Technical Lead - Content Engineering

Company: Norstella

Location: Remote, United States

Date Posted: Dec 4, 2024

Employment Type: Full Time

Job ID: R-744

Description

Why Norstella? Norstella unites market-leading companies that all have a shared goal of improving patient access. Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making.

Together, we help our clients:

• Assess the market need and competitive landscape

• Know precisely which drugs to prioritize in their portfolios

• Find out where the launch difficulties will be—before they’re difficulties

• Track and improve market access post-launch

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. At Norstella, we don’t just deliver information and insights. We deliver answers you can act on.

Job Description

Have you wondered how life saving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed and made available to patients in need? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted at a global scale? How governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug, and how a care provider determines the right treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could the next step in your career.

Reporting into Senior Director, the Technical Lead will be responsible for leading and managing a team of developers and engineers to deliver high-quality software products or services. In addition to technical expertise, the Technical Lead should have experience managing people, providing leadership, and creating a positive team culture. The Technical lead will also work with external developers responsible for the development and subsequent support of the various platform services components underpinning all the content applications across Norstella. As part of a large technology group, the Technical Lead will work with product management, architecture and other software engineering teams in support of the product development roadmap.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with great communication skills, deep experience in software engineering, and most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Build strong engineering team and culture.

• Work on projects with significant complexity

• Work as a close partner with product / project managers and designers to understand client requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

• Shape the technical and strategic direction of engineering squads

• Have a strong sense of ownership of the solutions that your team works on

• Be willing to work with and invest yourself in learning new technologies, programming languages, databases etc.

• Communicate effectively

• Be an "agile" person. You desire a fast-paced dynamic work environment

• Review existing technologies for suitability and make recommendations for change

• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality software applications using Python, Java / Spring Boot, Typescript, React, AWS, and Database technologies

• Collaborate with developers on the team to ensure code quality and consistency

• Help Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and non-production environments

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our coding practices and standards

Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study, or equivalent experience

• 3+ years of people management experience.

• 9+ years of experience in programming with Java/Python.

• 4+ years of experience working with Spring Boot, Spring Batch Frameworks

• 3+ years of experience working with FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python web framework

• 3+ years in building highly performant and scalable web applications using modern tech stacks – HTML5/CSS3/React JS/TypeScript

• 2+ years of experience with experience working with cloud technology (preferably AWS), and various AWS services like S3, API Gateway, App Sync

• Expertise in AWS Cloud/AWS UI technology stack

• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks

• 2+ years of experience in Agile development and delivery – Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban methodologies

• 2+ years of experience with modern relational and NoSQL databases (Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB is a plus)

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and architecting backend microservices with RESTful API and API security frameworks, service-oriented and/or microservices architecture

• 4+ years of experience using modern build and deployment tools such as Jenkins and Docker

• Experience with web scraping frameworks

• Experience with Data Structures, Algorithms, and general Computer Science concepts

• Experience within pharma/healthcare sector is a plus

The guiding principles for success at Norstella:

01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First

We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality

We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.

03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace

We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.

04: Resilience, Mettle, Perserverance

We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from mis-steps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.

05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.

What we offer you:

• Medical and prescription drug benefits

• Health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts

• Dental plans and vision benefits

• Basic life and AD&D Benefits

• 401k retirement plan

• Short and Long Term Disability

• Education benefits

• Maternity leave

• Paid parental leave

• Paid time off

Norstella provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.