Principal Software Engineer

ClinicalMind is a full-service medical communications company. We help life sciences clients, including biopharmaceuticals, communicate effectively and improve the lives of patients who they serve. ClinicalMind has extensive experience in specialty therapeutic areas. We offer unique, cutting-edge live and digital initiatives designed to integrate, support, and enhance our client objectives and drive additional engagement with key customers. 

ClinicalMind's talented team defines our company. Anyone who works in this business knows that their success is based on one thing above all else - the people. We treat our employees with the same respect we give our clients. Come join a growing medical communications agency! 

The role of the Principal Engineer: You will be given the autonomy to lead, architect, design, and develop innovative cloud-native solutions to delight our customers. You will collaborate with engineers, enabling the growth of a highly scalable SaaS Platform.

Responsibilities

1. Designs and implements highly scalable, secure, resilient, loosely coupled, cloud-native software architectures. Enabling test-driven development, behavior-driven development, and continuous delivery.
2. Recommends and continuously reviews software engineering architecture and best practices.
3. Conducts development in .Net 6+, c#, Microservices, Azure while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle. From concept, architecture, and design to testing, developing, and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
4. Serving as a peer leader, encouraging a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.
5. Collaborates with Product Owners/Product Managers for high-level feasibility assessments, contributing insight to solution design, ensuring both the success of the product and adherence to enterprise architecture principles.
6. Actively contributes to Product ideation and development.
7. Leads design reviews, ensures designs are following specifications and delivers superior engineering outcomes.
8. Writes well-designed, testable, efficient code.
9. Supports continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
10. Hones individual engineering competency using the available enablement programs.
11. Engages in team leadership and people management including talent acquisition.
12. Has an AGILE mindset, focused on delivering value and continuous improvement.
13. Performs these and other duties as assigned in adherence to the standards and expectations of the company.

Qualifications

1. Minimum 8 years of experience in ASP .Net, ASP .Net MVC, Multi -Tier Architecture, Micro services, Entity data model, Restful services.
2. Minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure services such as Kubernetes, Ingress, Batch, Functions, Web Apps, SSO, Active Directory, Blob Storage, Service Fabric, Service Bus Queues, Notification Services
3. Proficiency in domain-drive design.
4. Hands-on experience refactoring and architecting monolith to microservices. Experience with strangulation techniques.
5. Deep understanding of design patterns.
6. Hands-on experience in the development of RESTFUL web services & microservices
7. Blazor framework experience is a bonus.
8. Working experience in Azure databases such as SQL Database, Database for MySQL, or Database for PostgreSQL OR working experience in database and storage technologies such as Oracle, MS SQL server, Redis, etc.
9. Understanding of digital transformation and cloud-native application development, 12-factor compliance cloud solutions.
10. Experienced in TDD (Test Driven Development) and or BDD (Behavior Driven Development).
11. Deep understanding of DevOps concepts and process and CICD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, or Bamboo.
12. Expert understanding of Agile methodologies.
13. Understanding of security and identity concepts and familiarity with authentication, single-sign-on, directory services, etc.
14. Excellent communication skills and collaboration with a cross-functional team in an AGILE setting.

Position Qualifications and Requirements:

• Travel: Minimal travel will be required to: a) clients for customer support/maintenance, b) major medical conferences both in the US and internationally as identified as important by clients or where CM is conducting a supported function/meeting/activity within the designated specialties as well as other medical education conferences and meetings as required; c) to other locales for training or other corporate meetings.

• Location: New York, NY or 100% Remote

• Personal, Professional Attributes and Knowledge:

The ideal candidate will be an intelligent, quick, forward, strategic-thinking, multi-tasking individual who is team-oriented, collegial, and proactive. He/She will make sound decisions based on a combination of seeking input from managers, good judgment, and intuition.

#LI-Remote/hybrid - flexible schedule available