Staff Software Engineer, Castor
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Offers Employee Stock Option Plan
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Clinical trials platform
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Clinical trials platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Employee Stock Option Plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve the world’s healthcare challenges with research data.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of software development experience
- You are a self-starter who can work independently and navigate environments with low structure, you have the heart of an entrepreneur
- You enjoy tackling challenging software architecture problems and are equally comfortable designing and implementing solutions
- You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment across the team
- You deliver software efficiently while maintaining high engineering standards and making deliberate technology choices
- You actively share expertise through design discussions, documentation, examples, and mentoring other engineers
- You bring an analytical and creative approach to building applications from the ground up
- Extensive experience with modern-day Python and its ecosystem
- Experience with messaging patterns, event-driven architectures, and integrating with external systems
- Deep understanding and experience with asynchronous programming patterns
- Proven experience with cloud applications (GCP) and a working knowledge of Kubernetes
- Proven experience (2+ years) with using AI tooling and workflows to deliver high quality production grade code suitable for regulated environments
- A passion for building AI applications and using AI assistants
- A commitment to high code quality, comprehensive testing, operational robustness, and thorough code reviews
- Familiarity with data pipelines or ETL processes (though you are not a dedicated Data Engineer)
- While not required, experience within life sciences, healthtech, or e-clinical products is a significant plus
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer (AI) in our Catalyst team you will be a key driver in building and scaling our AI-powered applications. You will work closely with other engineers to develop and implement innovative solutions
- As part of your role you will also take part in our on-call rotation
Our take
Castor’s cloud-based clinical data management platform allows clinical trials to be carried out faster and in a more decentralised and patient-focused manner. Some of the biggest roadblocks to successful clinical trials are the length of time they can take, a lack of diversity in participants, and a simple shortage of trial subjects. Castor’s tech allows researchers to overcome these obstacles by more easily capturing and integrating data.
Castor, along with other med tech startups like Thread and Florence garnered praise during 2020 as a lot of medical research transitioned to virtual. In a clinical trials market that’s worth over $40 billion worldwide and still growing, the fact that Castor counts the WHO in its customer base is encouraging.
Backed by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital, Castor is aiming to use its funding round to continue product development, data gathering, and increase its manpower, with a view to expanding operations beyond the US and into Asia.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.6m
Company benefits
- Unlimited annual leave, plus national holidays per location. Minimum of 25 PTO days per year to be taken.
- Access to Calm App
- Quarterly downtime weeks
- Bi-weekly virtual meditation sessions
- Virtual company events
- Sleeping courses
- A ‘wellbeing boost slack channel
- Access to a company coach
- A 24/7 accessible ‘getting things done’ workshop
- An annual €750 credit allowance in Learnerbly
- An annual €750 (or the currency equivalent) to spend on professional development
- Quarterly alignment cycle promoting open feedback through Leapsome
- Access to Appical which supports an amazing remote onboarding journey
- Ensuring you have the best possible remote working setup
- Work remotely or from a Castor office location near you
- A focus on agile and flexible working
- A Mac or Dell laptop
- Personal IT support and setup on your first day
- Access to professional tools including G-Drive, Zoom, Miro, Slack, Confluence, ProductBoard, Figma, Jira, and Asana
- Internal communication and meeting guidelines to support asynchronous communication
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Derk Arts
(Founder & CEO)Has over fifteen years of experience in medicine, research and technology.
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