Software Engineer - Technology R&D

Want to do the Best Work of Your Life?

Working at Signant Health puts you at the very heart of the world’s most exciting sector - a high-growth, dynamic company in an extraordinary industry. We’re radically changing the clinical trial landscape, driving change through the technology and innovations we create and the services we deliver to our customers.

Where do you fit in?

We are strengthening our development capabilities and looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing R&D team in South Africa.

Want to join the Best Team of Your Life?

We’re looking for people who are excited by the potential to make a difference in the world. You don’t need to have a clinical background to thrive at Signant. You need to be decisive, open to celebrating mistakes, able to communicate transparently and inclusively, and someone your team can count on. Most of all you need to be yourself!

As part of our team, your main responsibilities will be to: 

• Perform design, implementation and maintenance of product modules/sub-systems according to architecture, guidelines and good software engineering practice;
• Take responsibility for product’s usability by creating user interfaces, creating use cases, and implementing prototypes and conducting usability tests;
• Prepare technical documentation of product, creates user interface guidelines and conducts reviews;
• Produce design documentation that complies with regulations;
• Take responsibility for the unit testing and integration testing for the sprint coding;
• Perform bug verification, release testing and support for assigned products; Researches problems discovered by Validation or Product Support and develops solutions to the problems;
• Research and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues;
• Other responsibilities will be assigned as required.

You’ll need to bring: 

• M.Sc/B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems;
• 3 - 5 years of software development experience;
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal;
• APIs: REST, GraphQL;
• DB: RDBMS (SqlServer/Oracle / PostgreSQL and Non-RDMBS (MongoDB);
• Monitoring: Dynatrace or similar;
• Virtualization/Cloud: Docker, K8s;
• AWS Secrets Management;
• Architecture: Microservices;
• Specific programming knowledge (1 or more);
1. Backend Java: Java (Spring), Java EE, JUnit (or similar but willing to code in JAVA/Kotlin);
2. Python (AWS python Powertools a nice to have);
3. AWS (serverless / lambda / dynamodb / SQS)
4. Terraform / Cloud Formation;
• Build tools: Maven APIs: REST. 
• Jenkins CICD

Desirable:

• User-oriented approach to software development;
• Must be willing to expand the skills by learning other technologies as needed;
• Must be a team-oriented person with a “can do” attitude.

And finally, here are the ways of working that will help you succeed at Signant: 

• You enjoy problem-solving and have a constructive can-do attitude. 
• You’re motivated by working in a fast-growing global company. 
• You’re self-driven, active and want to continuously learn new things. 
• You like to share knowledge as a way to advance organisational learning. 

Does this sound like something you’d like to explore? Then we’d love to hear from you!
Please apply below.