Senior Engineer
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Software Developer with 6+ years of software development experience to design, develop, and deliver scalable software applications using modern web, backend, and database technologies. The ideal candidate should have strong full-stack development experience, a product mindset, deep Python expertise, good Node.js exposure, technical leadership skills, and the ability to mentor junior developers.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications.
- Build advanced frontend components using React.js.
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python.
- Work with Node.js for backend services, APIs, and integration needs.
- Design, query, and optimize solutions using Oracle Database.
- Define application architecture, coding standards, and reusable development patterns.
- Lead API design and integration using REST/JSON services.
- Mentor and guide junior developers.
- Perform code reviews and ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Troubleshoot complex application, performance, database, and integration issues.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to Agile planning, estimation, release, and deployment activities.
- Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/ TypeScript.
- Advanced experience with React.js, functional components, hooks, and state management.
- Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and UI performance optimization.
- Experience consuming and integrating RESTful APIs.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python for backend development, API development, scripting, or automation.
- Good working experience with Node.js for backend services and integrations.
- Strong understanding of REST API design, integration, error handling, and security.
- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, logging, and secure coding practices.
- Strong knowledge of Oracle Database.
- Strong SQL skills for querying, joins, data validation, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of database design, stored procedures, indexing, and optimization concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot application and database integration issues.
- Git / Version Control.
- Agile / Scrum methodology.
- CI/CD pipeline awareness.
- Code review and quality assurance practices.
- Application debugging, logging, and performance monitoring.
- Ability to guide development teams on coding standards and best practices.
- Experience with Oracle APEX.
- Experience evaluating and guiding the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, or LLM-based IDE extensions for code generation, review, refactoring, documentation, and testing.
- Experience modernizing or migrating from legacy platforms (including Oracle APEX or similar low-code systems).
- Exposure to cloud platforms.
- Experience leading technical design discussions.
- Knowledge of enterprise application architecture.
Qualifications
- Minimum 6+ years of relevant software development experience.
- Prior experience mentoring developers or leading technical deliverables preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-organizing, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently.
- A mindset oriented toward progress, modernization, and continuous improvement.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
http://www.syneoshealth.com
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
