Senior Front-End Engineer, ReactJs

Senior Front-end Software Engineer (ReactJs)

Context

IQVIA, with its 86,000 employees worldwide, is the result of the merger between IMS and QUINTILES. IQVIA has built its leadership around data on pharmaceutical consumption in the city and in hospitals, giving its pharmaceutical customers a precise view of the dynamics of their market. 

At IQVIA France, the 70-people-strong Data & AI business unit is tasked with enriching our data offering and developing new AI driven web applications for our customers.

Missions

We are looking to strengthen the R&D team to develop new offers and innovative health applications for our B2B customers (pharmaceutical laboratories, pharmacists, practitioners...). The current team of 13 engineers is composed of software engineers (front and back), data experts (data scientists, data architects) and is expected to continue growing in 2024. This team is closely working with a team of 5 product managers.

The mission of the R&D team includes :

• creation and maintenance of data production pipelines (drug delivery data extrapolation models, Covid vaccination statistics in open data)
• creation of innovative access and analysis applications for these data
• design and building webapps for customers, offering high-value functionalities (ROI estimation of a media campaign, assistance for setting the business objectives of new products...)
• design and operation of support tools for other teams (in the form of dashboards for example)
• technology watch (e.g. use of synthetic data in health algorithms)

The senior front-end Engineer will work with the R&D team and product managers on the development of innovative web applications. As a member of the team, he/she will participate in many decisions regarding recruitment, choice of development stack, definition of the roadmap.

Responsabilities

• Work collaboratively and efficiently across functional teams in a fast-paced startup-like environment.
• High standard of engineering quality through code reviews and unit tests.
• Extend our application to handle an expanding set of features.
• Design, extend, and implement UI/UX 
• Participate in product new feature design (ShapeUp method)

Expected skills

• At least a solid first technical experience in a challenging environment (e.g. 3/4+ years in a startup or a software editor)
• You love building and operating web applications
• Strong coding skills in front-end ReactJs (TypeScript)
• Good practice of agile methodologies (code reviews, continuous integration, Kanban, ShapeUp..)
• Willing to be part of a new tech squad, with everything to build
• Willing to help juniors to progress
• Good professional proficiency in French and English (written and spoken)
• Experience in a backend language (Python or Java) is a plus
• Experience in the health domain is a plus

Technical environment

You will have the opportunity to choose the technical stack with the development manager. The team skills are as follows:

• Backend : Python (FastAPI...), SQL
• Front-end : React, Redux, TailwindCSS
• Infrastructure : Snowflake, Airflow, HDFS, Azure Cloud
• Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes...
• Data science: PyData stack (pandas / scikit-learn / scipy...)
• Software development tools: Git, Gitlab
• Knowledge of the following technologies is a plus: RabbitMq / Kafka, Elasticsearch.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com