Software Engineer

About Chemaxon

Chemaxon is an industry-leading cheminformatics software company helping early-stage drug discovery and chemistry research for more than 20 years. Our clients are top pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotech startups, and leading academic institutions.

We are agile, innovative and friendly, offering compelling opportunities for frequent collaboration and cross-training with teammates and stakeholders.

We have been acquired by Certara, a US-based model-informed drug development services and software company. We are in an exciting time of organizational and business growth, so now is the perfect time to join our team!

About Certara

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

About the team

The Stratos team provides authentication and authorization platform for Chemaxon SaaS products, extending OKTA as IdP. Stratos is responsible for licensing in Chemaxon, providing licensing management platform for issuing licenses, and license validation in the products as well. Stack and profile are diverse in Stratos. We maintain multitenant service, and develop libs integrated to higher level products. We develop frontend, backend, IaC, pipelines, etc.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a highly skilled Java developer to work on various projects
• You will have an opportunity to work with a wide range of technologies in a variety of areas.
• You will be able to design a system using your knowledge in object oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, applying SOLID principles, TDD and design patterns.
• Good, clean, maintainable code is important for us.
• You will be involved in ideation, concept creation, where you will present your ideas using your communication & English skills as well.
• As a team member, you will become responsible for the team’s product, which means involvement in technical support for our clients.
• You will be responsible for delivering SaaS solutions on AWS infrastructure, therefore we value experience and knowledge in technologies like AWS, Terraform, Docker and GitLab CI.
• This job includes on-call duty. It’s split among all the developers in your team on a planned weekly basis which is foreseeable for a month. During the past year we experienced that the number of the alerts is very low.

Qualifications

• BSc or higher degree in Computer Sciences or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4-5+ years of experience as a Java software engineer, ideally having worked on SaaS products previously
• Good general programming background (like OO design, TDD, design patterns, etc.)
• Experience with cloud-based environments (ideally AWS)
• Experience with SQL databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Good command of English
• Good work ethic, productive, proactive behavior
• Ability to work in a team and also to solve problems alone
• Willingness to work with a variety of technologies
• Willingness to learn continuously

Bonus skills that will help you hit the ground running

• Experience with Spring, Groovy
• Experience with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins/GitLabCI
• Experience with Cloud / SaaS solutions ter
• Experience in DevSecOps
• Knowledge of Security principles

What we offer

• Hybrid-way of working (8 days/month home office)
• Private health insurance (Medicover)
• Daily free entry into Life1 fitness clubs
• We work with global Top500 companies (R&D) and leading academic institutions, giving you a chance to gain insights into these dynamically evolving industries.
• Inspiring working environment - leisure and recreation area, playing corner for children, social programs, innovation days
• You will be a valued member of a creative and supportive agile team
• Everyday use of English in a multicultural environment

Location: Budapest, Váci Greens Office Park

For some info on Chemaxon, you can check out these videos:

• a shorter one about what we do in a nutshell (~1.5 min)
• and one about the Budapest HQ (~30 min)

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.