Staff Engineer

What We Do:

Florence software advances cures by helping the world's most important research sites do their best work. Our solutions are now used by over 30,000 research teams in 70 countries around the world—we're the most widely deployed site workflow tool in the industry. By the end of the decade, we'll double the pace at which new medicines get to market by doubling the output of trial site teams. To date, we were named a Deloitte Fast 50 business, G2 Category Leader, an Inc. & AJC best place to work, and an Inc. 5000 company five years in a row.

At Florence, we are committed to make the world a better place by accelerating research while providing an environment for our employees where they can be happy in their lives, enjoy their jobs, and grow.

What You'll Bring to The Team:

We seek talented Staff engineer to build the future for clinical trials by contributing new products in the Florence™ platform.

You will:

• Be a team player: contribute to our culture, invent new ways to address industry needs, criticize constructively, and help create a world-changing company
• Manage all aspects of the software life cycle (Requirements gathering, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, and Support)
• Build modular components and modules in Angular and Nodejs
• Write automated tests to foster effective, reusable, and flexible code
• Implement security and data protection features
• Assist in hiring as team grows
• Develop and build process improvements to increase dev velocity
• Engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives
• Own multiple and/or complex projects
• Articulate the root cause of problems, define trade-offs, and collaborate across the team to resolve issues
• Lead the architectural design and technical specifications for software projects, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture within the team and support code reviews
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to ensure smooth collaboration within R&D
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including system architecture diagrams, API documentation, and coding guidelines
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring that software applications meet or exceed performance expectations
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, and apply this knowledge to improve our software development processes
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning among team members

An Ideal Candidate is/has:

• Proficient in software architecture patterns and best practices with 10+ years of experience
• A track record of shipping large products that perform at scale
• Passionate about creating high-quality, flexible code
• Expertise in Node.js or Angular
• Proficient in AWS
• Proficient with using modern AI coding tools: Claude Code, Cursor
• Proficient in HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap 3
• Proficient with Git and GitHub/BitBucket
• Deep expertise in design patterns for code and architecture 7+ years
• Excellent technical communication skills
• Proficient with JWT user authentication
• Strong understanding of UX best practices
• Strong understanding of UI design principles
• 3 + year of Leadership experience

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with Hapijs
• Experience with Microservices and/or Service-Oriented-Architecture
• Familiarity with OWASP security principles
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB), specifically performance, modularization, and maintainability
• Experience with Continuous Integration/ Deployment

What's in it for you?

• Do well. We offer exceptional salary + fun remote activities, the PC setup of your choice as well as medical insurance.
• Do good. We insist that health technology is the highest calling for software development. We pride ourselves on working on something bigger than ourselves; helping advance cures and therapies
• Enjoy. Our office is in Belgrade and we offer a hybrid work environment

Florence Healthcare supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical disability, or any other protected class.

Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Florence Healthcare, please go directly to our Careers Page. Florence Healthcare will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company. In addition, Florence Healthcare will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team. All communications with Florence Healthcare employees will only be sent from @florencehc.com email addresses.