Position: Middle/Senior JavaScript BED
Company: Whirrcrew
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
We are a global pharmaceutical company producing vaccines and medicine for serious diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and other. In our Prague centre, you'll have the unique opportunity to experience a digital revolution in healthcare and ultimately make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. We develop software to support research, manufacturing and sales of those medicines.

Our system consists of an iPadOS app written in Swift and a React Web portal both powered by a shared backend APIs running on Node.js. The app is the primary interface for our users in the field and is highly valued by them. Our team is now looking for a new colleague who will focus on backend JavaScript development, with will to act as a senior JavaScript guru that can helps us predict and solve difficult technology problems as well as fight accumulated technical debt. You won't be just a coder, we expect you to participate on the design, documentation and shipping of the solutions as well.

We are handling sensitive data in a highly regulated environment which means we have to keep focus on quality and compliance and this brings unique challenges. At the same time, we are agile and we do have opportunities to use modern technologies. We have almost fully transitioned to TypeScript. We have production monitoring and a CI infrastructure for building and testing the whole stack. We are continuously migrating old components from on-prem to AWS cloud.

Additionally, it would be nice to have some experience with non-authoritative leadership, mentoring and coaching of team-members around you, contributing to the whole product strategy and various aspects of our ways of working. We believe that some level of natural leadership goes hand in hand with your seniority and spans beyond regular technical topics.

You will get an opportunity to learn a lot about Clinical Research, software development in highly regulated environment and to work on a long-running product that matters.

YOU WILL DO:
- Backend software development in modern JavaScript and TypeScript
- Work on the whole backend, from MSSQL database to REST/GraphQL APIs
- Study the details of our backend technology to understand its advantages, risks and pitfalls
- Learn design and architecture of a larger enterprise system
- Plan sprints that contain mix of new features, bugs, technical improvements and even discovery topics
- Work with Git (Bitbucket), Jenkins pipelines, Linux
- Contribute and lead one of our working groups that drive strategic initiatives such as quality, automation or cloud transition
- Mentor your colleagues, lead them on the path of clean and maintainable code
- Evolve our JS stack to be more robust and up-to-date with today's best practices
- Help us work around the current JS stack pitfalls that limit our ability to solve production issues efficiently

YOU HAVE:
- Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, SQS)
- Experience with JS and React.js
- Good knowledge of PM2
- Groovy scripting for Jenkins pipelines
- Experience with documentation and process automation

WORKFLOW:
- Daily routines - daily scrum, bi-weekly planning, refinement, review and retrospective
- We work with our stakeholders and partners around the world (U.S. stakeholders, APAC support)
- We are masters of our time - time flexibility goes both ways
- Diverse team where majority of communication happens in English and Czech
- Cool vibes in the team 😎

WE OFFER:
Competitive salary
Position in leading global healthcare company
Global projects, international environment
Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
Representative office