Software Engineer

Encora is seeking a Software Engineer to support a large pharmaceutical company.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designing, coding, debugging, and supporting cloud-based applications
• Extending an existing AI platform for an enterprise consumption
• Performing unit, integration, and system testing
• Designing, implementing, and consuming RESTful web APIs
• Creating elegant user interface solutions
• Collaborating with fellow team members to help solve technical challenges they're facing
• Taking ownership of individual components within an application
• Complete in-depth peer code reviews following industry best practices to ensure that all code bases remain clean, maintainable, and efficient

Education and Years of Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer
• 5+ years of web development technologies and tools (HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks, Responsive Web Design, JavaScript frameworks, etc.)

Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:

• 5+ years of web development technologies and tools (HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks, Responsive Web Design, JavaScript frameworks, etc.)
• Proficient in object-oriented development and design patterns
• Extensive experience with React (or similar technologies such as Angular, TypeScript, Vue, or similar). Preference is React with Next.js and Tailwind CSS
• Strong experience in Python in building APIs using AWS services Lambda and API gateway.
• Established experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs using Node.js (or similar technologies such as C#/.NET Core and/or Java)
• Skillful in the use of serverless technologies with AWS Lambda (or similar technologies such as GCP Cloud Functions or Azure Functions)
• Experienced in Test-Driven Development, unit testing, and clean code
• Working knowledge of automation tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar
• Background in using JavaScript/TypeScript testing tools such as Karma, Jest, Protractor, Jasmine, and Mocha
• Superb written and oral communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, self-motivated and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to effectively work both autonomously as well as on a team

Additional Requirements:

• Consulting experience
• Knowledge of AI concepts including: RAG, custom prompting, agents, agentic workflow, prompt engineering
• Deep background working in an Agile methodology to develop software
• Knowledge of software architecture design patterns
• Proven ability to assist in leading small to medium sized development teams