Staff Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $143.6k - $277.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Advarra

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1983

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

Healthcare • Consulting • SaaS

Advarra is a provider of integrated regulatory oversight and clinical trial technology, combining independent IRB review and compliance services with enterprise SaaS platforms (including Braid, OnCore, Clinical Conductor, eReg, and eSource). The company delivers operational intelligence, AI-powered protocol design and automation, site collaboration, study startup and enrollment tools, and strategic enablement services to sponsors, CROs, research sites, and institutions to improve efficiency, compliance, and patient safety across the clinical trial lifecycle.

📋 Description

• Drive technical strategy and architecture within one or more product lines • Own end-to-end architecture for scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems • Translate architectural direction into actionable designs and implementations • Lead complex, cross-functional, high-impact technical initiatives spanning teams and components • Establish and reinforce design best practices, patterns, and standards • Partner with architects to implement and refine architectural direction • Resolve complex technical challenges involving ambiguity, scale, and cross-team dependencies • Lead product-line-level design reviews • Influence prioritization and technical trade-offs • Mentor and elevate staff and senior engineers • Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and operational gaps • Improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence • Guide technology evaluation and adoption • Champion security strategy and remediation based on security scans and penetration testing • Collaborate with Product, QA, Support, and Cloud teams • Act as primary technical authority for the product line • Architect reliable data pipelines with data contracts, schema evolution, lineage, versioning, and idempotent processing • Build and productionize information extraction pipelines, agentic AI applications, and automated evaluation frameworks • Establish observability for data quality, pipeline reliability, model performance, and inference cost • Optimize model selection and inference orchestration for quality, latency, throughput, and cost • Partner with Data Science, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to establish reusable engineering patterns and shared tooling

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, related discipline, or equivalent work experience • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior-level roles with increasing technical leadership responsibility • Proven experience designing and owning architecture for complex, mission-critical distributed systems • Deep expertise in modern backend and/or web technologies, including Python, Java, Rails, .NET, frontend frameworks, distributed systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and databases • Experience guiding technology decisions • Experience mentoring and developing senior-level engineers and influencing engineering best practices • Preferred: Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or regulated industries such as HIPAA or FDA environments • Preferred: Working knowledge of clinical trial processes and medical informatics • Preferred: Hands-on AWS application design and delivery using cloud-native services • Preferred: Designing for scale, high availability, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant systems • Preferred: Observability practices including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting • Preferred: Production data pipelines and distributed data processing systems • Preferred: Automated testing, CI/CD, cloud deployment, and operational monitoring • Preferred: Taking AI/ML workflows from prototypes into reliable production systems • Preferred: Data architecture and modeling, schema design and evolution, data quality management, and data lineage

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable bonus eligibility • Health coverage • Paid holidays