About the Team

As a Senior Applications Engineer in Medidata's Platform organization, you'll help to modernize our architecture and support adoption of best practices throughout the company. You'll help to transform the Medidata Platform for customers, delivering mission-critical software that impacts internal and external teams.

You'll build tools and products that serve as foundational components for engineering and customer-facing services, improving the quality and scalability of our systems. While our projects span multiple primary services within the Platform, our mission remains constant - increase Medidata's velocity of innovation by raising quality across all teams while maintaining our transparent and trusting team culture.

Responsibilities

• Write, debug, and deploy frontend and backend code using a variety of programming languages and frameworks, including Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Guide architecture discussions and design decisions, with a focus on simplicity and maintainability.
• Bring a fresh perspective to current systems and architectures, identifying opportunities for modernization and optimization
• Create maintainable code through refactoring, continuous integration, test automation, source code control, and review practices.
• Participate in Agile working practices such as daily stand-up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Advocate for transparency and knowledge sharing across the organization through regular blogs, reveals, and pull requests.
• Delight our users by delivering improvement from user feedback.
• Create clear, documentation that sets up other teams for self-guided success.
• Follow Medidata's Standard Operating Procedures to ensure all software meets regulatory and company requirements.
• You will be reporting to Manager, Engineering based in Tokyo.