Director, Front End Web Engineering - Remote

Company: Medable, Inc
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Company Description

Medable's mission is to get effective therapies to patients faster. We provide an end-to-end, cloud-based platform with a flexible suite of tools that allows patients, healthcare providers, clinical research organizations and pharmaceutical sponsors to work together as a team in clinical trials. Our solutions enable more efficient clinical research, more effective healthcare delivery, and more accurate precision and predictive medicine. Our target audiences are patients, providers, principal investigators, and innovators who work in healthcare and life sciences.

Our vision is to accelerate the path to human discovery and medical cures. We are passionate about driving innovation and empowering consumers. We are proactive, collaborative, self-motivated learners, committed, bold and tenacious. We are dedicated to making this world a healthier place.

Job Description

• Lead, coach and mentor the frontend web engineering team, through product discovery that helps identify and break our product goals into technical projects.
• Empowering the engineers and dev leads in your teams to succeed by identifying how to measure success, and mentor them on how to achieve those goals.
• Building and maintaining a partnership with your Product Management and Design peers.
• Lead the development of internal javascript component libraries
• Leadership in developing functional and appealing web- and mobile-based web applications based on usability
• Write functional requirement documents and specifications
• Assist back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Other duties as assigned
  Qualifications
  
  • A total of 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years of experience as a software engineering leader or a combination of education and experience in this field
  • Experienced in recruiting, hiring, and growing effective software teams.
  • Strong front end architecture skills to drive our solutions forward
  • Proven ability to build high-quality, high-ownership development teams, including recruiting of bar-raising frontend software engineers, dev leads, and hands-on engineering managers
  • Strong understanding of how to design an effective engineering organization and its workstreams
  • Proficient understanding of React and TypeScript
  • Knowledge of architecting large single page applications
  • Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
  • Knowledge of GraphQL and working with a React GraphQL framework is a plus
  • Knowledge with Kotlin Multi-platform is also a plus
    Education, Certification and Licenses:
    
    • Bachelor's or Master's Degree degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
      Additional Information
      
      Medable, Inc provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
      
      U.S. employees and contractors, and International workers with travel to the U.S. must have a willingness and ability to provide proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date. All strongly held beliefs, religious, medical, and other legally recognized exemptions regarding vaccination status will be considered.
      

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