Senior Applications Engineer

Location:

Hybrid, Iselin, NJMedidata follows a hybrid office policy in which employees who are hired for an in-person position are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week following Company policy.

About our Company:

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster.

A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at  Listen to our latest podcast, from Dreamers to Disruptors, and follow us at ut the Team:

Software Applications Engineer(s) with 5+ years’ experience building cloud based web services. We work mainly in Ruby on Rails, but we’re interesting in finding high quality software engineers using other object-oriented languages. You’ll need to demonstrate a passion for your craft, be self-motivated and eager to engage in high impact, challenging, engineering problems while continuously raising the standard of quality in our products and services in a full solutions-oriented PaaS environment.  

Responsibilities:

Develop new functionality for the product

Improve and refactor test automation frameworks

Implement new test cases and test step definitions

Support, Debug, and troubleshoot complex issues, assist with root-cause analysis, and provide solutions

Define automation test strategy, structure, and methodology

Analyze use cases and test scenarios in conjunction with Business and Software Quality Assurance Analysts Capability to develop scalable, highly performant code Works collaboratively as part of the development team with product managers, UI engineers and UX designers, in an agile environment

Ability to debug and analyze issues in a distributed SOA environment to find root causes and make technical impact assessments.

Can thrive working in a fast paced dynamic environmentA desire to stay current with new technologies and engineering concepts

Strong presentation and communication skills, including development of service contracts

Your

Competencies:

Basic understanding of clinical research (pharma, device and/or biotech sectors) and of Clinical Research SaaS technology

Able to demonstrate good verbal/written communication combined with some organizational skills

Exhibits time management skills combined with strong collaboration and team-building awareness

Experience in supporting project teams and meeting project timelines would be advantageous

Self-motivated and able to assume responsibility in a professional manner

Can demonstrate some computing skills and has experience with MS Office suite, Word, Excel and Power Point Your

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree in a computer science or Software development related field or equivalent experience5+ years C#.NET, ASP.NET Webforms and/or MVC and Microsoft SQL5+ years experience with Object Oriented analysis and design1+ years using AI software development tools i.e. Github Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, etc. Plus ChatGPT, Gemini,Copilot, etc. to accelerate development and your work1+ years experience with Docker containers / kubernetes

Ability to effectively critique other's code in Pull Requests Capacity to refactor code

Experience with unit test…