Search Specialist

DocNexus is revolutionizing the global medical affairs & commercial ecosystem with search. We provide a next-generation data platform that simplifies searching through millions of insights, publications, clinical trials, payments, and social media data within seconds to identify healthcare professionals (HCPs), products, manufacturers, and healthcare systems. Leveraging AI-powered Knowledge Graphs, DocNexus assists life science organizations in finding the right key opinion leaders (KOL/DOLs) who play a crucial role in developing and bringing life-saving pharmaceutical products and medical devices to market. Backed by industry leaders such as Techstars, JP Morgan, Mass Challenge, and recognized as one of the Top 200 Most Innovative Startups by TechCrunch Disrupt, we are committed to transforming healthcare insights. We are seeking a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to the efficient development, deployment, and maintenance of our platform.

We are looking for a visionary Sr. Full Stack Engineering Lead who is passionate about building and leading our technology department. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background and experience in leading a team to drive innovation and growth. As Engineering Lead, you will oversee the development and dissemination of technology for external customers, vendors, and other clients to help improve and increase business.

Leadership and Strategy:

• Lead the engineering team and make strategic decisions regarding the technology stack, project management, and resource allocation.
• Establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of technological development.

Development:

• Develop and maintain the front-end and back-end of web applications.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.

Maintenance and Optimization:

• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continually work on optimizing the performance of different applications.

Security: Ensure the security of the web applications by integrating security best practices.

• Regularly update the system to protect against vulnerabilities.

Innovation:

• Research and implement new technologies and frameworks that can improve the performance and user experience of the platform.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies and trends that can potentially impact the company's products and services.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with other departments to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners, management, investors, and employees.

Project Management:

• Oversee and support project planning, deadlines, and progress.
• Ensure that the technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.

Mentoring and Team Building:

• Foster a culture of innovation and excellence within the technology team.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members.

Front-End Development:

• HTML/CSS: For structuring and styling the web pages.
• JavaScript/TypeScript: Core scripting language, along with frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.js for dynamic and responsive user interfaces.

Back-End Development:

• Python: Using frameworks like Django or Flask for server-side logic.
• Node.js: JavaScript runtime environment for building scalable network applications.
• Ruby on Rails: A server-side web application framework written in Ruby.

Database Management:

• SQL Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL for structured data storage.
• NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, Cassandra for unstructured data or specific use cases.

Server Management:

• Nginx or Apache: For server and reverse proxy functionalities.
• Docker: For containerizing applications and ensuring consistency across multiple development and release cycles.
• Kubernetes: For automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers.

DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• Git: For version control.
• Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI: For continuous integration and deployment.
• Ansible, Chef, or Puppet: For configuration management.

Cloud Services:

• AWS: For various cloud services like computing, database storage, content delivery, etc.
• Serverless Frameworks: Such as AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions for running code without provisioning or managing servers.

Security:

• OAuth, JWT: For secure authentication mechanisms.
• SSL/TLS: For secure data transmission.
• Various Encryption Techniques: To safeguard sensitive data.

Performance Monitoring and Testing:

• Selenium, Jest, or Mocha: For automated testing.
• New Relic or Datadog: For performance monitoring.

Data Science and Analytics:

• Python Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, or SciPy for data manipulation and analysis.
• Machine Learning Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch for implementing machine learning models.

Other Technologies:

• GraphQL: For querying and manipulating data efficiently.
• WebSockets: For real-time bi-directional communication between web clients and servers.

• Exp- 3+ yrs
• Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
• At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
• Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
• Experience in TDD/BDD is required
• Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
• Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
• Understanding of AKKA and Play framework

• Skills -
  • Core (Must understand and conversant to code on at least two of these technologies)
    • Java 8+/ Spring Boot/Microservices
    • Spark
    • Scala
    • Angular
    • Javascript
    • ElasticSearch
    • Graph Database (Tinkerpop/Janusgraph)
    • MySQL/Oracle
    • AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Secondary
    • Version Control - Jira/Bitbucket/Git
    • Build Tools - Maven/SBT/Gradle
    • Security
    • Agile/Scrum methodology
    • Should be able to create and review designs/documents
    • Must be able to clearly articulate situations, problems and communicate ideas and solutions

• Must understand System Analysis and Design with understanding of Algorithms (implementation in any language is okay)
• Design optimal and performant solutions for product backlog items spanning technologies
• Work with Product Owner/Project Manager and UX lead for providing LoE estimates for Jira backlog items
• Lead and own delivery or work items (for self and team)
• 80% hands-on work items (self), 20% team responsibility
• Must be willing to learn new technologies, processes, business functions, (we measure this by OKR’s)

Qualifications and Skills

• You will be responsible for design, development and testing of Products
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

• Prepare and produce releases of software components

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• Some of the technologies you will be working on: Core Java, Solr, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic search, Clustering, Text Mining, NLP, Mahout and Lucene etc.