**This candidate must have authorization to work in the U.S full time. This position does NOT offer sponsorship now or in the near future at this time."
M3 is the global leader in digital solutions in healthcare. We work with a range of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and charities; services provided to these sectors include market research, medical education programs, promotional programs, clinical development, job recruitment and clinic appointment services. M3 has grown by more than 20% year-on-year for the past 15 years, achieving over 1 billion dollars in revenue annually.
Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3's mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:
- Named in Fortune's 2020 ‘Future 50' list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
- Ranked in Forbes' 2020 Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies
- M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
- Listed in Forbes' ‘Asia's 200 Best Over a Billion' in 2019
- In 2020 M3 founded the ‘M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund' and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives
M3's legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organizations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.
Due to our continued growth, we are hiring for a Software Engineer at MDLinx, an M3 company.
About the Business Unit:
Through our award-winning digital platform, MDLinx.com, we provide healthcare professionals with the clinical education, training, research, and career opportunities they need to succeed.
We are well-established in our market with a loyal following, high quality offerings, and over 15 years of experience and history in the digital space. Due to our continued growth and expansion, we are currently hiring for a Software Engineer for our physician platform who will develop and improve MDLinx.com, M3's award-winning service that helps to inform, educate, and save time for busy physicians and other health care professionals. With the opportunity to receive frequent feedback from users via regular interviews, develop product enhancements and new services, participating in all parts of the process from architecture and design to development and production deployment to monitoring, reporting, and iterative enhancement.
The Software Engineer will use their knowledge of React, Typescript, and GraphQL on the frontend, and/or Python, Flask, Docker, and Kubernetes on the backend, to deliver services that help reduce the burden of keeping up with new medical research and taxing overworked health care professionals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prototype, design and develop software services for doctors, supporting desktop and mobile devices
- Work closely with a cross-functional team including engineers, product, and design staff to develop a great user experience and achieve product objectives
- Develop APIs and API clients as necessary to connect frontend and backend services, third-party services, etc.
- Review and help to improve other engineers' code and application designs
- Understand business objectives and (physician) user needs, and actively work to improve the effectiveness and usability of our products
- Write unit, functional, and end-to-end tests
- Respond to and troubleshoot production issues
Requirements:
- Two or more years of experience designing, implementing and maintaining production web applications full time
- Expertise with at least one server-side web framework and programming language
- Expertise with Javascript and/or ideally Typescript, and at least 1 year of experience with React
- Solid understanding and knowledge of web protocols and technologies such as HTTP, HTML5, CSS, etc.
- Ability and desire to quickly pick up new technologies and frameworks
- Experience working as part of a team to develop software, preferably using an agile process
- Excellent written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year university in computer science or equivalent work experience and foundational knowledge of software engineering
- Experience working with containers (Docker), infrastructure automation technologies (ideally Terraform), continuous integration and continuous deployment (CircleCI), Kubernetes
- Expertise developing mobile applications
- Experience with development using IaaS platforms, preferably AWS and/or GCP
- Data analysis experience and expertise
Benefits:
A career opportunity with M3 USA offers competitive wages, and benefits such as:
- Health and Dental
- Life, Accident and Disability Insurance
- Prescription Plan
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401k Plan and Match
- Paid Holidays and Vacation
- Sick Days and Personal Days
*M3 reserves the right to change this job description to meet the business needs of the organization