Redica Systems is a technology company using data, analytics, and expertise to deliver meaningful insights to quality and safety professionals in the Life Sciences industry. By applying artificial intelligence to large and disparate government datasets, we empower the champions of quality and safety with actionable data intelligence. Our customers rely on the Redica Platform to improve compliance, drive up efficiency, and build deeper institutional memory.  

Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA we recently raised a Series B round of financing, and are rapidly writing our next chapter. We currently serve over 200 customers in the pharma, medical device, and food industries, including 19 of the top 20 pharma companies and 9 of the 10 top medical device companies.

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We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team as we continue to develop the first-of-its-kind quality and regulatory intelligence (QRI) platform for the life science industry.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills as an individual contributor with experience in mentoring junior developers while maintaining a high bar of quality of the technical deliverables for the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy various back-end services/components and interfaces (APIs) for our internal data platform that powers all our data products
• Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists in solving complex data engineering & analytics problems and building the necessary support on the platform backend
• Conduct and participate in code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning
• Build Telemetry of our products and data
• Promote a culture of self-serve data analytics by minimizing technical barriers to data access

About You

• You effectively facilitate discussions and decision-making and win organizational buy-in for proposals
• Capable of leading projects spanning multiple teams to solve complex security, reliability, privacy, and compliance issues 
• Works on impactful unique issues driven by unclear factors; runs projects with extremely high business impact, risk, or ambiguity
• Consistently able to simplify projects, services, and processes; helps others break down and conceptualize complex problems
• Decisions have a direct impact on the long-term success or failure of multiple teams

• BS/MS in computer science or related field
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with object-oriented and/or functional programming
• Deep understanding of algorithms and data structures; Big-O complexity analysis
• Strong knowledge of Python & SQL
• Experience in building cloud-scale and micro/macro-services architectures
• Experience with Elasticsearch or equivalent search tools
• Hands-on experience in API development (REST, GraphQL, etc.)
• Familiarity with web frameworks like FastAPI and/or Django, Flask etc.
• Experience working with Docker/Kubernetes/Containers
• Good understanding of common Software Design Patterns & Principles
• Familiarity with modern cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and relational databases like MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud

Bonus Points

• Desire to learn and adopt new technologies
• Experience with distributed systems
• System design experience
• Experience in Machine Learning and/or MLOps

Top Pharma Companies, Food Manufacturers, Medical Device Companies, and Service firms from around the globe rely on Redica Systems to mine and process government inspection, enforcement, and registration data in order to quantify risk signals about their suppliers, identify market opportunities, benchmark against their peers, and prepare for the latest inspection trends.  

Our data and analytics have been cited by major media outlets such as MSNBC, WSJ, and the Boston Globe.  

Redica Systems is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.