Why choose AstraZeneca Spain?
AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.
We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Diverse collaborators
This is a speak-up culture that values collaboration. You’ll proactively bring your unique perspectives, experiences and skills to the table and seek the same from others. With our international team composition and the need for fast-paced collaboration, you’ll always be building new connections with colleagues.
Cutting-edge innovators
When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that embraces digital technology and data to transform the way we work and the work we do. Every day, you’ll help make history, empowered to ignite your creativity and build something enduring.
Resilient trailblazers
Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact.
Agile movers
Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience.
Responsibilities
About the Team
Connected Insights is an internal, high-profile, bespoke data & AI service built in collaboration with our in-house competitive intelligence professionals. It is transforming how competitive intelligence is created, disseminated and consumed across AstraZeneca into a rich, digital, interconnected, on-demand experience.
Through the use of data pipelines, knowledge graph, interactive visualisations and machine learning, it seeks to integrate key external and internal data sources, generate complex interactive information, and accelerate our teams of competitive intelligence professionals to provide a clear advantage for AstraZeneca. We value creating an excellent customer experience, reliable data, and effective engineering practises.
The Role
We are looking for a skilled back-end developer to join our team in building innovative applications that will revolutionise healthcare.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced Backend Software Engineer / Java Developer with a strong knowledge of best practice and the full software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities will include collaborating with other back-end and front-end engineers as part of a product delivery pod to build robust APIs and microservices, optimizing application performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the overall system architecture. The successful candidate will have a passion for building scalable and efficient back-end systems, a strong attention to detail, and a collaborative mindset to work effectively within a diverse team.
Accountabilities
Develop, maintain, and optimize APIs and microservices using Java/SpringBoot to support critical business functions.
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, providing support and expertise across all stages from design and development to testing, deployment, and operational support.
Collaborate with Ops, Dev, and Test Engineers to proactively identify and resolve operational issues related to performance, monitoring, alerting, design defects, and other factors at all stages of the product or service lifecycle.
Partner with other engineers, scrum masters, business and product analysts, and stakeholders to understand requirements, contribute to architectural decisions, and drive the evolution of our software products.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Proven experience in engineering and delivering software products.
- Deep knowledge and extensive development experience with Java, Spring Boot, APIs, and microservices architectures.
- Strong understanding of cloud environments, particularly AWS, with experience in technologies such as Lambda, EKS, and ECS.
- Solid experience in designing complex data models for relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DocumentDB.
- Experience with build and infrastructure tools, including Docker and Kubernetes, for containerization and orchestration.
- Strong understanding of OAUTH, JWT, and other security implementations for securing APIs and microservices.
- Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development, including experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of RESTful API principles and experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with code quality tools like SonarQube for continuous code inspection and quality assurance.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering teams in multiple geographies.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders convincingly with well-considered logic and technical expertise.
- Strong advocate for code quality and a champion for writing testable and well-documented code.
- Working knowledge of agile project management methodologies and experience using Jira and Confluence for tracking and collaboration.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- While the core focus is on Java/SpringBoot back-end development, experience with Python is highly desirable.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
AstraZeneca offers an environment where you can connect across the business to influence patient outcomes and improve lives. We drive disruptive transformation by unleashing the power of data, machine learning, and technology to turn complex information into practical insights. Collaborate with leading experts in specialist communities, access cutting-edge techniques, and be part of novel solutions. Our diversity is our strength, enabling us to decode business needs and apply technical know-how to add greater value. Here, innovation meets large-scale impact as we empower the business to run faster and better.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team!
Date Posted
16-mar-2026Closing Date
30-mar-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
An award-winning company
We're passionate about being a great place to work, and 84% of our employees would recommend us as an employer. We've been recognised as a Top Employer in Spain, an EFR Family Responsible Business, and we achieved third place in Forbes Spain's Top 50 Best Places to Work list.
Inclusive environment
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There's no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We've also made all positions fully accessible.
Work-life balance
Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we're here to support you through all of life's ups and downs. That's why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.
Sustainability initiatives
We're committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We've reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.
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