BackEnd Software Engineer

Welcome toAZ Guadalajara, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day. To help you maintain your best self, here’s a sneak peek into some of the things this site provides for you…

Aesthetically designed and eco-friendly open office space with collaborative workstations, includes various types of seating, technologically advanced meeting rooms, and break-out areas with water filling stations and refreshments. We even offer concierge services and fitness options.

You'll be part of the Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions (ECS) – Software Engineering (SE) Guadalajara group. We develop bespoke web and mobile applications for different departments across AZ. We use agile methods; and DevOps philosophy and technical practices to build, test, and deploy software, and develop high-performance, happy teams.

In ECS-SE Guadalajara, we love freedom and responsibility. We believe autonomy, mastery, and respect for people are vital to growing, leading, and innovating. We are expanding our organization thanks to these values and our engineers' fantastic work. We need people who share our vision to help us continue developing happy, high-performance teams.

We mainly use Angular, Node.js, Spring, and PostgreSQL for development, but we are open to using other technologies. We are also starting our serverless journey with AWS. Therefore, we look forward to using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and all the other serverless solutions on AWS.

What you’ll do

• Be part of an agile software development team.
• Design and architect the Back-End of mobile and web apps with Sr Software Engineers and the Tech Lead.
• Develop the Back-End of Mobile and Web apps.
• Invest 10% of your time leveling up your skills, learning new technologies, building PoCs, and experimenting with new technologies and software engineering practices.
• Write automated unit and acceptance tests for your code.

• Define your yearly goals with your manager

Essential for the role

• Java
• Spring
• PostgreSQL
• APIs and or Microservices development
• Unit test automation
• Node.js
• Passion for learning, innovating, and experimenting with new engineering practices and tools
• Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum or Kanban)
• Self-directed
• Ability to work and collaborate with people across the globe with diverse cultures and backgrounds

Desirable for the role

• Experience developing serverless solutions on AWS
• Building or using CI/CD pipelines
• Developing serverless apps or solutions on AWS
• JavaScript
• Angular or React

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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