Castor

Castor

https://castoredc.com
Who is Castor? Castor is a young, dynamic and fast-growing health tech startup. What’s our mission? To bring medical research practices into the digital age. Using real-time, standardised , inclusive and broader datasets we hope to fundamentally change the broken evidence based medicine process through use of data. BOOM! You’ve found yourself a company with a true purpose. Driven by a core purpose, our 'Castorians' (a.k.a our awesome employees) believe data and user-friendly technology is key to overcoming the healthcare challenges of the future. We have a diverse team, employing Dutch, Canadian, German, Swedish, Romanian, British, Chilean, Uruguayan, Australian, Filipino and Indian staff. You can get to know our people on our team page and go to Instagram to get a feel for our company culture. What do we do? We are developing Castors Electronic Data Capture platform, a web application that allows medical researchers to collect data for their clinical studies. We are one of the fastest growing HealthTech companies, having grown our customer base to over 30,000 researchers worldwide. We are proud of the fact that our customers are our biggest growth engine. Once they use our product, they fall in love and tell their fellow researchers! What is our Castor vs. COVID-19 project? Castor has joined the global fight against the Coronavirus by making our research data capture system available for free for all COVID-19 research projects. As of May 1, Castor is supporting more than 180 COVID-19 studies across 15 countries. Since time is of the essence, we have enabled these studies to go live within 5 days on average. What is our "big, hairy, audacious" goal?!" We want to accelerate medical research by unlocking the potential of every researcher. Starting with an easy to use and affordable EDC we want to help researchers throughout the entire medical research process. We believe that standardizing and reusing research datasets is key to meeting tomorrow’s healthcare challenges.

Castor

Remote Senior Front-end Engineer (React,js)

“Castor’s success is due in no small part to our attention to UI & UX. The ability to remain agile in this field is crucial.” - David Sigley, Head of Engineering at Castor

Who is Castor?

Castor is a leading cloud-based clinical data platform working with some of the world’s largest medical device companies, biopharma, and renowned academic institutes.

We simplify the clinical trial process, from recruitment to analysis, with user-friendly, patient-centric technology. Our mission is to bring medical research into the digital age. Why? Because medical research is still largely run using free-text, paper, and legacy technology.

Our self-service platform enables our users to run remote, device enabled, patient-centric trials. By helping our users capture high-quality data and making it machine-readable, we are fundamentally changing the flawed evidence-based medicine process.

How is Castor supporting the Coronavirus crisis?

Castor has joined the global fight against the Coronavirus by making our research data capture system available for free for all COVID-19 research projects. Castor is supporting more than 250 COVID-19 studies across the world, including the World Health Organization’s SOLIDARITY trial.

What you’ll do?

Joining our team as a Frontend Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a greenfield project and shape Castor’s frontend culture. To make medical research faster and smarter, you will strive to grow an application with the best possible UI and UX on a modern, easy to work with, stack by:

  • Owning and growing our React Front End engineering, moving further towards a well-structured, tested, and accessible experience;
  • Leading our frontend engineers by example, both by mentoring and setting standards through your daily work on features and improvements;
  • Supporting the QA team with the infrastructure that allows them to create End-to-End tests with Javascript;
  • Collaborating closely with our Design System Team to integrate existing components into our application(s) and add new capabilities to this system;

What you’ll work with?

Currently, we are using React, Redux, NextJS, TypeScript. Additionally, we’re using Babel, Webpack, Jest, TestCafe, ESLint, Prettier, SCSS, and other tools. The backend consists of modern PHP7 applications, backed by multi-tenant MySQL databases. Our toolbox includes CircleCI, Github, Slack, JIRA, Storybook, and MkDoc.

What you’ll bring?

As a Senior Frontend Developer, you have extensive experience in building up large-scale Front-End JavaScript Applications. You’re using React with confidence, making the way of working accessible and effective for others, by bringing:

  • Solid experience using React.js, keeping HTML and CSS maintainable and adaptable in large projects;
  • Foundational knowledge about web technologies, such as backend programming languages and tools, web-related protocols, and a general understanding of how the internet works;
  • Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English;

What you’ll get

At Castor, we truly live and breathe our core values, believing we can achieve anything with a "healthy and happy team." With this in mind, we offer the following benefits:

  • A flexible remote working opportunity
  • A competitive salary and a guaranteed 'happy holidays' bonus
  • Investing in our talent with a strong Employee Stock Option Plan
  • 30 days annual leave (plus national holidays)
  • Interested in ‘lifelong learning’? You’ll love using our development and training budget!
  • Flexible approach to working - nobody is tracking your time except you
  • MacBook or Dell laptop, we’re a tech start-up after all ;)
  • Like to feel zen? You’ll love our company subscription to Calm for meditation and yoga

To make medical research smarter and faster, and build top-notch products to support decentralized clinical trials, we pay close attention to diversity & inclusion in Castor’s Product and Engineering teams. You can learn more from our Team Lead Roxana and Software Engineer Luciana Interviews on how they experience working at Castor and their thoughts on D&I challenges.