Software Engineering Manager II

We believe that faster, more diverse clinical trials help extend the human health span and provide a greater return on investment.

We strive to improve the clinical trial experience for patients, sites and sponsors, using technology to accelerate every step of the clinical trial journey.

Our modular clinical trial platform enables the capture and re-use of research data from anywhere, anytime and helps optimize each activity in the clinical trial journey by reducing human effort with technology. From recruitment to monitoring, we help make it easier to design and deploy trials, enroll and engage patients, collect data and analyze results.

Next to being very purpose-driven, we are proud of our caring company culture. We follow our values diligently and take the well-being of each Castorian seriously. Sounds like something for you? Read on!

At Castor, we are committed to a world with faster, smarter, medical research. Our cloud based software solutions are revolutionizing data capture for academic and commercial clinical researchers worldwide. You have found yourself a company with a true purpose.

As Software Engineering Manager II, you will have the technical expertise to define, scope, refine and deliver major projects. You will use your skills to provide technical leadership for these projects and also to manage a team of Engineers to meet the goals you set.

You will have responsibility to set and manage your team’s goals, contribute to product strategy and align with other teams. You will understand and optimize overall team  performance and help individuals to develop under your leadership.

Beyond your skills and responsibilities to deliver world class technical solutions, you will have a passion and responsibility to understand user, customer and participant needs. You will use this understanding to improve and extend Castor’s products with a focus on how this will positively impact user experiences.

Compliance with industry  standards is an essential part of Castor’s business, you will have a responsibility to understand, manage, operate and develop processes and approaches that continuously improve the team’s quality, traceability and efficiency within these standards.

• Set and communicate team priorities that support Castor’s broader goals.
• Align strategy, processes and decision making across teams.
• Set clear expectations for individuals in the team, based on their role and experience. Meet on a regular basis to discuss performance and provide feedback and coach to aid growth and development.
• Hire strong team members and manage performance to ensure that the team grows and improves.
• Provide expert knowledge in software engineering practices, processes and tools to enable your team to deliver, ensuring high standards of quality, excellent communication and timely delivery.
• Drive the execution of projects, including overseeing the whole development lifecycle from planning to production delivery.
• Drive and maintain a technical roadmap within the scope of the team and align with other teams.
• Design or guide, then review and approve the technical approaches, risks and appropriateness of solutions for the team.
• Involve yourself in definition, design and code where appropriate to solve complex or ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by engineers in the team and provide feedback to ensure best practice.
• Define and iterate team practices to ensure quality, accuracy, testability, maintainability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have impact at the Castor organizational level.
• Manage, operate, develop and support the compliance processes within the scope of the team.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Typescript, C# and/or PHP/Python)
• 3 years of technical leadership and project delivery experience in a cloud native environment.
• Demonstrated experience in managing cross-functional technical teams, including hiring, performance management, engineering growth and career planning.
• Demonstrated understanding of system design in a cloud native environment
• An understanding of software engineering and system engineering  best practices to achieve scalable, maintainable, high quality, software and services

Please note that we are open to hire from different European countries and also authorized to provide visa sponsorship for the Netherlands. However, we are unable to accept applications from France, Spain, Bulgaria, Sweden, Switzerland and Greece.

At Castor we truly live and breathe one of our core values, believing we can achieve anything with a healthy and happy team. Our benefits reflect this:

• Guaranteed ‘happy holidays’ bonus 
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Learning & Development Budget to support your growth
• Unlimited annual leave
• A fully remote role, with support for your home office set-up
• A flexible working schedule: nobody is tracking your time except you, we focus on output and delivery
• A great work-life balance
• Quarterly downtime weeks, well-being workshops, sleeping courses, virtual company events and celebrations
• Annual company retreats in person