Software Engineer

Faro Health aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies design optimal clinical trials. Our AI powered software platform optimizes and orchestrates complex clinical development by providing powerful insights about trial design and outcomes. Faro empowers researchers to design more intelligent trials, reducing development costs and reaching milestones faster with better patient experiences.

Faro is a mission driven company seeking world class people who share our passion for improving drug availability and patient outcomes through better clinical trial design. We pride ourselves on our vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation and benefits, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.

We are a hybrid workplace where San Diego employees work from their homes as well as in our stunning main headquarters enjoying a gym with classes and (early next year) spa services, outdoor lawn work area, and steeply discounted food hall. Remote employees work from home and visit the main office for group events and in-person collaboration.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work as a part of a dynamic and fast-paced team of software professionals. If you are passionate about solving complex problems, join us in shaping the future of clinical trial development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Features End-to-End: Develop and ship well-structured features with minimal supervision, ensuring business requirements are met with quality and reliability.
• Hands-On Problem Solving: Solve moderately complex technical problems across the stack, contributing to both frontend and backend development.
• System Understanding: Develop a strong understanding of core system components and contribute effectively to enhancements and improvements across services.
• Uphold Engineering Standards: Participate actively in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to junior engineers, and help raise quality standards through pairing and reviews.
• Grow Your Toolkit: Demonstrate a strong willingness to learn new technologies and take on different assignments. Proficiency in one primary language (TypeScript or Python) is expected, with genuine interest and commitment to becoming proficient in both.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Deliver a great user experience by understanding customer needs and ensuring every feature contributes to their workflow.
• Exposure to AI-powered feature development is a plus

Requirements

Skills and Competencies:

• 5+ years of experience in delivering scalable software products with SaaS architectures
• Understanding of microservice architecture and RESTful Services
• Strong skills in TypeScript or Python, with willingness and intent to learn both
• Experience with React, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Docker
• Preferably having experience with UV, Vite, Redis Cache, Postgres, Express, Inversify
• Some exposure to event-driven systems or message queues
• Experience designing relational schemas on relational data stores like PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experience with cloud-service providers like Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and in a team environment
• Constructive in code reviews and willing to mentor junior engineers
• Good written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, growth-minded startup where requirements change
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and take on different assignments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent training experience
• Awareness of AI/LLM concepts, Microsoft Office Add-in development, or clinical trials / regulated healthcare domain is a plus