Castor is looking for Javascript experts to bring our UI and UX to the next level!
Who are we?
We are the team behind Castor EDC (Electronic Data Capture), a web
application that allows medical researchers to collect data for their
clinical studies. We are one of the fastest growing HealthTech
companies, having tripled our customer base in the last year. 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 goal?
To improve healthcare worldwide by enabling medical research through
technology. We want to accelerate medical research by unlocking the
potential of every researcher. We believe that the Castor products can
become the global standard for medical data capture and management. To
meet tomorrow’s healthcare challenges standardizing and reusing datasets
is key. Starting with an easy to use and affordable EDC system, we help
users in their entire research process. Using the large volumes of data
and metadata collected in our systems, we want to provide researchers
AI-driven services to make our core products smarter and smarter. This
poses interesting challenges related to scalability, security,
cryptography, AI and UX. We were recently awarded with a €1.1M EU
Horizon 2020 grant that helps us to speed this along!
Who are we looking for?
To reach our goals, we are looking for experienced frontend
developers that want to contribute to science while working in a
challenging commercial environment. You have 3-5 years of experience
with building up large-scale frontend javascript applications from
scratch, preferably using React.
What will you be doing?
To keep our products at the frontier of innovation, your responsibilities will include:
- Designing the architecture for our new React frontend application that will impact the daily life of thousands of researchers
- Translating user requirements into beautiful new functionality with optimal UX
- Migrate components from our ExtJS 3.4 and 6.5 projects to React
- Collaborating with other engineers, product management and customer success representatives.
- Investigating and building automated unit-, functional and acceptance tests
- Teaching and mentoring other engineers about Javascript
- Identifying opportunities for process and tool improvements and implementing them
- Working on automated toolchains to build and integrate our applications
Our stack and tools
For the frontend of our
applications we will build a new React-based frontend, where we
currently use Sencha ExtJS 3.4 and 6.5. The backend consists of PHP7
applications using Zend Framework 2 and Doctrine 2, backed by
multi-tenant MySQL/MariaDB databases.
Our toolset includes Slack, JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence and Google for
Business. We use Jenkins as a continuous integration server.
We offer
- A job offer within a week (if we like you)
- The chance to carve out your technical role in a fast-moving start-up
- A way to help the world by improving medical research
- The option to work from home 2 days a week
- 30 vacation days per year
- The opportunity to attend relevant tech conferences
- A team of young, smart and driven colleagues
- A spacious office with all amenities located in the south-east part of Amsterdam, next to Holendrecht Station
- Free lunch, snacks and Friday afternoon drinks!
- A great salary, bonuses based on company results and a pension plan
