Castor is looking for a PHP architecture expert to bring our backend to the next level
Who are we?
We are the team behind Castor EDC (Electronic Data Capture), a web
application that allows medical researchers 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 health care worldwide by enabling medical research through
technology. We want to accelerate medical research by unlocking the
potential of every researcher. We believe that standardizing and reusing
datasets is key to meeting tomorrow’s health care challenges. Starting
with an easy to use and affordable EDC, we help users in their entire
research process. Our recently awarded €1.1M EU Horizon 2020 grant helps
us to speed this along!
Who are we looking for?
We believe that the Castor products can become the global standard
for medical data capture and management. To reach that goal, we are
looking for an experienced PHP engineer who wants to work in a
challenging, fast-paced and quickly scaling environment whilst
contributing to make the world a better place.
What will you be doing?
PHP has always been an integral part of the Castor tech stack. To
keep our products at the frontier of innovation, your responsibilities
will include:
- Designing and writing code for web applications that impact the daily life of thousands of medical researchers.
- Taking apart large user requirement specifications and modeling the optimal, scalable solutions for them.
- Collaborate with and mentor engineers in the team, help them grow their personal and technical skills.
- Analyse performance of our applications, optimize bottlenecks and ensure that we can keep up with our growth.
- Identify opportunities for process and tool improvements and implement them.
- Work on automated toolchains to build and integrate our applications.
Our stack and tools
Our stack consists of PHP7 using (parts of) Zend Framework 2 and
Doctrine 2, backed by a multi-tenant MySQL or MariaDB setup. For the
frontend we use Sencha’s ExtJS 3.4 and 6.5.
Our toolset includes Slack, JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence and Google for
Business. We use Jenkins as a continuous integration server and
provision our development VMs using Ansible. We work in an Agile SCRUM
fashion with a very open-minded, enthusiastic and smart team.
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 and meet-ups
- Work with and contribute to open source software
- 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.