Senior Software Engineer

Certara USA, Inc.
United States, Pennsylvania, Wayne
4 Radnor Corporate Center (Show on map)
Jan 05, 2026
Overview About Certara Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries. Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization. The successful candidate will be able to work as a senior software engineer in a dynamic, fast-paced software engineering team that is primarily virtually distributed. The candidate will have significant knowledge of modern web technologies and be able to dynamically build novel software solutions as well as adding additional features to existing solutions. Technologies where there is mastery will include Angular and at least one of: Java/Groovy, Python, C#. Responsibilities Work closely with front end designers and server side developers to implement full stack solutions that solve complex use cases Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code Maintain and grow applications according to business and technology priorities Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines Provide process and architecture improvement recommendations Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience Extensive experience (5+ years) in software development, with a focus on front-end or full-stack development Strong communication and problem-solving skills Ability to take initiative and develop feature prototypes with minimal requirements and iterate based on feedback from stakeholders and end users Comfortable working in a remote environment and communicating via chat, video conference, screen sharing and phone calls Proficiency with Angular/Vue.js, HTML5, CSS, and related technologies. Experience building single page web applications atop RESTful APIs Familiarity with distributed version control systems and the Git workflow, including pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD systems Experience with Web Sockets and real time messaging Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.