About Chemaxon
Chemaxon is an industry-leading cheminformatics software company helping early-stage drug discovery and chemistry research for more than 20 years. Our clients are top pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotech startups, and leading academic institutions.
We are agile, innovative and friendly, offering compelling opportunities for frequent collaboration and cross-training with teammates and stakeholders.
We operate internationally, with regional teams based in Budapest (HQ), UK, Boston, San Diego and Basel (Switzerland), along with distributors in the Asia Pacific. We are in an exciting time of organizational and business growth, so now is the perfect time to join our team!
About the team
The Architect team is a small horizontal team of Chemaxon, which is responsible for the software engineering decisions of the company. They work closely with the CTO and the teams to find optimal solutions to the upcoming challenges. They participate in the research and POC phases of development and they create the internal policies. They influence the infrastructural planning and technology choices across the whole organization.
About your responsibilities
- Technology alignment of the product development teams in line with the company standards and goals. Execute common technical decisions.
- Review product architecture plans
- Support product development
- Ensure the alignment with company security standards.
- Defining architecture and technical guidelines for the company in accordance with technology strategy
- Give technical advice or guidance to the development teams
- Contribute to company-level technology strategy.
- Giving or organizing training, presentations and other knowledge sharing events.
- Create technical specifications, white papers and other technical material that can be used to help sales or improve customer experience.
- Research difficult problems and evaluate emerging technologies to shape our long-term technology roadmap.
- Partner PMs, EMs, Lead Developers with technical advice
- Promote a strong, positive engineering culture
- Being a role model of Developers, demonstrating Chemaxon values
Experience, skills and knowledge you should bring to us
- Strong Java knowledge
- Analytical skills, system thinking
- Experience in developing libraries or Service Oriented Architecture
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong leadership skill, the ability to influence people
- Ability to coach and mentor others
- Strong English language skills (both written and spoken)
Bonus skills that will help you hit the ground running
- Strong understanding of a database technology
- Good understanding of quality control technologies
- Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS is preferred)
- C# .Net, C++, C or Python experience
- Ability to think outside the box
- Be open for new technologies
- Holistic view
What we offer
- Hybrid-way of working (8 days/month home office)
- Private health insurance (Medicover)
- Daily entry into Life1 Fitness Clubs
- Generous annual training budget supporting your professional development (off-site training, international conferences, e-books)
- We work with global Top500 companies (R&D) and leading academic institutions, giving you a chance to gain insights into these dynamically evolving industries.
- Inspiring working environment - leisure and recreation area, playing corner for children, English lessons, yearly user conference with social programs, innovation days
- You will be a valued member of a creative and supportive agile team
- Everyday use of English in a multicultural environment
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Please note, we’re unable to support relocation or sponsor visa for this role.
