Technical Team Lead - Engineering

Norstella; Dover; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000

Job description

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Norstella Technical Team Lead - Engineering in Dover , Delaware

Technical Team Lead - Engineering

Location: Remote, United States

Date Posted: Mar 19, 2025

Employment Type: Full Time

Job ID: R-979

Description

Why Norstella? Norstella unites market-leading companies that all have a shared goal of improving patient access. Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making.

Together, we help our clients:

1. Assess the market need and competitive landscape
2. Know precisely which drugs to prioritize in their portfolios
3. Find out where the launch difficulties will be—before they’re difficulties
4. Track and improve market access post-launch

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. At Norstella, we don’t just deliver information and insights. We deliver answers you can act on.

Job Description

Have you wondered how life saving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed and made available to patients in need? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted at a global scale? How governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug, and how a care provider determines the right treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could the next step in your career.

Reporting into Senior Director, the Technical Engineering Lead will be responsible for leading and managing a team of developers and engineers to deliver high-quality software products or services. In addition to technical expertise, the Technical Lead should have experience managing people, providing leadership, and creating a positive team culture. The Technical lead will also work with external developers responsible for the development and subsequent support of the various platform services components underpinning all the content applications across Norstella. As part of a large technology group, the Technical Lead will work with product management, architecture and other software engineering teams in support of the product development roadmap.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with great communication skills, deep experience in software engineering, and most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.

Responsibilities:

1. Build strong engineering team and culture.
2. Work on projects with significant complexity
3. Work as a close partner with product/project managers and designers to understand client requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
4. Shape the technical and strategic direction of engineering squads
5. Have a strong sense of ownership of the solutions that your team works on
6. Be willing to work with and invest yourself in learning new technologies, programming languages, databases etc.
7. Be an "agile" person. You desire a fast-paced dynamic work environment
8. Review existing technologies for suitability and make recommendations for change
9. Develop, test, and maintain high-quality software applications using Python, Java / Spring Boot, Typescript, React, AWS, and Database technologies
10. Collaborate with developers on the team to ensure code quality and consistency
11. Help Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and non-production environments
12. Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our coding practices and standards

Requirements:

1. Must have 3+ years of People Management experience and demonstrated experience leading teams.
2. 9+ years of experience in programming with Java/Python
3. 4+ years of experience working with Spring Boot, Spring Batch Frameworks
4. 3+ years of experience working with FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python web framework
5. 3+ years in building highly performant and scalable web applications using modern tech stacks – HTML5/CSS3/React JS/TypeScript
6. 2+ years of experience with experience working with cloud technology (preferably AWS), and various AWS services like S3, API Gateway, App Sync
7. Expertise in AWS Cloud/AWS UI technology stack
8. 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
9. 2+ years of experience in Agile development and delivery – Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban methodologies
10. 2+ years of experience with modern relational and NoSQL databases (Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB is a plus)
11. 4+ years of experience designing, developing and architecting backend microservices with RESTful API and API security frameworks, service-oriented and/or microservices architecture
12. 4+ years of experience using modern build and deployment tools such as Jenkins and Docker
13. Experience with web scraping frameworks
14. Experience with Data Structures, Algorithms, and general Computer Science concepts
15. Experience within pharma/healthcare sector is a plus
16. Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study, or equivalent experience

The guiding principles for success at Norstella:

1. We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients.
2. Integrity, Truth, Reality: We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights.
3. Kindness, Empathy, Grace: We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness.
4. Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance: We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations.

What we offer you:

1. Medical and prescription drug benefits
2. Health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts
3. Dental plans and vision benefits
4. Basic life and AD&D Benefits
5. Short and Long Term Disability
6. Maternity leave
7. Paid parental leave
8. Paid time off

Please Note - All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not provide visa sponsorship or transfers. We are not currently accepting candidates who are on an OPT visa.

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $170,000 to $190,000. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.

Norstella provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.