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 teams
Our main task is to deliver complex components and products with rare technologies in a complex chemical background. Search functions in chemical databases require a strong understanding of algorithms and complex thinking. This function was built most of CXN products. It is a fully remote team, but we like to meet with each other regularly, so we try to be in the office once a week, or at least at the beginning of the sprints. We have team building and workshop events as well, which we prefer in person.
About your responsibilities
- We are looking for a skilled developer to work on scientific projects
- Execute tasks according to project roadmap, implement new features and enhancements
- Help maintain and develop Java libraries that are manipulating database tables
- Good, clean, maintainable code is important for us
- Assist in dockerizing projects
- Expend database search using AWS technologies
- Demonstrate knowledge of Oracle/PostgreSQL databases and their practical usage
Experience, skills, and knowledge you should bring to us
- BSc or higher degree in Computer Sciences or related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong Java knowledge
- Strong knowledge of PL SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Spring Boot, Terraform, Gitlab, AWS
- Good general programming background (like OO design, design patterns, etc.)
- Skill in writing unit, integration, end-to-end tests for implemented features
- Good command of English
- Good work ethic, productive, proactive behavior
- Ability to work in a team and also to solve problems alone
- Willingness to work with a variety of technologies
- Willingness to learn continuously
Bonus skills that will help you hit the ground running
- Docker containerization
- AWS certification,
- Agile software development
- C/C++ programming experience
What we offer
- Remote or hybrid-way of working (8 days/month home office)
- Private health insurance (Medicover)
- 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
Location: Budapest, Váci Greens Office Park
For some info on Chemaxon, you can check out these videos:
- a shorter one about what we do in a nutshell (~1.5 min)
- and one about the Budapest HQ (~30 min)
Top Skills
What We Do
So, briefly: who are we?
Chemaxon is a leading cheminformatics company, with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary and offices in the US and Switzerland
And what do we do?
We provide chemical software development platforms mostly for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries - but any chemist might find us useful.
Why do our users prefer us?
Because we are known for our rapid and high quality technical support, we develop our tools together with our users (the reason we have good quality software); and because we support academic research and teaching like no one else in the industry!
All right, so exactly what are we good for?
Well, among many other things, you can draw & view chemical structures with Marvin Suite; manage and search your compounds with JChem tools; search your database in Excel or in our Instant JChem interface; perform a variety of calculations and predictions; cluster, screen, fragment or synthesize your compounds virtually and deal with Markush structures.
That's it really in a nutshell. If you are interested, contact us or post a message here.
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