Tech Lead

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.

Chemaxon is an industry-leading cheminformatics software company helping early-stage drug discovery and chemistry research for more than 25 years. Our clients are top pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotech startups, and leading academic institutions.

We have been acquired by Certara, a US-based model-informed drug development services and software company. We are in an exciting time of organizational and business growth, so now is the perfect time to join our team!

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead who will partner with our existing backend lead to jointly drive the technical direction, operational execution, and team leadership. This person should bring strong engineering skills, natural leadership energy, and a genuine interest in the Chemaxon product portfolio. The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable writing production code, supporting engineers, and driving team processes.

Responsibilities

Technical Profile

• Strong frontend or full-stack engineering background (modern JS frameworks, TypeScript, UI architecture, tooling, etc.)
• Comfortable working hands-on: regularly coding, reviewing PRs, supporting design and implementation decisions
• Ability to collaborate deeply with the backend lead to align architectural plans across the full stack
• Experience in designing scalable, maintainable user-facing systems

Leadership & Collaboration

• Motivated to engage in people management activities (coaching, feedback, 1:1s, supporting growth)
• Natural communicator who brings energy and clarity to the team
• Enjoys improving team processes, rituals, quality practices, and collaboration
• Able to act as a partner to the existing backend lead - balanced, respectful, complementary
• Capable of representing the team toward Product, Design, and other engineering groups
• Comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives forward end-to-end

Mindset & Culture Fit

• Curious about Chemaxon’s mission, product ecosystem, and scientific domain
• Values openness, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement
• Proactive, positive, and supportive team player
• Thrives in an environment where technical challenges and leadership responsibilities mix

Qualifications

• Strong technical expertise in frontend or full-stack development
• Proven experience in team leadership or people management
• Excellent communication skills
• Good command of English
• Proactive leadership mindset: able to coach, give feedback, and support team growth
• Familiarity or interest in scientific/chemistry software or domain-specific tooling is a plus

What we offer

• Hybrid-way of working (8 days/month home office)
• Private health insurance (Medicover)
• Daily entry into Life1 Fitness Clubs
• 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

Certara bases all employment-related decisions 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 characteristics protected