Full-Stack Software Developer; Drupal​/React

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform.

In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

Contribute to the build and maintenance of high-performance, decoupled web applications that pair Drupal back-ends with React front-ends. Working alongside cross-functional teams, you will help deliver secure, scalable solutions while actively working with established CI/CD processes and containerised environments to ensure steady code delivery. In this role, you will follow standardized workflows to maintain quality and ensure alignment with necessary regulatory requirements.

• Assist in the design and development of Drupal-based sites and React-based user interfaces
• Implement and improve Git Hub Actions pipelines and broader CI/CD automation
• Configure and optimise containerised, high-scale environments (Docker / Kubernetes)
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and other ceremonies
• Conduct peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Follow SOX, SOP, GLP, GMP and related standards
• Produce clean, well-documented, efficient code
• Leverage approved AI tools to streamline daily development tasks

• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.Sc.) or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• Extensive development experience in web development with technologies like PHP and React

• Knowledge of Drupal 10+
• Proficient with decoupled architectures (JSON:
  
  API)

• Modern OOP, Dependency Injection, SOLID principles

• Familiar with React, NextJS and Jest best practices

• Chakra UI experience
• Understanding of React component lifecycle: mounting, evolving, unmounting

• Experience managing automated workflows within Git Hub to streamline code integration and deployment
• Proficiency in Docker / Kubernetes to ensure consistency across local, staging, and production environments
• Practical understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Clear written & verbal communication
• Able to explain technical decisions and trade-offs succinctly

Charles River offers a competitive benefits package, including a generous company pension scheme, private healthcare, dental coverage, performance bonuses, and access to employee discount programs — plus much more!

The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

Charles River is an early‑stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non‑GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities.

Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.