Full-Stack Software Developer (Drupal / React)

At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

Job Summary

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 standardised workflows to maintain quality and ensure alignment with necessary regulatory requirements.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Assist in the design and development of Drupal-based sites and React-based user interfaces

Implement and improve GitHub 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

Must-Have Qualifications

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

Drupal Expertise

Knowledge of Drupal 10+

Proficient with decoupled architectures (JSON:API)

Strong PHP (modern OOP, Dependency Injection, SOLID principles)

React Expertise

Familiar with React, NextJS and Jest best practices

Nice To Have

Chakra UI experience

Understanding of React components lifecycle: mounting, evolving, unmounting

Software Delivery and Automation

Experience managing automated workflows within GitHub 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)

Soft Skills

Clear written & verbal communication

Able to explain technical decisions and trade-offs succinctly

What We Offer

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!

About Corporate Functions

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.

About Charles River

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.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to [email protected]. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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