Position: front End Developer
Location: India (Remote)
Experience: 4+ years

At Charles River, we care deeply about making people’s lives better. When you join our global team, you’ll help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are creative thinkers who keep learning and improving. We’ll give you the tools you need to grow in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you’ll be part of a leading, customer-focused company at the front of drug development. Your skills will help bring life-saving treatments to market faster, using simpler, quicker, and more digital ways of working. Whether you work in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, working at Charles River means you’ll make a difference every day for patients around the world.

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Front end Developer to help design and build modern, easy-to-use, high-quality web apps that support our digital lab system. The ideal person will have strong skills in modern JavaScript tools, a great sense for UI/UX design, and the ability to work on their own while bringing creative ideas to improve our products.

This role works closely with different teams to turn what users need into clean, fast, and flexible screens that support our goal of improving health worldwide.

This job will be remote, from a home office in India.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality front end apps using modern JavaScript tools.
• Work with Product Owners, UX designers, and back-end teams to turn ideas into screens that work well, are easy to use, and focus on the user.
• Help shape user journeys, prototypes, and how people interact with the product to make it easier to use.
• Share thoughtful ideas on technical approaches, structure, and ways to keep improving.
• Work on your own to take tasks from idea to finished product, balancing creativity with careful, solid work.
• Keep code quality high by following good habits for easy upkeep, speed, and accessibility.
• Connect with RESTful APIs and work well with the teams handling back-end systems.

Education & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

4+ years of experience in the following:

Front end / Framework Skills

• Svelte / SvelteKit experience is strongly recommended and counts as a big plus.
• People with very strong Vue.js or React experience will also be considered.
• Deep knowledge of building with components, modern state management, responsive layouts, and fast front end engineering.

UI/UX Skills

• Proven strength in UI/UX work, including usability, interaction design, and visual design basics.
• Proven ability to turn ideas, wireframes, and mockups into polished user experiences.
• Strong creativity and attention to detail — able to improve both how it looks and how it works.

Technical Understanding

Hands-on back-end development experience isn’t required, but you should have a solid understanding of:

• RESTful API basics and how to connect with them
• JSON data handling, how requests and responses work, and how errors are handled
• Login and access control basics (e.g., tokens, headers)
• A general idea of how modern back-end systems work

Core Skills

• Able to work on your own and take full responsibility for tasks with little supervision
• A creative thinker who brings new ideas and approaches
• Strong problem-solving skills and open to trying different solutions
• Great communication and teamwork skills, even when working with spread-out teams
• High sense of responsibility, attention to detail, and commitment to quality

About Corporate Functions

Corporate Functions support Charles River in areas like Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They work with teams across the company to build strategies and set global standards. These teams help connect big-picture plans with everyday readiness, so the company keeps improving.

About Charles River

“Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We started out in lab animal medicine and science, and now we offer a wide range of discovery and safety testing services – both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP — to help clients from early research all the way through pre-clinical development. We also offer products and services to support clients’ clinical lab testing and manufacturing needs. This wide range of services helps our clients develop drugs in a more flexible way, cutting costs and helping them work faster and better.

With over 20,000 employees across 110 locations in more than 20 countries, we’re well set up to bring together resources and different points of view from around the world to solve our clients’ unique problems. Our clients include global pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, government agencies, hospitals, and schools around the world.

At Charles River, we care deeply about our role in improving people’s lives. Our mission, strong science, and sense of purpose guide everything we do, and every day we know our work helps improve health and wellbeing for people worldwide. We’ve proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

We’re committed to offering benefits that improve your quality of life. Depending on your role, this may include: performance-based bonuses, 401K, paid time off, a stock purchase program, health and wellness coverage, support programs for you and your family, and flexible work-life balance.