Our Mission
We believe that there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare. combines genomics, radiomics, clinical, and other data modalities through our propriety SOPHiA DDM platform to help healthcare professionals and patients across the world in the fight against cancer and rare and inherited diseases. To help us achieve our ambitious mission, we are now searching for a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to join our team in Bidart.
Your Mission
As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, you will be part of a team of Engineers focused on developing web-modules and their microservices powering a multi-modal digital healthcare platform. Our platform is a one-of-a-kind globally distributed information system that brings together hospitals and labs to provide data ingestion and processing, analysis and modeling, reporting and intelligence, distribution and sharing of a multitude of complex sources of structured and unstructured data, including genomics, imaging, and clinical data, delivered as a multi-tenant SaaS platform on the cloud.
The value you add
- You will be leading the development, and end-to-end delivery of micro services driving web-modules on our digital platform, data warehouses, and other reference data projects. This will include design, architecture, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, maintenance, and support of the services and other projects owned by your team.
- You will be responsible for the design of individual components of the services and will collaborate daily with technical staff in- and outside of the team.
- You will participate in the evaluation of new technologies and implement POCs for future services.
- You will actively participate in code and design reviews with other members of the team. As needed for your projects, you will participate in estimations and risk assessments, and exchange with stakeholders in Product and Project Management and other departments. You will participate in the team’s recurring activities and help organize them.
- You will share your knowledge of best practices in the department and will support more junior team members.
- 10+ years’ experience in the software engineering field.
- You have multiple experiences in leading the development of reliable and performant services, full- stack applications and have a firm grasp on the underlying challenges of releasing a service to production.
- Excellent knowledge of Java, Javascript/Typescript and other languages
- Excellent knowledge of front-end framework like React, NextJs
- Advanced knowledge of modern DevOps tools,modern scalable database technologies and SQL
- You know modern software engineering processes, have a solid knowledge of tools, technologies, and best practices.
- You seek to lead and exchange regularly and communicate effectively with other members of your team.
- You have a basic understanding of the domain of genomics and digital healthcare and care for the impact you can have in this field.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated several experiences working on Service-Oriented Architectures, Microservices, and APIs
- Great knowledge of software engineering best-practices, Agile, CI/CD, testing frameworks, BDD, TDD, ...
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, Excellent level of English, French mandatory
- Knowledge of GraphQL
- Solid experience with containerization (Docker, ...) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ...) technologies
You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we drive exponential growth.
Business recognition and accolades include:
- World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
- World's smartest companies (Top 50)
- 100 Best Places to Work in Boston
- Top 10 European Tech Startup
- Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
- Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch
Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:
- Forfait-Jour working types
- Health benefits for you and your family covered by 80% employer contributions
- Life Insurance and pensions contribution
- SWILE meal vouchers and home office allowances
- 25 Days Vacation
- Additional voluntary benefits including sports allowance, language courses, bank partnerships and transportation.
The Process
Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. All CV's MUST be in English for a successful review.
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Bidart, France (3 days in office)
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
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What We Do
SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is a healthcare technology company dedicated to establishing the practice of data-driven medicine as the standard of care and for life sciences research. It is the creator of the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, a cloud-based SaaS platform capable of analyzing data and generating insights from complex multimodal data sets and different diagnostic modalities. The SOPHiA DDM™ Platform and related solutions, products and services are currently used by more than 780 hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions globally.
Why Work With Us
This is not just a tech company, it’s not only about algorithms and data, it’s more than that. It’s bold, visionary, and altruistic. Democratizing health outcomes is bigger than a spreadsheet, a sale, or a line of code. It’s all of those things coming together with driven, curious people to deliver this audacious vision.
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