Skills

Java MySQL GitLab CI/CD Monitoring Version Control Architecture Linux Databases Organization Agile Microservice React.js CI/CD Pipelines Kafka Grafana Loki Microservices

Job Specifications

Are you an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building and improving scalable, high-performance systems? Are you looking for a team that embraces fresh ideas, encourages an agile approach, and ensures your voice is heard and your contributions truly make an impact?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join the SOPHiA GENETICS Software Engineering team as our new Senior Software Engineer, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

This is a hybrid opportunity, requiring 3 days onsite our corporate office in Rolle, CH.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

As our Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and continuously improving core systems, while contributing to technical initiatives and ensuring solutions meet both business and technical requirements. The components you'll work on and own are essential to SOPHiA GENETICS' DDM operations and enable integration with external hospital systems, unlocking the potential for processing of medical data into insights for oncologists at high volumes. These components span the technology stack and enable AI algorithms processing medical data to have a real-world impact via a robust and scalable architecture. Your expertise will ensure these components not only scale effectively but also remain efficient in terms of performance and cost, while maintaining overall system health. By implementing cutting edge clinical diagnostic workflows through system integrations at prominent healthcare institutions, you will have direct impact on the acceleration of progress of healthcare.

The value you bring

System Development & Improvement/ Maintenance:

Design, develop, and continuously improve robust services and workflows that are scalable and efficient
Implement enhancements based on evolving business and technical requirements
Ensure components are seamlessly integrated and perform reliably under workloads
Optimize system performance, resource utilization, and task execution times

New Feature Development:

Interact with internal and external stakeholders to understand and refine requirements
Develop and implement new features and components to support changing business needs
Set up smart fully automated tests covering all use cases and requirements for long term maintainability

Deployment & Infrastructure Automation:

Optimize deployment workflows, automate pipelines, and enhance infrastructure management for efficient and reliable application deployment
Contribute to improvements in system stability, minimizing downtime and ensuring seamless rollouts

Monitoring & Observability:

Implement and maintain monitoring systems to track performance and identify bottlenecks
Use observability tools like Grafana and Loki to improve system reliability and provide insights into operational health

Requirements

Proficiency in Java for backend service engineering
Extensive experience working on large-scale systems with microservice architecture
Experience with React.js or other modern web UI development framework
Experience in optimization of system performance, managing resources effectively and improving execution time - especially when dealing with very large data volumes
Proficiency with databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and DuckDB, including design and query optimization
Familiarity with Linux environments and GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines
Experience with scalable architecture, particularly in cloud environments and containerized infrastructure
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana and Loki
Experience in Micronaut for developing microservices and backend solutions is a strong plus
Experience with HL7 / FHIR protocols for healthcare interoperability is a strong plus
Work experience in a direct customer facing role is a strong plus
Knowledge of Kafka is a plus
Experience in genomics is beneficial

Benefits

You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue 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:

Sickness and Accident coverage through Helsana
Meal Vouchers at 90CHF PM with our partner cafeteria
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About the Company

SOPHiA GENETICS was founded in 2011 by biologists who had a vision to create a technology that could make a positive and lasting impact on the world, using data for good. We’ve built a revolutionary technology platform, SOPHiA DDM™, that rapidly distills complex data into actionable insights, enabling clinicians, researchers, and biopharma to reshape the way that we diagnose and treat cancer and rare inherited disorders. The AI fueling our platform learns from the complex genomic and multimodal data provided by our com... Know more