Senior Software Engineer

Are you an experienced backend developer with a passion for building 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 Bidart, FR._

**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 maintaining core systems, while contributing to technical initiatives and ensuring solutions meet both business and technical requirements. The components you'll own are essential to SOPHiA GENETICS’ operations, enabling the processing of medical data into insights for oncologists. They serve as the bridge between Data Scientists’ output and platform visualization. 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.

**The vale you bring**

**Backend System Development & Maintenance**:

- Develop, and maintain robust backend services that are scalable and efficient. Contribution to the design.
- Implement new features and enhancements based on evolving business and technical requirements.
- Ensure backend systems are seamlessly integrated and perform reliably under workloads.

**System Optimization & Scaling**:

- Focus on optimizing system performance, resource utilization, and task execution times.

**New Feature Development & Custom Job Creation**:

- Develop and implement new features and custom job components to support changing business needs.
- Ensure the system can handle new requirements and integrate features smoothly into the existing environment.

**Deployment & Infrastructure Automation**:

- 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**:

- Solid proficiency in Java for back-end development.
- Solid understanding of backend technologies and microservices architecture.
- Experience in optimization of system performance, manage resources effectively, and improve execution time
- 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.
- Experience in Micronaut for developing microservices and backend solutions is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana and Loki.
- Front-end development skills are a plus but not required.
- 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 (2022-2025)
- 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.

**Our DNA**

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous

**Our Virtues**

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up