Full-Stack Python Engineer

**About AQEMIA**

AQEMIA is a next-gen pharmatech company generating one of the world's fastest-growing drug discovery pipeline.

We already delivered several drug discovery successes within our internal pipeline and through collaborations with pharmaceutical companies. Our most advanced programs are currently in vivo optimization.

**The Role**

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and improving the platform that powers Aqemia’s drug discovery efforts. This is the first role of its kind at Aqemia, meaning you will have significant influence over engineering culture, best practices, and technical decisions. You will be responsible for aligning engineering efforts across the company and ensuring our platform is robust, scalable, and efficient.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Design, build, and evolve reliable and scalable services running biochemical algorithms
- Lead full-stack development, improving both backend (FastAPI, Python, SQL) and frontend components
- Shape the engineering culture, defining best practices and ensuring high-quality code
- Act as a technical leader within the engineering team, making key architectural and stack decisions
- Support and guide other engineers, fostering collaboration and technical excellence
- Operate in an Agile environment, participating in daily sprints and iterative development cycles

**What We’re Looking For**:

- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in an engineering organisation of 20+ engineers
- Strong full-stack development experience with expertise in Python, FastAPI (or similar backend frameworks), SQL, Vue.js/React (or similar frontend framework)
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, but other cloud experience is welcome)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and DevOps principles (CI/CD, infrastructure as code) is a plus
- Proven ability to lead and deliver technical projects from start to finish
- Experience in designing and architecting complex software systems
- Ability to balance quality and fast iterations in a fast-paced environment
- Strong collaboration skills; ability to interact effectively with technical stakeholders
- Preferred mindset
- You are eager to play an active role in contributing to Aqemia’s strategy to develop drugs for patients.
- You will bring strong knowledge and skills to inspire and coach brilliant people from diverse backgrounds.
- You are keen to solve tough problems on issues that truly matter, with a proactive and a can-do attitude.
- You thrive on working collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment that keeps everyone on track.

**Our recruitment process**:

- 1 - Hiring Manager’s interview: you’ll meet directly with your future manager Zeïd (1h, visio call)
- 2 - Technical assessment of your skills: live coding exercise in Python (45min, visio call)
- 3 - Technical assessment of your skills: system design collaborative exercise, plus a tour of our offices (1h, in office)
- 4 - Cultural fit interview with our co-founder and COO Emmanuelle (45min)
- 5 - Final interview with our co-founder and CEO Maximilien (45min)

**Why Join Us ?**
- At AQEMIA, we work for a mission: joining us means having your own impact on changing the way drugs are discovered, and helping to shape the direction of our fast-growing company and team._

**Expanding Drug Discovery Pipeline**: Focused on critical therapeutic areas like Oncology, CNS, Immuno-inflammation... with in vivo proof of concept/patent stage programs. Collaborations with top Pharma, including a $140M Sanofi deal.

**Interdisciplinary Team** : brilliant talent from tech and life sciences.

**DeepTech Recognition**: Part of French Tech 120 and France 2030.

**Prime Location** : Based in central Paris and London (King's Cross) with the possibility of 2 remote days per week.

**International Environment**: The work language is English - relocation support and French lessons granted if needed.

**Strong Financial Backing** : $100M raised from leading European and International investors