
Senior Software Engineer – Ingénieur Logiciel Senior
SOPHiA GENETICS
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Are you an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building and improving scalable, high-performance systems?
- Join the SOPHiA GENETICS Software Engineering team as our new **Senior Software Engineer**
- Develop, optimize, and continuously improve core systems
- Contributing to technical initiatives and ensuring solutions meet both business and technical requirements
- 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.
- 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
- Optimize deployment workflows, automate pipelines, and enhance infrastructure management
- Implement and maintain monitoring systems to track performance and identify bottlenecks.
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
- Sickness and Accident coverage through Helsana
- Meal Vouchers at 90CHF PM with our partner cafeteria
- A fun and engaging work environment, with Rest & Entertainment space, full stocked free coffee machine and free fruit/snacks
- Free parking in an easy to access location
- A strong social committee whose purpose is to make SOPHiA GENETICs both enjoyable as well as rewarding
- As our global HQ, you’ll have direct interaction and exposure to senior leadership and our executive team locally
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Javamicroservice architectureReact.jssystem performance optimizationMySQLMariaDBDuckDBLinuxGitLabMicronaut
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaboration