Job Description
🇫🇷 Vous êtes un ingénieur logiciel expérimenté, passionné par la création de solutions numériques à fort impact dans le domaine de la santé ? Rejoignez notre équipe pour concevoir et déployer des modules web et des microservices au sein d’une plateforme mondiale reliant hôpitaux et laboratoires. Vous vous concentrerez sur l’interprétation génomique, le traitement et l’analyse de données, et contribuerez à notre plateforme SaaS qui révolutionne la façon dont les données de santé complexes sont partagées et exploitées.
Si ce profil vous correspond et que vous êtes animé par un sens profond de l’utilité, rejoignez l’équipe d’ingénierie logicielle full-stack de SOPHiA GENETICS et contribuez à améliorer concrètement les résultats pour les patients atteints de cancer ou de maladies rares, partout dans le monde.
Ce poste est en mode hybride et nécessite une présence de 3 jours par semaine dans nos bureaux de Bidart. Merci de soumettre votre CV en anglais, notre langue de travail en tant qu’entreprise internationale.
🇬🇧 Are you an experienced full-stack software engineer with a passion for building impactful digital healthcare solutions? Join our team to develop and deliver web modules and microservices for a globally distributed platform that connects hospitals and labs. You’ll focus on genomics interpretation, data processing, and analysis, contributing to our SaaS platform that transforms how complex healthcare data is shared and utilized.
If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join the SOPHiA GENETICS Software Engineering team as our new Senior Full-Stack 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. Please ensure that all CV/Resumes are submitted in English as we are an international company that uses English as our language of business.
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 Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will lead the development and delivery of web-based solutions that directly support Sophia Genetics’ business objectives in digital healthcare. You will work closely with product, QA, and cross-functional teams to ensure our platform meets market needs, regulatory standards, and performance goals, enabling hospitals and labs to efficiently process and analyze complex genomics and clinical data. Your responsibility includes deeply understanding business needs and translating them into effective technical solutions, optimizing workflows, and contributing to the scalability and commercial success of our SaaS platform.
The value you bring:
End-to-End Software Development & Delivery
Develop and optimize web-based services and components, leveraging modern frameworks (React, Next.js, Node.js) and robust backend technologies (Java, microservices) to deliver seamless user experiences.
Own and drive the full lifecycle of complex, high-performance software systems - from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and maintenance - ensuring reliability and scalability.
Enhance system performance through database optimization (MySQL, MariaDB, DuckDB) and efficient query design, ensuring data integrity and fast processing.
Leverage AI and modern tools to enhance SDLC, observability, monitoring, and system intelligence, driving data-driven decision-making
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Orchestrate cross-functional projects by collaborating with Product, QA, Architecture, and other teams to design interoperable systems and deliver high-impact features.
Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Resolve complex technical issues with efficiency, minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth operations.
Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
Streamline SDLC processes, integrating Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab) to accelerate delivery and improve workflow automation.
Collaborate with stakeholders (PMO, Product, QA, Architecture) to align technical execution with product vision and user needs.
Business Understanding
Bridge technical execution with business goals by deeply understanding the genomics and digital healthcare domain, ensuring solutions align with user needs and regulatory requirements.
Advocate for user-centric improvements by reviewing designs against ease of use and suggesting enhancements to product stakeholders based on hands-on experience.
5-7 years’ experience in the web development field
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent professional experience
You have demonstrated experience in developing reliable web-based services and have a firm grasp on the underlying challenges of releasing web components to production
Solid proficiency of front-end framework: React, Next JS, Node, JSX
Proficiency in Java for back-end development
Solid understanding of backend technologies and microservices architecture
Experience with databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and DuckDB, (plus for design and query optimization)
Experience with AI use in SDLC
Familiarity with Linux environments and GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines
Good knowledge of software engineering best-practices, Agile, CI/CD, testing frameworks, TDD, BDD
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana and Loki is a plus
Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
Knowledge of modern DevOps tools would be a plus
Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies is a plus
Experience in the domain of genomics and digital healthcare is a plus
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:
FR:
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
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 each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.
At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal
The process
We use the power of AI to help our partners make decisions. If you’re utilizing AI in your search and application process, why not use some of these prompts:
- ‘What impact can I expect to have on the world by working at SOPHiA GENETICS?’
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- ‘I am a *job title* - What can SOPHiA GENETICS offer my career?’
Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.
Suitable qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.
We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Bidart, FR (Hybrid, 3 days PW)
Contract: Permanent
