Job description
Our Mission
We believe that there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare. SOPHiA GENETICS (NASDAQ: SOPH) combines genomics, radiomics, clinical, and other data modalities through our propriety SOPHiA DDM platform to help healthcare professionals and patients across the world in the fight against cancer and rare and inherited diseases. To help us achieve our ambitious mission, we are now searching for a Senior SDE - Backend to join our team in Bidart, France.
Your Mission
Our products are used by hundreds of healthcare institutions globally and provide world leading capabilities for the analysis of genomic, clinical, and imaging data. Our platform is a one-of-a-kind globally distributed information system that brings together hospitals and labs to provide data ingestion and processing, analysis, and modeling, reporting and intelligence, distribution and sharing of a multitude of complex sources of structured and unstructured data, including genomics, imaging, and clinical data, delivered as a multi-tenant SaaS platform on the cloud.
Your mission will be to help expand the functionality of our genomics platform. As our Senior SDE - Backend, you will contribute to the development of high-quality, reliable software by actively participating in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of production systems. You will collaborate closely with other team members, sharing technical expertise, and promoting best practices. Your contributions will help ensure that our software solutions are robust, scalable, and meet the needs of our organization.
The value you add
Execute the SDLC: Owns end-to-end delivery of software components assigned by the team leader including design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance, and support
Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services, while also proactively proposing improvements and new features for the systems owned by the team
Write high-quality, maintainable code and actively participate in code reviews, setting a high bar for engineering standards.
Perform work estimation and risks assessment
Communicate with stakeholders as necessary to develop product
Share engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to a strong engineering culture
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related fields
5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on backend development
Fluent in English to a business level
Proficiency in Micronaut (for backend) is essential. Familiarity in any scripting language is a plus.
Experience working in cloud-native environments, preferably on Azure, including containerized workloads (AKS or Kubernetes)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure tooling (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, Terraform)
Solid understanding of backend fundamentals: APIs, data modeling, concurrency, performance, and distributed systems
Knowledge of frontend technologies (e.g., React, Angular, or similar) and experience collaborating closely with frontend teams is a plus
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, JetBrains AI, etc.) 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?’
- ‘I have an interview with SOPHiA GENETICS. What should I know before I meet with them?’
- ‘I am a *job title* - What can SOPHiA GENETICS offer my career?’
Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.
Suitably 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
