Are you an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building and improving 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 Boston, MA.
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 a Senior Software Engineer , you will be responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and continuously improving software solutions, while contributing to technical initiatives and ensuring the solutions meet both business and technical requirements.
Your work will enable healthcare institutions in setting up diagnostic workflows that integrate seamlessly with the SOPHiA DDM platform – processing high-volume of medical data and bringing insights for oncologists via a streamlined process.
These components span the complete technology stack of SOPHiA DDM as well as the middleware layer responsible for integration and connectivity between SOPHiA DDM and external hospital systems. Your expertise will ensure these components not only scale effectively but also remain efficient in terms of performance and cost, while being extended with features required for new integrations.
The value you bring
Design, develop, and continuously improve robust services that are scalable and efficient while fitting into overall system architecture
Implement new features and enhancements across SOPHiA DDM core components, public API as well as middleware layer to enable setup of new integrations with external hospital systems of our customers
Support existing live integrations with customers, propose and implement enhancements based on customer feedback and to achieve system robustness goals
Ensure components perform reliably under high workloads, optimize system performance, resource utilization, and task execution times, contribute to improvements in system stability
Optimize deployment workflows, automate pipelines, and enhance infrastructure management for efficient and reliable application deployment
Implement and maintain monitoring systems to track performance and identify bottlenecks, use existing observability tools like Grafana and Loki to provide insights into operational health
Use cutting edge AI tools and software engineering best practices to boost productivity across all workstreams
Requirements
Minimum of 5 years' experience in a comparable role, holding a bachelor’s or master’s degree (or higher)
Solid proficiency in Java for backend services
Solid understanding and extensive working experience with microservices architecture
Solid experience with public APIs including API definition and change management
Proficiency with databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and DuckDB, including design and query optimization
Power user of latest AI tools and agent orchestration in all stages of software life cycle
Knowledge of HL7 and FHIR standards for healthcare data exchange is a strong plus
Familiarity with Linux environments and GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines
Experience in optimization of system performance, manage resources effectively, and improve execution time – esp. when dealing with large data volumes
Experience with scalable architecture, particularly in cloud environments and containerized infrastructure
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools…