Senior Backend (Full-stack) Engineer
On-siteZürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Job Summary
Design and maintain scalable backend services and APIs primarily in Java/Spring that power our clinical trial data platform. Model, store, and query complex data efficiently in Postgres, while implementing integrations and pipelines to ingest and process data from multiple sources. Collaborate with frontend teams to define API contracts and contribute full-stack changes when needed to ship features. Ensure high availability, observability, and security through monitoring, testing, and operational best practices. Participate in technical planning, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to improve team effectiveness. This on-site role in Zürich requires ownership of architecture and implementation, working across the stack to solve hard problems around scalability and performance in a fast-paced startup environment.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience building and operating backend services in production
- Ideally with Java, Spring, and relational databases like Postgres
- A solid understanding of system design, data modeling, and performance optimization for data-intensive applications
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and containerized environments (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes)
- A track record of taking ownership of projects, from design through to deployment and maintenance
- Ability and willingness to work across the stack when required to deliver high-quality product experiences
- Clear communication, collaborative mindset, and enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving startup environment
- Passion for iterative product development
- Strategic, analytical mindset
- Comfortable navigating the uncertainties of a startup environment
- Adaptable to shifting priorities
- Driven to transform the pharmaceutical industry
- Comfortable contributing across the stack when needed
- Based on-site in our Zürich office
Desired Qualifications
- Typescript
- React
- Python
- GPT-4
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