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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.
The Position
Who We Are
At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.
Role Purpose (Summary Of Position)
Developing software is great, but developing software with a purpose is even better! As a Principal Backend Software Engineer, you’ll work on a product that helps people with the most precious thing they have — their health. In collaborative teams of engineers, designers, product owners, and QA experts, you’ll experience best-in-class software development practices daily and contribute to software that meets the highest expectations — we do not put our users' lives at risk!
Here’s what we’re looking for:
We are looking for an experienced, motivated Principal Backend Software Engineer who will work closely with their backend colleagues, and who ideally has built digital products and platforms. As a code-magician, you will support our efforts to improve the digital health ecosystem. You will contribute with your knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, relational databases & REST within our agile and cross-functional teams. As a flexible and open-minded person with a passion for clean code you will be a perfect addition to our team. We are committed to quality, dedicating time to code reviews, test coverage, quality days and CI/CD principles. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you!
You will be part of the Platform Engineering chapter working on our navify platform.
Essentials skills for your mission:
* At least 8 years of experience working as a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree, including 5 years as backend engineer
* You are familiar with the following backend technologies: Java 21+ and frameworks like Spring Boot 3+
* SQL and relational databases (e.g.PostgreSQL) are second nature to you
* You have experience with OpenID Connect standard and Keycloak or other open source software product that allows single sign-on with identity and access management
* You enjoy developing clean, stable, testable, and performant backend code, serving our beautiful applications
* You are passionate about solid technical design, clean code, and future-proof architectures
* You have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud providers
Bonus skills:
* Experienced in automated testing with Selenium or Selenide
* Knowledge of Infra as Code, Terraform and Github Actions
* Understanding of medical, security, and privacy regulations
* Knowledge of the diabetes industry or other comparable health industries
Here's what you can expect from us:
* Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products for a global audience
* An innovative agile working environment allowing for collaboration with really smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams
* A growing organization with room for development
* Loads of benefits (brand new Apple hardware, public transport, lunch benefit, language classes, professional training budget,...)
* Flexible home office policy
* Oh, and did we mention the best team in the world!
You will learn about the wide range of technologies we employ, from native mobile development to infrastructure-as-code in our cloud environment, gaining a rich understanding of the specific requirements of medical software, be it security, medical risk management, safe and resilient programming, or certifications and audits.
You will have direct contact with our users, learning about their daily struggles living with diabetes, as well as customers and partners, understanding the unique needs and mechanics of healthcare systems worldwide.
Interested? Great. We’d like to hear from you! Just click that “Apply Now” button and send us your CV… and anything else you think might impress us.
Locations
You will be based in Sant Cugat, Spain, or Vienna, Austria.
As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.
Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.
Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
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Full-time
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Research, Science, and Engineering
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Biotechnology Research, and Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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