Senior Backend Engineer / Tech Lead (Data Management) (d/f/m)

Why us?

We believe that AI has the potential to revolutionize how cancer and other complex diseases are diagnosed and treated. We also believe that AI is a tool, not an identity – without access to high quality data and a scientifically rigorous, transparent approach to model development, AI is just a buzzword. That’s where we come in.

Aignostics is a spin-off from one of Europe's largest and most prestigious university hospitals (Charité), with employees in Berlin and New York. We have received over $50M in funding from leading investors and are a growing team of over 100 interdisciplinary professionals. We work with academic partners as well as leading global life sciences companies.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Aignostics, you work hand in hand with our collaborators in academia and industry to push the state of the art for digital pathology. You are part of our journey to provide software for medical devices that will help to improve cancer research and diagnostics. You build data infrastructure and transactional services powering our external and internal APIs. You scope, drive and own projects and services that support scaling in a data intensive setting and lead the improvement of our SaaS product and our services.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fun, diverse, and growing team of 100+ data scientists, software developers, biologists, and pathologists to shape the next generation of cancer treatments. You will be part of a driven community that works in an agile, supportive and interdisciplinary research environment where your results make a difference to patients. In our established startup you have the opportunity to grow personally and technically, take responsibility and benefit from a dynamic work environment.

At Aignostics, we believe that fighting cancer is a job for people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures. We value and celebrate diversity and inclusion and are committed to offering equal employment and promotion opportunities for all applicants and employees. Applicants will be considered regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, etc. We thrive through collaboration and believe the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Where your expertise is needed

• Help us in building the infrastructure to work with medical image data on a large scale: 
  
  

1. Design and develop services and core libraries that enable our SaaS platform


2. Ensure reliable, high throughput access to our data for machine learning


3. Maintain and expand our data management infrastructure

• Lead initiatives, evaluate new technologies and their integration into our current codebase


• Eagerness to take ownership - from inception to completion - without losing focus on the business context


• Communicate closely with our frontend and machine learning teams


• Perform code reviews, considering readability, design and performance

What we are looking for

• Bachelor and/or Master in a relevant field or extensive work experience


• 6+ years of software development experience, ,in a data intensive environment


• Experience leading a technical initiative ideally with cross-team impact


• Strong background in software development ideally with Python


• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS) and their services


• Experience with container orchestration (preferable Kubernetes)


• Experience with database systems


• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, code reviews and other standards to keep up code quality


• Driven self-starter, well-organized, excellent communication skills and a strong team player

Ideally, you also have:

• Experience in leading a team


• Experience with data processing systems


• Developed software in an regulated environment

We are still keen to hear from you if you don't match all the above bonus points! Our needs are diverse and growing and you are encouraged to apply if you have any combination of these skills. The recruitment process is a comparative exercise and decisions will be made based on the applications we review at each time.

Our offer

• Join a purpose-driven start up: We are working collectively to fight cancer and improve patient outcomes. Come help us make a difference!


• Cutting-edge AI research and development, with involvement of Charité, TU Berlin and our other partners


• Work with a welcoming, diverse and highly international team of colleagues


• Opportunity to take responsibility and grow your role within the startup


• Expand your skills by benefitting from our Learning & Development yearly budget of 1,000€ (plus 2 L&D days), language classes and internal development programs


• Mentoring program, you’ll learn from great experts


• Flexible working hours and teleworking policy


• Enjoy your well-deserved time off within our 30 paid vacations days per year


• We are family & pet friendly and support flexible parental leave options


• Pick a subsidized membership of your choice among public transport, sports and well-being


• Enjoy our social gatherings, lunches, and off-site events for a fun and inclusive work environment


• Optional company pension scheme

Join us to make a difference!