Senior Software Engineer

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

A healthier future is what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will join a team of talented engineers in crafting solutions to some of the most complex data plumbing problems in the world in diagnostics today. There are billions of data points generated in systems that are not only inaccessible but were never designed to talk to each other.

You will help create enterprise-scale software systems to tackle the fragmentation of this data. In this role, you will be up close and personal with all the usual things, like design conception, design reviews for components or features, development and testing of the core software stack.

Excellent communication skills and teamwork is a must!

The Opportunity

• This is a hands-on software development position to write high quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.

• Contribute to the design effort for a system component, plan & deliver high-quality software independently, maintaining excellence in execution.

• Participate in product design and development, customer training and support activities as needed.

• Provide guidance during code reviews, key technical decisions and in the design specification of products.

• Ensure seamless integration of the software stack with our existing CI pipeline, contributing to continuous improvements.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with strong computer science fundamentals.

• You have over 3 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable web applications and services, with proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and JPA.

• Experience in crafting relational data models, REST APIs, and implementing message broker-based distributed architectures (e.g., RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP), along with experience in both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases.

• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, with proficiency in Shell scripting and internals.

• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, API Gateway, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, and Autoscaling.

• Quick learner with the ability to understand complex workflows, develop & validate innovative solutions to solve difficult problems and effectively work with globally distributed teams.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Familiarity with DevOps automation tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible etc.

• Experience developing and deploying production software using public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.

• Passionate for continuous improvement in software development processes & framework.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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.