Back-end Engineer

Karavela; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open-ended contract (CDI)

Competitive compensation

Equity options

25 days paid time off

Partial remote work possible

Job summary

A neuroscience research company is seeking a developer in Paris to enhance data storage solutions for MRI data collection. The role involves building back-end features of the data collection platform and maintaining these services. Ideal candidates will have experience with production-ready data storage solutions, Python, S3, and handling healthcare data. This full-time position offers a CDI contract with competitive compensation and the possibility for partial remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience with setting up and maintaining data storage solutions of production-ready services.
• Experience handling healthcare data.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Developing the storage solution used to collect and store MRI data.
• Developing back-end features of the data collection platform.
• Maintaining services and features.

Skills

Data storage solutions

S3

Postgres

Edge functions

Python

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

S3

PostgreSQL

Edge functions

Python

Job description

Context

Karavela is a neuroscience research company established in 2025 and currently based in Paris, France. We build a foundation model of the human brain relying on next-generation magnetic resonance. To do so, Karavela is collecting a very large MRI dataset from healthy volunteers listening to naturalistic stimuli (e.g., audiobooks, podcasts, radio programmes). This dataset is then used to train deep learning models that can reconstruct the stimuli from recorded brain activity. The goal is to leverage the representations learnt by these models in downstream applications, in particular by providing biomarkers for neurological and psychiatric diseases in clinical trials. Karavela is currently organised into 3 teams that each focus on one of the aforementioned aspects: data collection, model development, and clinical applications.

Position summary

• developing the storage solution used to collect and store Karavela's MRI data;
• developing back-end features of Karavela's data collection platform (showing stimuli to participants, collecting acquisition centres' logs, sending useful notifications, etc);
• maintaining these services and features.

Qualifications

• experience with setting up and maintaining data storage solutions of production-ready services;
• experience with S3, postgres, edge functions, dagelijkse and python;
• experience handling healthcare data;
• excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment;
• strong communication skills.

Benefits

• open-ended contract (CDI);
• competitive compensation, depending on experience;
• equity options;
• 25 days of paid time off per year;
• full-time position in Paris, partial remote work is possible.