Software Engineer - Materials Management

Dassault Systèmes; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Competitive salary & benefits

Career development programs

Global collaborative environment

Job summary

Dassault Systèmes in Cambridge is seeking a Software Engineer - Materials Management to join a cloud-only SaaS team. You will contribute to backend features, scalable APIs, and multi-tenant cloud deployments within the Materials Management service of the BIOVIA suite, collaborating with an agile, international group of software professionals.

You will work on modern backend tooling, drive code quality through peer reviews, and help shape roadmaps while maintaining deep test coverage and high

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, STEM, or related discipline.
• RESTful API design for large-scale SaaS.
• Experience with automated backend testing (JUnit, Mocha/Jest).
• Ownership mindset, agile, and proactive communication.
• Interest in materials science or scientific informatics.

Responsibilities

• Build out a broad set of new backend features enabling complex scientific workflows in entirely new business areas.
• Shape project roadmaps, ensuring deep test coverage and a highly maintainable, resilient codebase.
• Proactively research and introduce cutting-edge backend tools, design patterns, and engineering practices to the team.
• Enhance data processing pipelines, concurrency models, and multi-tenant capabilities for public and private cloud deployments.
• Lead and participate in rigorous peer reviews, ensuring a clean, robust, and maintainable codebase.

Skills

RESTful APIs

Automated backend testing

Ownership & Agile mindset

English communication

Materials science interest

Education

Degree in Computer Science, STEM, or related

Tools

JUnit

Mocha/Jest

Angular 21+

RxJS

SPARQL

Job description

As a Software Engineer - Materials Management, you will be based in our Cambridge office, working as part of an agile team of experienced and dedicated software engineers contributing to the Materials Management service. As a cloud-only SaaS solution that provides management and identification of material and substance definitions, this service forms a strategically important role and underpins a great many of the workflows and capabilities supported by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
The Materials Management service is part of a growing suite of cloud-based scientific software solutions that the BIOVIA brand (Scientific Software: Accelerate Your Scientific Innovation | BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes) is developing, delivered by a talented group of software professionals located in Europe, United States and Asia. You’ll be joining the team at an exciting time as we transition from initial Go Live through Minimum Viable Product and ultimately to the best in class solution for our customers.

Role Description & Responsibilities

• Drive Product Evolution: Build out a broad set of new backend features enabling complex scientific workflows in entirely new business areas
• Champion Continuous Delivery: Shape project roadmaps, ensuring deep test coverage and a highly maintainable, resilient codebase
• Innovate & Modernise: Proactively research and introduce cutting-edge backend tools, design patterns, and engineering practices to the team
• Optimize Cloud Architecture: Enhance data processing pipelines, concurrency models, and multi-tenant capabilities for public and private cloud deployments
• Elevate Code Quality: Lead and participate in rigorous peer reviews, ensuring a clean, robust, and maintainable codebase

Qualifications

We are looking for a dedicated backend or server-side specialist. While we value full-stack adaptability, your core passion and expertise lie in building rock-solid server-side logic and scalable APIs. If you already have many of the following attributes and are excited to learn the rest, we would love to hear from you:

• Education: Degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a related scientific/engineering discipline
• API Design: Proven experience building secure, backward-compatible, and high-performance RESTful APIs for large-scale SaaS environments
• Testing Excellence: Passionate about quality, with experience using automated backend testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Mocha/Jest)
• Mindset: A strong sense of ownership, an agile mindset, and excellent English communication skills
• Experience working with RDF databases / graph databases and querying with SPARQL
• A passion or academic interest in materials science, chemistry, biology, or scientific informatics software
• Experience or familiarity with client-side development (Angular 21+, RxJS) to support full-stack collaboration when needed

What’s in it for you

• Global Culture: A vibrant, diverse, and deeply collaborative international work environment
• True Balance: Flexible working hours paired with a modern hybrid working model
• Growth & Mentorship: Extensive, structured career development programs to help you scale your skills
• Total Rewards: A highly competitive salary and a comprehensive, premium benefits package

Inclusion statement

As a game-changer in sustainable technology and innovation, Dassault Systèmes is striving to build more inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. We believe that our people are our number one asset and we want all employees to feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. It is our goal that our people feel a sense of pride and a passion for belonging. As a company leading change, it’s our responsibility to foster opportunities for all people to participate in a harmonized Workforce of the Future.

BIOVIA provides scientific solutions to discover, design, develop and deliver innovative drugs, materials and formulas.