Software Engineer – Backend - Azurion Eye

Philips; Best; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Software Engineer - Backend for Azurion Eye to join a data-driven, AI-enabled clinical platform. You will design secure backend services and microservices, build scalable data pipelines, and contribute to observing and tuning the system in a regulated healthcare environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, UX/design, QA, data/AI, and engineering teams, with an on-site work pattern and strong focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of end-to-end software development experience including design, development, testing and troubleshooting.
• Strong backend expertise in Golang and REST API design with emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and containerized microservices.
• Solid database design and performance tuning skills in PostgreSQL or MS SQL.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to engineering best practices; mentor junior engineers.
• Design and build secure, compliant backend services and microservices for clinical data platforms.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and data movement workflows.
• Build and maintain data pipelines within the data lake architecture for performance and governance.
• Participate in code reviews, testing automation, CI/CD, and observability.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Collaborative teamwork

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Golang

REST API design (Swagger/OpenAPI)

Event-driven architectures (NATS/Kafka/RabbitMQ)

Docker/Kubernetes

PostgreSQL / MS SQL

Linux

CI/CD & Observability

Job description

Job Title Software Engineer - Backend - Azurion Eye

Job Description

Web Back End Developer Azurion Eye

Join Azurion Eye - an integrated, AI-enabled clinical software platform embedded in the Azurion ecosystem. As Senior Web back-end developer within the AI Operator domain, you will build REST-based, microservice-first backend services and data curation workflows that power our clinical data lake and data movement tooling (viewing, uploading, downloading). You will develop secure, high-performance, compliant data services and pipelines that reliably support imaging workflows and connected solutions in a regulated environment.

Your Role

• Contribute to engineering best practices; support and mentor junior engineers.
• Design and build secure, compliant backend services and microservices supporting clinical data platforms and data movement.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and

Build and maintain data pipelines within our data lake architecture to ensure performance, governance, and reliability.

• Ensure system quality through code reviews, performance optimization, testing automation, CI/CD, and observability (monitoring/alerting).
• Maintain operational excellence by integrating components and resolving production issues (e.g., ingestion failures, schema drift, performance bottlenecks)
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (product, UX/design, QA, data/AI, and engineering teams) to define, design, and ship features aligned with clinical and platform needs.

You're The Right Fit If

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of end-to-end software development experience, including design, development, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Strong backend expertise in Golang and REST API design (Swagger/OpenAPI) with focus on reliability, resilience, and observability.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., NATS/Kafka/RabbitMQ), Linux environments, and containerized microservices (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Solid database design and performance tuning skills (e.g., PostgreSQL/MS SQL), plus familiarity with cloud-native and DevOps practices.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills, with ability to mentor engineers and operate effectively in agile environments (medical/regulated experience is a plus).

How We Work Together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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