Senior Software Engineer — AI-Driven Health Platform

Phia LLC; Boston; Hybrid; PHP 4,478,000 - 9,035,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision benefits

401K retirement plan

Disability insurance

FSA commuter benefits

PTO 20 days (25 with tenure)

Sick days 5

Public holidays 14

Employee assistance program

Job summary

SOPHiA GENETICS in Boston, MA invites a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable healthcare software components across the SOPHiA DDM platform. This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office and offers meaningful impact on cancer and rare disease data.

You will work on APIs, microservices, and data workflows, using Java, Micronaut, Kafka, and observability tools, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency, and new integrations with hospital systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a comparable role, holding a bachelor’s or master’s degree (or higher)
• Solid proficiency in Java for backend services
• Solid understanding and extensive working experience with microservices architecture
• Solid experience with public APIs including API definition and change management
• Proficiency with databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and DuckDB, including design and query optimization
• Power user of latest AI tools and agent orchestration in all stages of software life cycle
• Knowledge of HL7 and FHIR standards for healthcare data exchange is a strong plus
• Familiarity with Linux environments and GitLab for version control and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in optimization of system performance, manage resources effectively, and improve execution time – esp. when dealing with large data volumes
• Experience with scalable architecture, particularly in cloud environments and containerized infrastructure
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Loki
• React.js experience for front end development is a strong plus
• Experience with Micronaut for developing microservices and backend solutions is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Kafka is a plus
• Experience in genomics is beneficial

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and continuously improve robust services that are scalable and efficient while fitting into overall system architecture
• Implement new features and enhancements across SOPHiA DDM core components, public API as well as middleware layer to enable setup of new integrations with external hospital systems of our customers
• Support existing live integrations with customers, propose and implement enhancements based on customer feedback and to achieve system robustness goals
• Ensure components perform reliably under high workloads, optimize system performance, resource utilization, and task execution times, contribute to improvements in system stability
• Optimize deployment workflows, automate pipelines, and enhance infrastructure management for efficient and reliable application deployment
• Implement and maintain monitoring systems to track performance and identify bottlenecks, use existing observability tools like Grafana and Loki to provide insights into operational health
• Use cutting edge AI tools and software engineering best practices to boost productivity across all workstreams

Skills

Java backend

Microservices

Public APIs

Databases

Linux

GitLab CI/CD

Observability

Cloud & containers

React.js

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Micronaut

Kafka

React.js

Job description

SOPHiA GENETICS in Boston, MA invites a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable healthcare software components across the SOPHiA DDM platform. This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office and offers meaningful impact on cancer and rare disease data.

You will work on APIs, microservices, and data workflows, using Java, Micronaut, Kafka, and observability tools, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency, and new integrations with hospital systems.