Senior Software Engineer

About the team you’ll join 🤼‍♀️As a Software Engineer, you will join one of Aqemia's Engineering Team and contribute to design and build modern, reliable and scalable backends running complex biochemical simulations.

Your role as a senior software engineer at Aqemia 👩🏼‍💻

• Design, build and evolve reliable and scalable services running biochemical algorithms
• Operate as a Technical Leader within an engineering team
• Contribute to engineering teams architecture and stack decisions process
• Be the go-to person, within your team software/backend design topics
• Contribute to define and set good coding practices within the engineering team

The competencies we are looking for 🔍

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer within an engineering organisation of 20+ engineers
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure and products (AWS, other cloud experience is a plus)
• You are experienced finding the right balance between quality and fast iterations
• Experience leading and delivering technical projects from start to finish
• You know how to interact with technical stakeholders
• Proficient in at least one object-oriented language, python is a plus
• Knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in designing and architecting complex software
• DevOps knowledge would be appreciated
Preferred mindset
• You are eager to play an active role in contributing to Aqemia’s strategy to develop drugs for patients.
• You are anxious to bring your wealth of knowledge and skills to the table to inspire and coach brilliant people from diverse backgrounds.
• You are keen to solve tough problems on issues that truly matter, with a proactive and a can-do attitude.
• You thrive on working collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment that keeps everyone on track.

Our recruitment process 🤝

• 1 - Hiring Manager’s interview: you’ll meet directly with your future manager Aloÿs (1h, visio call)
• 2 - Technical assessment of your skills: live coding exercise in Python (45min, visio call)
• 3 - Technical assessment of your skills: system design collaborative exercise, plus a tour of our offices (1h, in office)
• 4 - Cultural fit interview with our co-founder and COO Emmanuelle (45min)
• 5 - Final interview with our co-founder and CEO Maximilien (45min)

About who we are and our workplace environment ✨• We signed a contract with Sanofi of $140M to accelerate their drug discovery• Our approach is completely unique in the industry as we use AI & deep physics to discover new drugs• We are a team of +50 people from world-class institutions (AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, Harvard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG)• Our Founders boast : 10+ years experience in research at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, not to mention a stint in Oxford and Cambridge / 10+ years experience in strategy consulting at BCG.• We are located in the center of Paris (1 Bd Pasteur), with a possibility of up to 2 days of remote work.• We are part of the French Tech 2030 program (https://lafrenchtech.com/fr/la-france-aide-les-startup/french-tech-2030/).• Our working language is English• We work for a mission: joining us means bringing your own impact on changing the way medicines are discovered and be involved in shaping the direction of our fast growing business and team.
If you feel that you fit only 70% to 80% of this job description but you’re still excited to join, then please get in touch! ‍
Aqemia is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or any other basis under applicable law.