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Python Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
Python Engineer on Saphetor's backend team, developing server-side logic and maintaining the Python web application stack behind the VarSome suite of bioinformatic tools.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Develop server-side logic that delivers high performance and responsive communication between front-end and back-end systems
- Maintain and advance the Python web application stack, including VarSome Clinical, VarSome.com, and the VarSome API
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality, architecture discussions, critical testing, performance optimization, and frontend coordination, owning custom client functionality end-to-end
- Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and domain experts to scope work, unblock dependencies, and deliver cohesive features
- Participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations as needed, taking shared responsibility
What we're looking for
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- At least 3 years of working experience as a back-end engineer working with Python in Django/Django Rest Framework in a production environment
- Solid understanding of software design principles and best practices
- Familiarity with building RESTful APIs and actively participating in code reviews
- Good experience working with relational databases
- Familiarity with unit, integration and functional testing to ensure code reliability
- Flexible mindset, comfortable stepping into a variety of roles as needed
- Eagerness to explore new technology stacks and step out of your comfort zone
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
Nice to have
- Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform
- Working knowledge of Bootstrap, React JS, or other frontend frameworks
- Familiarity with Ansible for automating configuration management
- Some bioinformatics background — or a genuine willingness to dive into the domain
- MariaDB experience strongly preferred
Your team
backend team
Benefits
- A position in a fascinating healthcare growth domain, at the cutting edge of technology and research
- A competitive
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About Saphetor
Saphetor is a Swiss precision medicine company with offices in Lausanne (CH), Boston (USA), and Athens (GR) employing a diverse global workforce. It has built the VarSome suite of bioinformatic tools, the world's leading resource for analysis and interpretation of human genome variant data.
Mission
To enable anyone to find, share, and use the most comprehensive human genome data – and to collaborate to improve health and lives around the world.
Key facts
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- precision medicine / bioinformatics
- VarSome suite has more than 6000 citations in scientific papers
- Over 60000 registered professional users
- Customers work around the globe across academic, clinical, and industry laboratories, analysing NGS data for research and diagnostic purposes
- Offices in Lausanne (CH), Boston (USA), and Athens (GR)
- Talent pool spread across Europe with a strong culture of remote collaboration
- Team is highly experienced in distributed Agile workflows and communicates exclusively in fluent English