Software Engineer (Barcelona)

Key Skills

AngularJS, Common data structures, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Effective communication skills, Java Programming, Python Programming, Scala Programming, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Job Description

As a science-driven healthcare analytics company with a rapidly growing customer base, we are seeking multiple software engineers across levels of responsibility and technological expertise to strengthen our pluri-disciplinary engineering team in Barcelona.

As a software engineer, you will contribute to all parts of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You will play a key role in defining problems, designing solutions, and executing to achieve results. You will collaborate with other engineers to lead continuous improvements, refactoring, and rearchitecting to meet the growing expectations of our legacy system.

You will also partner cross-functionally with our product and science teams to provide insights on technology advancements contributing to increased scalability, reliability, and availability for Aetion’s platform.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Different roles are available. Depending on your role: Work to enhance our analytics engine, refine our data ingestion capabilities, further automate our infrastructure and tooling, or enrich one of our rapid-cycle full-stack analytic applications.
• Develop and document highly performant and scalable component and software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Provide expertise on devising technical solutions, and make shrewd judgment calls on when and how to invest in tactical vs. strategic solutions.
• Implement automated tests to validate changes to the codebase, and generally to increase overall coverage.
• Provide insights and suggest technology advancements for the codebase’s scalability, reliability, and availability.
• Mentor, guide, and develop less senior engineers.
• Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance, as well as faster onboarding of new hires.
• Collaborate closely with our product, design, and science teams to understand the needs of our clients.

QUALIFICATIONS*:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience writing production-level code in Java, Python, or Scala for Senior-level engineers (7+ years for Staff-level engineers.)
• Full stack engineers should have proven TypeScript experience instead, ideally combined with some Java experience.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• If SRE is your specialty: Experience with containerized, distributed systems using Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• If full stack development is your specialty: Experience with high proficiency with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
• Agile Methodology experience leveraging CI/CD.
• Experience with big datasets.
• Ability to prioritize, communicate well, design for repeatability and scalability, exude ownership, and dig beneath the hood with technology.
• Enthusiastic about working in highly collaborative team environments, including partnering with product teams to find creative solutions for challenging engineering problems.