Senior Software Engineer – Platform

🕒 July 28

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Owkin

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

🏥 Healthcare

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Artificial Intelligence • Healthcare Insurance

Owkin is a pioneering company operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. By integrating AI with complex biological data, Owkin aims to advance drug discovery and diagnostics, particularly in oncology. It collaborates with prominent academic centers and pharmaceutical companies to develop AI models that predict disease risk, identify novel biomarkers, and enhance clinical trials. Owkin's federated research network and multimodal data approach enable it to leverage extensive patient data while ensuring privacy, fostering innovation in treatments and diagnostics. Through collaborations and cutting-edge AI technologies, Owkin seeks to transform drug development and personalize patient treatment strategies.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services at the intersection of agentic AI and petabytes of multimodal patient data. • Own specific critical platform components end-to-end. • Drive technical standards, architectural reviews, and best practices across the engineering department. • Mentor junior/mid-level engineers. • Contribute to the design and evolution of our product architecture across a number of use cases of scalable scientific computing, data processing and AI engineering. • Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, researchers and data scientists to understand their needs and implement solutions that enhance their productivity. • Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices. • Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability. • Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data (security by design, vulnerability reduction). • Improve the modularity and the performance of our solution. • Improve the observability of the stack and increase its resiliency. • Contribute to and improve our development tooling and processes. • Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience (typically 7+ years) as a software engineer, demonstrating technical leadership in designing, deploying, and operating critical cloud infrastructure at scale. • Experience with either python or golang. • Strong experience in Docker. • Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) to improve software engineering efficiency and productivity • Management of cloud infrastructure as code, using terraform and kubernetes on AWS, Azure or GCP • Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for complex data at scale. • Demonstrated attention to quality and software engineering processes, including observability and security: we run what we build. • Full professional proficiency in English and async communication: our team is distributed across Europe.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work organization • Friendly and informal working environment • Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

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