We’re looking for a data and technology-oriented Senior Software Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centers in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients’ real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.

What You'll Do
This role will design and develop technology in partnership with software engineering teams in the UK, Germany, and Japan. Additionally, this role will collaborate with other Flatiron employees in the US, and work day-to-day with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them.

• Contribute to shaping the direction of team roadmaps and technology development
• Lead and mentor the team in implementing robust technical best practices and tooling encompassing deployment, testing, and rapid prototyping to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Help build our European engineering teams and company culture as we grow
• Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges
• Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure quality and security
• Promote technical excellence and elegant infrastructure design with teammates and customers
• Work with complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools
• Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in Germany, including data sources, security, privacy, information governance requirements, and emerging trends

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback, and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.  

• You’re an experienced software engineer with a minimum of 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• You are excited to work in a startup environment, think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done 
• You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
• You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
• You have experience with agile development environments using object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C#, SQL), but are also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
• You have some experience working with cloud platforms like AWS or data warehouse solutions like Snowflake
• You act as an expert in your domain area, and as a partner with product teams
• You understand the purpose of  “boring” technology (as described in this blog post) and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done
• You can collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience; you have strong verbal and written communication skills
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn
• You are fluent in English

Extra Credit

• You have experience working in healthcare in Germany or exposure to healthcare-related standards like HL7
• You have some experience building and deploying web applications and experience with frontend work
• You have experience collaborating with UI/UX designers to iterate on user interfaces with the customer in mind
• You hold a bachelors, masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
• You have experience in machine learning, data engineering, infrastructure, devops, or security engineering
• You are conversational in German

Who We Are

Our people are at the center of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.