Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer Opportunity at Doctolib Siilo

About Doctolib Siilo:

Siilo is a secure medical communication app designed for healthcare professionals. More than 900,000 healthcare professionals use Doctolib Siilo to discuss and coordinate patient care with colleagues both within and beyond their organisational walls. Today, Doctolib Siilo is the largest medical network in Europe.

Doctolib is a purpose-led company that strives for a healthier world with more than 2,800 employees across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. Doctolib serves more than 80 million Europeans, offering a fast, frictionless, and secure journey for all their care needs.

Siilo and Doctolib’s joint goal is to improve the daily life of care teams through a new generation of technologies.

Your job:

In the Senior Backend Engineer role at Doctolib Siilo, you’ll work alongside a team that is passionate about building and delivering great products and great customer experience.

You’ll be responsible for everything on the server-side of our products; from supporting our client developers with design and development of APIs, until monitoring that our applications and databases are secure and running smoothly in the AWS cloud. Alongside that, you’ll play an active role within our technical team, helping us shape our product vision and strategy.

This is a truly exciting role for an intelligent, self-motivated problem solver who has a track record of building industry changing software within early stage start-ups or scaling tech businesses. The opportunity that you have to drive our business forward in leaps and bounds is unparalleled!

You will be responsible for:

• Building, owning and maintaining Doctolib Siilo’s backend providing API’s for our mobile and web clients using Java 17, Spring Boot, Akka and more. Additionally contribute to our web based internal admin-tool (Angular).
• Managing and monitoring our cloud infrastructure at AWS that we are migrating to use “infrastructure-as-code” (Terraform) more and more
• Ensuring our user’s data is safe and secure by keeping security and privacy front and center to everything you do.
• Collaborating with your peers working on Android, iOS, web and Doctolib’s Rails backend building an awesome experience for our 650,000+ users and contributing directly to growing Doctolib Siilo's network of healthcare professionals.
• The full development life cycle, including communicating with stakeholders (for instance product, design, QA) throughout the development process, as well as debugging production issues.

What we’re looking for from you:

• 8+ years experience with API design and development using Java 8+ (we’re currently on Java 17)
• Experience running software on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
• Ideally experience with frameworks and libraries like Spring Boot, Akka and Protobuf
• Experience working with database technologies, preferably JPA, MySQL, MongoDb and Elasticsearch/Opensearch
• You enjoy figuring out why things work, not just that they work
• You’re fluent in English

Our team members are rewarded well, not only from a salary perspective but also with:

• 27 days of annual leave per year (and the ability to accrue more days on your work anniversary!)
• Flexibility days allowing to work in EU countries and the UK 10 days per year
• Learning & development opportunities
• Team spirit & creativity budget
• Solidarity Days (2 days per year to help health charities and create a positive social impact)
• Wellbeing program (free mental health and coaching offer with our partner moka.care)
• A flexible workplace policy offering a hybrid work mode
• Home office equipment allowance
• Reimbursement of public transportation if you live outside the Amsterdam highway ring
• Relocation support for international mobilities