About AQEMIA
AQEMIA is a next-gen pharmatech company generating one of the world's fastest-growing drug discovery pipeline.
Our mission is to design fast innovative drug candidates for dozens of critical diseases, such as immuno-oncology.
Our unique approach leverages quantum-inspired physics algorithms to power generative AI in designing novel drug candidates—without relying on experimental data.
We already delivered several drug discovery successes within our internal pipeline and through collaborations with pharmaceutical companies. Our most advanced programs are currently in vivo optimization.
About the team you’ll join
As a Software Engineer, you will join one of Aqemia's Engineering Team and contribute to design and build modern, reliable and scalable backends running complex biochemical simulations.
Your role as a senior software engineer at Aqemia :
- Design, build and evolve reliable and scalable services running biochemical algorithms
- Operate as a Technical Leader within an engineering team
- Contribute to engineering teams architecture and stack decisions process
- Be the go-to person, within your team software/backend design topics
- Contribute to define and set good coding practices within the engineering team
The competencies we are looking for :
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer within an engineering organisation of 20+ engineers
- Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure and products (AWS, other cloud experience is a plus)
- You are experienced finding the right balance between quality and fast iterations
- Experience leading and delivering technical projects from start to finish
- You know how to interact with technical stakeholders
- Proficient in at least one object-oriented language, python is a plus
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience in designing and architecting complex software
- DevOps knowledge would be appreciated
Preferred mindset
- You are eager to play an active role in contributing to Aqemia’s strategy to develop drugs for patients.
- You will bring wealth of knowledge and skills to inspire and coach brilliant people from diverse backgrounds.
- You are keen to solve tough problems on issues that truly matter, with a proactive and a can-do attitude.
- You thrive on working collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment that keeps everyone on track.
Our recruitment process :
- 1 - Hiring Manager’s interview: you’ll meet directly with your future manager Zeïd (1h, visio call)
- 2 - Technical assessment of your skills: live coding exercise in Python (45min, visio call)
- 3 - Technical assessment of your skills: system design collaborative exercise, plus a tour of our offices (1h, in office)
- 4 - Cultural fit interview with our co-founder and COO Emmanuelle (45min)
- 5 - Final interview with our co-founder and CEO Maximilien (45min)
Why Join Us ?
At AQEMIA, we work for a mission: joining us means having your own impact on changing the way drugs are discovered, and helping to shape the direction of our fast-growing company and team.
Expanding Drug Discovery Pipeline : Focused on critical diseases like immuno-oncology, with in vivo proof of concept/patent stage programs. Collaborations with top Pharma, including a $140M Sanofi deal.
Interdisciplinary Team : brilliant talent from tech and life sciences.
Experienced Leadership : Founders with 15+ years at ENS, Oxford, Cambridge, and BCG.
DeepTech Recognition: Part of French Tech 120 and France 2030.
Prime Location : Based in central Paris with the possibility of 2 remote days per week.
International Environment : English-speaking team with relocation support and French lessons if needed.
Strong Financial Backing : $60M raised from leading European deeptech investors
