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.
Our differentiation lies in our unique quantum and statistical mechanics algorithms fueling a generative artificial intelligence to design novel drug candidates. The disruptive speed and accuracy of our technological platform enables us to scale drug discovery projects just like tech projects. Our endeavors are further underscored by prestigious partnerships with industry leaders, including prominent pharmaceutical companies, FrenchTech ecosystem, and esteemed investment funds.
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 are anxious to bring your wealth of knowledge and skills to the table 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)
About us
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.
- Our approach is completely unique in the industry, using AI & deep physics to discover new drugs.
- We are a team of +50 people from world-class institutions (AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, Harvard, Princeton, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG...).
- We are also a multinational team: our working language is English.
- Our founders boast : 10+ years of research experience at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, not to mention a stint at Oxford and Cambridge / 10+ years of strategy consulting experience at BCG.
- We recently signed a $140 million contract with Sanofi to accelerate their drug discovery.
- Global Series A fundraising of up to 60M€.
What can we offer
- Competitive salary and BSPCE policy
- Hybrid remote working policy: 2 days/week can be worked remotely
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Beautiful office in Paris, metro Pasteur (line 12)/Sèvres-Lecourbe (line 6)/Duroc (lines 13 & 10) - Montparnasse station less than 15 minutes walk.
- Alan mutuelle, Swile lunch card
- Transportation: green participation if you come by bike
- If needed: a relocation package to move to Paris, including various services to help you get settled
