Senior backend engineer (80-100%, m/f/d)

Festanstellung, Vollzeit · Pfäffikon

About Liom

Liom is a Swiss health-tech startup dedicated to revolutionizing the field of personalized health monitoring. Our objective is to develop the first health wearable monitoring glucose non-invasively. We will launch our wearable as a consumer product in the EU in H1’2027, and then as a medically cleared product in the US. Our team consists of over 80 staff, including more than 50 PhDs, with deep expertise in entrepreneurship, product development, and the required engineering as well as scientific disciplines. We are operating out of our lab facilities in Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland, and our office in San Francisco, United States.

Your mission

What could you build on top of real-time and non-invasive Glucose monitoring? That is what Liom is all about, and we want to beat Apple at it.

Machine learning, personalized health, and predictive medicine. If these areas resonate with you, join us to work on foundational technologic and scientific challenges at Liom. We are a Swiss health-tech venture with the vision to use state-of-the-art detection techniques to continuously monitor and learn from a wide range of vital indicators, to better manage chronic diseases, to customize critical treatments and, to improve your health.

Using proprietary optical sensors, Liom is building a cutting-edge biomedical data generation pipeline to train medical-grade Machine Learning algorithms to infer glucose transcutaneously from spectral measurements. To achieve our vision, our team and advisory board consist of world experts coming from top academic institutions (ETH, EPFL, Columbia, Princeton, or Harvard among others) and industry leaders (Baxter, Roche, Lonza). We are looking for talented, experienced, voraciously curious, and self-driven professionals to join an A-team of doers.

After 4+ years in R&D phase, we are sprinting towards product development phase, and launch to market. Therefore, joining the team will be highly rewarding and educational.

You will be at the core of our product delivery as part of our multi-disciplinary Software Engineering team. You will be responsible for building our backend services landscape inter-connecting services such as our Data Platform and Mobile App. We are building everything from ground-up and you will have the responsibility and freedom to make fundamental long-term decisions about our tech stack.

Your profile

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in writing software in one or more compiled programming languages (such as Java, C#, Go)
Experience in taking green-field projects from scratch to production and making long-term architectural decisions
Proficiency in building backend services for data intensive applications collecting and serving data to millions of users
Proven experience building highly secure, and re-usable authentication middleware
In-depth knowledge of containerization technologies and comfortable with deploying and maintaining your own infrastructure
Deep expertise in designing and delivering RESTful APIs serving both mobile and web applications
High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities, being comfortable in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Nice to have

Understanding of the regulatory environment with regards to processing and storage of highly sensitive health data in the US and EU (HIPAA, GDPR)
Previous experience building A/B testing and feature flag infrastructure
Familiarity with building backends serving ML models over REST APIs

We offer

Work/Life Balance
Working at a growing health-tech start-up is demanding and our goals are ambitious, which is why our team puts a strong emphasis on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Therefore, we offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal life.
Values and Mission are important at Liom, as the ultimate goal is to improve people's well-being and we aspire to live that. We will have the chance to discuss value and mission during the interview process.

Diversity
With 18 nationalities in the company, we strive to build a diverse and exciting environment. Within the SMLE team we take special care of gender diversity - currently balanced at 50/50 among the permanent employees- and equal opportunities.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We want you to grow with Liom.

Amazing team!
In this role, you will be part of the Software engineering, currently composed by awesome colleagues from which you will have the opportunity to learn a lot professionally, but also enjoy great conversations and fresh and well informed points of view. Additionally, you will be working closely with all R&D teams, including Biomedical Science, Biochemistry, Biophotonics, and Electrical Engineering.

Don't forget to check the team on our website!

Our recruitment process

The interview process consists of 3 stages:

Introduction call
Technical Interview
On-site interview

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About us

Liom is a Swiss health-tech venture with the vision to use state-of-the-art detection techniques to continuously monitor and learn from a wide range of vital medical indicators, allowing to improve your individual health.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Not all strong candidates will meet every single requirement as listed. We know that underrepresented groups more often doubt the strength of their candidacy, but we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to still submit an application if you're excited about this work and think your profile is overall a good fit!
We believe that products like the ones we’re building will have an impact on a very broad set of people, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. We would love to hear from you!

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