Are you interested in learning how we have been improving everyday patient’s lives through developing software platforms that utilize genomic data?

At BC Platforms, we are looking for new members to join our ever growing Software Development team that builds software platforms aimed at utilizing genomic and clinical data for healthcare organizations, research institutions, pharmaceutical groups, laboratories around the world.

Our team works in cooperation with the industry-leading cloud partners and life scientists so this is a unique opportunity to learn about the newest trends and technologies inside the multidisciplinary field of HIT (Healthcare Information Technology). We are a diverse community of scientists, bioinformaticians, engineers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists that share a 25-year-and-still-going-strong mission across continents. We at BC Platforms leverage the latest science, unique technology capabilities, and strategic partnerships to achieve our mission of Revolutionizing Drug Discovery and Personalizing Care.

If you want to be part of our mission train, let us hear from you!

Your role in our mission:

• Produce high-quality software

• Implement new features and bug fixes as part of the software development team.

• Get familiar with functional specifications by consulting with e.g. Product Managers in order to be able to turn the specifications into a usable product

• Take responsibility for your own code and quality of it

• Implement functional requirements advised from the Product Manager or Lead Software Developer

• Comprehend the whole codebase including frontend, backend, database and integrated services

• Coordinate work with other software developers

• Help contribute to our culture of open communication, supporting others and having a technical ambition to move forward

Desired experience and skills for this role:

• Full-stack programming skills (we use React and Spring Boot but appreciate experience with any other stacks). Know any of these technologies below?
  • Front-end:

    • HTML/HTML5

    • CSS/SASS/POSTCSS/LESS/BEM or others

    • Javascript

    • Typescript

    • React

    • Redux/Mobx

    • ElasticUi/MaterialUI

    • SPA/MPA, SSR, NextJs, Gatsby

  • Back-end:

    • RESTful service design and microservices

    • Java/NodeJs, Spring/Express,

    • PostgreSQL/SQL/NoSQL

    • Security (CSRF, XSS, SQL Injection, XML bomb, or others)

  • Cloud and Infrastructure:

    • Kubernetes/Docker

    • Jenkins

    • Github/Gitlab

No need to tick every box, believe in yourself and apply! We only wish that you have the willingness to learn new technologies. If you have public projects on GitHub or similar, please mention them in your application.

• Bonus if you know:

  • Agile software development practices

  • GCP/AWS/Azure

  • Basics of bioinformatics

What we offer:

• Learning & Development
  Opportunity to learn from great and talented colleagues on meaningful work content and grow your competencies through BC Academy and BC Associate Programme. BC Platforms is committed to develop its Learning & Development Programme to further it in a continuous path of improvement.

• Talented colleagues in great locations
  BC Platforms has offices in Zurich, Greater Helsinki, Boston, Singapore and a legal entity in the UK across three continents. Part of our people work also from the home offices from different locations around the globe.

• Company Events
  We have our bi-annual BC|Days Events which are dedicated to our strategy work having all our people involved. We also host BC|Afterwork events occasionally for developing relationships and a sense of community.

• Competitive compensation
  We offer a competitive salary and Incentive Programme. When the company reaches its targets, everyone gets to enjoy the success. We emphasize the long-term impact and reward our people for their success on the long-term growth of the company.

• Healthcare & Wellbeing
  Our people’s health and wellbeing is important to us. We offer private healthcare plans or healthcare insurance plans and travel insurances for all of our employees.

• Work-life balance
  As much as we are eager to work with our colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, we provide a good work-life balance with flexible hours and paid time off.

• Work equipment
  We want to offer you a great onboarding also from the equipment point of view. You will receive a laptop, a mobile phone and headphones. In addition, we offer you a variety of tools and lots of learning regarding our state-of-the-art software solutions.

• Free snacks and beverages

Additional Information

This position is located in the Technopolis Hub in Espoo, Finland as part of our R&D function. The company operates with a Hybrid Work Model, which consists of both working from the office as well as remotely from the home office.

Application

Application is considered on a rolling basis. Send us your application via our Career Site https://careers.bcplatforms.com/jobs

If you have public projects on GitHub or similar, please mention them in your application. With any questions related to the job description, please send them to juhani.kahara@bcplatforms.com. For inquiries regarding recruitment and applications process, please contact bi.nguyen@bcplatforms.com or call directly to +358 50 350 1208 (Bi).

Who we are

BC Platforms is a global leader in providing a powerful data and technology platform for personalized medicine and drug development, accelerating the translation of insights into clinical practice.

BC Platforms operates the Global Data Partner Network BCRQUEST.com, which provides access and analytics on genomic and clinical cohort data for drug developers currently providing access to over 33m subjects across five continents.

Our technology drives the infinite loop between personalized care and research discoveries, leveraging latest science, deep technical expertise, strategic partnerships, and harmonized, diverse data collections.

Our high performing platforms enable high throughput genomic data production, flexible data integration, secure data management, efficient analysis and interpretation of molecular and clinical information.

Founded in 1997 from an MIT Whitehead project spinoff, the Company has a strong scientific heritage underpinned by over 20 years of working in close collaboration with a network of leading researchers, developers, manufacturers and vendors. BC Platforms has global operations with its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, research and development in Espoo, Finland, and sales and marketing in Boston, USA, London, UK and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.bcplatforms.com.