Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer, Basel

Job Summary As a Software Engineer on our Solutions Engineering team, you will build robust, scalable, and reusable capabilities for our shared data platform. You will work closely with Data Engineers, Product Leaders, and scientific partners to design and implement systems that unlock the potential of our diverse scientific data. Your work will directly contribute to accelerating the discovery and development of life‑changing treatments for patients.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure technical excellence by delivering innovative, best‑in‑class data flows and pipelines across key scientific domains

Promote the adoption of key trends and technologies by applying an Open Source, Cloud First, API First, and AI First approach to problem‑solving

Improve our data workflows and application architecture by leveraging standard patterns like microservices and event‑driven design

Integrate diverse data sets to power AI/ML, Natural Language Search, and downstream visualization and analytics tools

Facilitate the implementation of cutting‑edge AI models that take advantage of advances in machine learning

Influence technical decisions around data workflows and application development in collaboration with key partners

Learn and deeply understand our Data Ecosystem to drive continuous improvement and innovation

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience, plus 2+ years of relevant software engineering experience

Experience in full‑stack development, with working knowledge of frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue) and backend (e.g., Python, Java) technologies

Experience with databases, data analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL/ELT), and APIs (REST, GraphQL)

Experience with SDLC best practices including versioning, testing, observability, CI/CD, etc

Experience working on cloud‑native architectures in a public cloud environment, ideally AWS

Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to think strategically to optimize for long‑term goals

Proven ownership of system design decisions from requirements through production

Preferred experience working in the pharmaceutical industry, using agile software development methodology, and using agentic coding tools producing maintainable code

The Global Grade for this role is: SE5 and SE6 to align with the Software Engineer and Sr. Software Engineer title.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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