Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Work Environment

• Remote role
• Based full time in Ireland or Romania

Visa

• Regrettably, we are unable to offer visa or work permit sponsorship for Romania OR Ireland.
• Applicants must already hold valid work permit

About us:

Deciphex is a digital pathology company building AI-driven diagnostic and research software in a regulated environment (GLP, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, EU MDR).

About this Role (Responsibilities):

We are seeking mission-driven back end engineers excited by the opportunity to contribute to meaningful innovation at the intersection of AI, life sciences, and digital health.

• Work with a mature cross functional agile teams on a hugely successful flagship product for the business
• Develop on-premise components, cloud microservices and and integrate with modern cloud platforms
• As an AI native team we use a variety of AI tools in our SDLC. We expect you to do the same / be familiar with using AI in Development.
• Design, develop and test architecture changes, product features and improvements
• Use containerization and cloud technology (compute, network and storage) to build, deploy and execute services and applications in the cloud
• Support product monitoring and troubleshooting to ensure high-quality standards
• Drive development team best practices and standards
• Participate in peer reviews and promote good quality, secure development practices
• Collaborate with other teams to improve existing products, services and tools
• Complete all mandatory company-wide compliance training and job-specific training required for the role, including QMS, ISMS, GxP, DocuSign, SDLC as applicable

About You (Skills and Experience):

• A Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or another related field is essential
• Experience working with AI in the SDLC e.g. Claude Code, BMAD etc.
• 6/7+ years of work experience in a similar development role is essential
• Extensive Experience in Java (certification a plus)
• Strong Spring ecosystem experience — Spring Boot and Spring Cloud (Gateway, Streams, Security/OAuth2, Spring Data)
• Experience with event-driven architecture / Apache Kafka, Distributed caching (i.e Hazelcast)
• Experience with web services, microservices and RESTful APIs
• Experience with CI/CD solutions, testing frameworks and build tools
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS Cloud, MongoDB Atlas, Mongo Lucene, Terraform, Skaffold, Helm
• Experience with other programming languages (Python, Javascript)
• Previous experience working in a regulated environment
• Experience in Agile development
• Strong English language and communication skills

The above Job Description reflects the requirements of this position at the time of issue. As duties and responsibilities change and develop, this will be reviewed and may be subject to amendments.

Values: What We Hire For Beyond Technical Skills:

Technical ability gets you in the room. How you work determines whether you're hired & thrive here.

Below qualities are assessed at every interview stage. They carry equal weight to your technical skills.

• Ownership: You follow through, raise issues, and see things to resolution. Completing the task is your baseline, not your finish line.
• Proactivity: You flag risks and refine approaches before being asked.
• Inquisitiveness: You are curious about the product, the system, and the patient impact behind. You are keen to continue using AI in the development process. You have moved beyond theory to actually doing something with AI.
• Adaptability: You make good judgement calls when requirements are unclear and priorities shift. You find a way forward without having to be told.
• Advocacy: You bring a quality engineering mindset into every conversation, not just the test phase.
• Root cause thinking: Yes finding issues matter. Understanding why it happened, & preventing it in future, matters more.
• Stay steady under pressure/ regular change: Make sound decisions with incomplete information, and adapt quickly when priorities shift without losing sight of quality code. (Engineering discipline)

What are the benefits of working with Deciphex?

• A true sense of meaning in your work by contributing to better patient outcomes
• The opportunity to work alongside a high-performing team in a fast-growth company with real momentum
• Challenging, unique projects at the intersection of AI, pathology, and regulated software
• Regular performance feedback and significant career development opportunities
• Flexible remote working with autonomy to manage your own work-life balance
• A highly collaborative, multicultural team spread across Europe and North America

About us

Through the work that we do, the team at Deciphex helps pharma accelerate essential drug development and helps patients receive timely and accurate diagnosis.

Founded in Dublin in 2017, Deciphex has scaled rapidly to a team of over 230 people providing software solutions to address the pathology gap in both research and clinical settings. We have offices in Dublin, Exeter, Oxford, and Chicago and are continuing to expand.

We are software developers, clinical specialists, AI engineers, operations professionals, and more, all working as one team to support our customers and the patients they serve. Our culture is built on trust. We give our team the space they need to deliver results and the environment to enjoy doing it.

Deciphex is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to the principle of equality. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, religious beliefs, political views, gender identity, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, family or marital status (including pregnancy), disability, membership of the travelling community or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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