Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Term)
Flatiron Health3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy robust software solutions for securely accessing, transferring, and transforming patient data.
- Drive technical objectives, lead architectural decisions, and align work with global engineering standards.
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of data extraction and web applications.
- Solve business, security, and data privacy challenges.
- Lead hands-on solution deployments at hospital partner premises and troubleshoot local infrastructure, networks, and technical constraints.
- Mentor and guide other engineers while fostering technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with global colleagues, clinicians, oncologists, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development experience using languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
- At least 5 years of experience with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and backend frameworks such as ASP.NET Core and Spring MVC.
- At least 3 years of experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- At least 3 years of Linux system administration experience.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, system architecture, data modeling, secure API design, and networking fundamentals.
- Business-level English proficiency and native or advanced business-level Japanese proficiency.
- Professional communication skills for leading technical discussions and working with physicians, hospital executives, and vendors.
- Willingness to travel to hospital partner premises for server operations when needed.
- Experience developing or operating EHR or department systems is preferred.
- Experience managing server hardware is preferred.
- AWS development experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time, fixed-term 12-month contract.
- Tokyo, Japan office location.
- Eligible for a flex-time system with normal hours of 9:00–18:00.
- Six-month probationary period.
- Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays off.
- Health, pension, employment, and workers' accident social insurance.
- No smoking in the office; a smoking area is available in the building.
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About Flatiron Health
Flatiron Health builds oncology-specific software and real-world evidence datasets used by cancer care providers and biopharma researchers. Its products include the OncoEMR electronic health record for community practices and curated, de-identified clinical datasets and analytics services sold via subscriptions and partnerships to support research and regulatory use. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company operates as an independent subsidiary of Roche.