Job Description

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people's varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.


The Position Who We Are

Roche Information Solutions (RIS) provides integrated digital solutions to deliver on the promise of affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare. RIS is accountable for the development and delivery of digital solutions, common Diagnostics architecture and data management. Digitalization in healthcare is of increasing importance to deliver customer and patient value, and shape healthcare.

Digital Development Services (DDS) is part of RIS division of Roche, which provides digital product for various diagnostic workflow and services. We are part of RIS and work on digitization of pathology workflow in pathology lab operation to improve accuracy, efficiency and turnaround time for pathologist. We provide on premise and cloud deployed end-to-end digital workflow solutions to pathology labs across the globe.







The Opportunity

The Senior Software Engineer is a member of a team of 10+ engineers and will apply his/her expert knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate and AWS in the implementation of complex, enterprise-scale software systems. General responsibilities include requirement analysis, lower level design, implementation, unit testing for components or features and integration with external partner APIs.

Works as individual contributor or in a small team on specific product features with occasional guidance and in coordination with other team mates. Participate in peer code review session and enforce quality of deliverables.

Job Facts

• Software Development: This is a hands-on software development position to write high-quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.
• Process & Operations: Ensure the software deliverables follow existing process guidelines and conform to all existing quality parameters. Follow scaled agile framework guideline for incremental development.
• Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior team members in technical challenges and provide guidance on best practices and quality attributes.
• Technology stack: Most of the backend stack is in Java based (Spring Boot) micro services but we constantly explore different technologies and toolsets that are fit-for-purpose.
• Here is a list of technologies we currently use:


Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring, Hibernate/JPA

Unit testing using Junit and Mockito.

Protobuf, JSON, XML, YAML


Git, TortoiseGit

AWS (must be aware about basics of EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Elastic Cache, Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, S3, Glacier, RDS, NLB/ALB, Security Groups/NACLs/VPCs, Cloud Watch)

Docker & Kubernetes (Good to have)

Experience In REST API integration

Your main responsibilities will include :

• Design and implement product modules/features in Java and related frameworks.
• Write clean, well designed, testable, efficient and maintainable code.
• Develop new set of APIs and write unit test cases for same.
• Integrate product with external partner APIs.
• Write reusable code and libraries
• Enhance application for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholder
• Review code written by fellow junior developers.
• Involve in agile ceremonies like stand-up, sprint planning, and demos with co-workers

Who You Are

• BS/Btech/MS degree in Computer Science or directly related discipline
• 5-9+ years of hands-on industry experience as a java developer
• Believe in the achieving higher technical excellence and customer satisfaction everyday
• Experience and solid understanding of Core java, Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, Rest services & APIs.
• Experience in designing concurrent and multitenant services.
• Experience in cloud development prominently using AWS.
• Solid understanding of design patterns, object-oriented design.
• Hands-on software development experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot
• Quick learner with the ability to understand complex workflows and develop and validate innovative solutions to solve difficult problems
• Experience in healthcare is not required, but familiarity with healthcare data and workflows is a plus (e.g. HL7, IHE)
• Knowledge and experience with the Agile development process or SAFe is big plus.


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Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.