A Little Bit About Us:

Saphetor’s mission is to enable anyone to find, share, and use the most comprehensive human genome data – and to collaborate to improve health and lives around the world.

To do this, we have built the VarSome suite of bioinformatic tools, the world’s leading resource for analysis and interpretation of human genome variant data, with more than 6000 citations in scientific papers and over 60000 registered professional users. Our customers work around the globe across academic, clinical, and industry laboratories, analysing NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) data for research and diagnostic purposes.

Saphetor is a Swiss precision medicine company with offices in Lausanne (CH), Boston (USA), and Athens (GR) employing a diverse global workforce.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for aPython Engineer to join our backend team. If you're driven by clean code, cross team collaboration and excited to work in the fast-moving world of genomics, this is a place where your work will matter.

We thrive in a high-pressure, high-performance environment where clinical precision and rapid growth meet. While our pace is fast, it is always directed by rigorous organization and clear processes, ensuring that our commitment to quality is never compromised by our drive for speed.

Role Responsibilities:

• Backend Excellence: Develop server-side logic that delivers high performance and responsive communication between front-end and back-end systems.
• Stack Ownership: Maintain and advance the Python web application stack, including VarSome Clinical, VarSome.com, and the VarSome API.
• Quality & Collaboration: Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality , architecture discussions, critical testing, performance optimization, and frontend coordination — owning custom client functionality end-to-end with full responsibility for the quality of your deliverables.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and domain experts to scope work, unblock dependencies, and deliver cohesive features.
• Operational Awareness: Participate in deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations as needed, taking shared responsibility

The Ideal Candidate (Profile)

The ideal candidate is a Python engineer with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs in Django and Django Rest Framework, backed by a solid grasp of software design principles, relational databases, and disciplined testing practices. You write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable engaging in code reviews and cross-functional work with other stakeholders.