Senior Software Engineer - Berlin(x/f/m)

Join our mission, join Doctolib!

What you'll do 

Join our new team dedicated to user rights and permission management. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the gold standard for access control on Doctolib's platform. Help protect sensitive user and financial data while enabling seamless workflows for healthcare professionals.

As a Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Building Advanced Authorization Systems: Design and implement scalable authorization frameworks, including role-based and API-driven controls that support both clinical and financial features
• Modernizing Legacy Systems: Simplifying and cleaning up legacy access models (e.g., EHR authorizations), ensuring data protection and privacy compliance
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with product, legal, and data protection teams to deliver privacy-compliant solutions
• API Development: Building and maintaining robust APIs for permissions and authorization that enable broader platform integration
• Implementing access control for emerging roles like Medical Front Assistant and new Clinical & Financial admin roles

About our tech environment

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components. 
• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift and React Native.
• We leverage AI in an ethical manner across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!

Who you are 

Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

• Senior-Level Experience: 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience
• API Development: Proven experience building and maintaining APIs for permissions/authorization systems
• Regulated Environments: Experience in access control, security, or authorization systems—ideally in healthcare, fintech, or other highly regulated domains
• Full-stack Mindset: Curiosity and willingness to work across both frontend and backend
• AI Tooling usage: Knowledge of AI tools and modern development practices

Technical Stack

• Proficiency in backend (Ruby) or frontend development (React), preferably in environments similar to Doctolib's tech stack
• Scalable Design: Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable frameworks for complex user rights and permissions management

What we offer

• Company health insurance through our partner Allianz
• Minimum 28 days of paid leave
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Reimbursement of public transportation

The interview process 

• Recruiter Interview 
• Feature Building 
• System Design interview 
• Behavioral interview 
• At least one reference check

Job details

• Permanent Position 
• Full time 
• Location: Berlin - Charlottenburg 
• Working Mode: Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
• Start Date : As soon as possible

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! 

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you! 

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