Backend Engineer
Software Engineer
Berlin
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About Us
Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed.
Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity.
K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.
Position is based in our Paris office or remotely in France, UK, Germany.
Please submit your CV in English
About The Role
As a Software Engineer, you will build the world leading Agentic AI product for biomedical researchers by combining robust engineering practices with cutting-edge AI technologies. You'll be working on a real-time system that integrates LLMs, tool-calling, and interactive UI elements, making sure our users can seamlessly engage with complex domain specific data.
This role requires balancing traditional engineering principles with innovative approaches when integrating LLMs and AI throughout our technology stack. If you love building and refining a dynamic product, this role is for you.
Your seniority and experience will be crucial in guiding the multidisciplinary team to make strategic decisions and empowering team members.
This job offer covers for multiple positions at different levels of seniority (Intermediate & Senior).
In Particular, You Will
- Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team of product managers, designers, software engineers, machine learning and biomedical scientists.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable AI systems.
- Drive technical decisions and provide context-aware solutions for AI systems in biological research.
- Leverage and pioneer evaluation methodologies to ensure continuous product improvement.
- Experiment with cutting-edge industry solutions—orchestration patterns, fine-tuning, specialized monitoring, feedback loops, etc.
- Lead core stack component development focusing on sustainability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
- Foster team growth by sharing expertise and mentoring colleagues through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation.
Example Of Scope
- Lead Agent Development: Drive the development of Owkin agents and actively contribute to the core components of our platform, "K-Pro."
- Optimize Analytical Workflows to feed the agents with the data they need when they need it — e.g. analytical DBs (DuckDB), distributed computing (AWS Athena, Trino, etc), integration with data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc).
- Deployment and Integration: Manage the seamless integration and deployment of agents within Owkin's broader Data Platform infrastructure.
About You
Required qualifications / experience:
- You’re driven by impact — excited to empower biomedical researchers with intuitive, AI-driven tools that unlock scientific discovery.
- Strong collaborative skills with an open, pragmatic mindset; you thrive in multidisciplinary environments that involve people with diverse backgrounds.
- Clear and effective communicator who can translate technical complexity into actionable decisions for the team.
- Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure design, and building resilient distributed systems - including complex analytical workflows.
- Extensive experience with production environments: continuous deployment, high availability, observability, and security.
- Curiosity and ideally hands-on experience with AI systems — from integrating LLMs to evaluating their performance in real-world workflows.
- Passion for user experience and product thinking: you consider not only the system’s internals but how the end user interacts with and benefits from your work.
- Proficiency with Claude Code and other AI software engineering tools
- Fluent English, both written and spoken.
- Stack: Python, Kubernetes, AWS
Preferred Qualifications/bonus
- Experience working with spatial transcriptomics data.
- Knowledge of different technologies for distributed computing, databases, and serialization.
- Front-end development experience (although the position is mostly back-end oriented)
- Direct experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
What we offer
- Flexible work organization
- Friendly and informal working environment
- Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
- Please complete the form and submit your CV.
- Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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