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Senior Software Engineer @ Ontoforce
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The purpose of the Senior Software Engineer role at Ontoforce is to drive the optimization and scalability of the DISQOVER platform, a critical tool for empowering life sciences organizations to extract actionable insights from vast and complex datasets. As Ontoforce continues to push the boundaries of data integration and knowledge discovery, the Senior Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in re-architecting the product to handle large-scale, high-performance data processing.
In this role, the engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that DISQOVER can seamlessly process and manage knowledge graphs that may scale up to 100TB of data, enabling users to efficiently extract valuable information in real time. The focus is not just on technical execution, but also on designing solutions that make complex data analytics user-friendly and scalable. This position requires a proactive, solution-driven approach, as well as a product mindset, to ensure the platform meets the evolving needs of research-intensive customers in the life sciences industry.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Architecting for Scale: Design and build the architecture of the DISQOVER platform to handle knowledge graphs exceeding 50TB of data, ensuring it remains performant and scalable.
- Real-Time Data Updates: Implement robust systems to process and update incoming data changes with minimal latency, ensuring users always have access to the latest data in near-real-time.
- Technology Stack Optimization: Work with and extend the current technology stack, including Python, AWS, SOLR, Redis, while identifying potential scalability issues. Propose enhancements or alternative solutions to overcome these challenges.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams such as data scientists, frontend developers, and product managers to ensure that technical solutions align with business goals and meet user needs.
- Leveraging Modern Tools: Work with a cutting-edge stack that includes Python, AWS, Azure, Redis, Solr. You will be at the forefront of solving intricate problems and ensuring high-performance functionality for APIs and user interfaces, directly impacting user experience.
- Full Development Lifecycle: Be involved in every stage of the development process, from the initial concept and design to final implementation and testing. You will take full ownership of developing new features, ensuring they are effective, performant, and user-friendly.
- Driving Innovation: Play a pivotal role in introducing new technologies, methodologies, and processes that improve the platform. You’ll be encouraged to think creatively and challenge the status quo to keep Ontoforce at the leading edge of the industry.
Profile
- Strong experience with Python preferred,
- Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (preferably Azure / AWS),
- Familiarity with data processing, ideally in the life sciences or pharmaceutical industries, would be highly beneficial;
- Experience working in a product-focused company, with a mindset geared towards delivering value to customers over the long term.
Competences
- Proven ability to optimize and scale up existing systems, particularly in contexts where an established product needs to be enhanced for greater efficiency;
- Hands-on approach with a willingness to dive deep into code and architecture to ensure the best possible outcomes. Ontoforce is looking for someone who can work independently, take the lead on projects, and proactively identify and solve problems.
Languages
This role is suitable for both Dutch-speaking and English-speaking profiles
Offer
- Contribute to a socially impactful mission, helping accelerate life sciences research and drug development;
- Cutting-edge data integration solutions;
- Work in a dynamic scale-up environment with the resources and influence to collaborate with major clients and industry leaders on a highly innovative product;
- An impressive team of experienced and motivated colleagues;
- Join an organization with a well-defined strategic roadmap, providing clarity and focus on the company’s growth and technological direction;
- ONTOFORCE believes in fostering an entrepreneurial environment where everyone feels empowered to take initiative and make a difference, no matter how high the stakes;
- Be part of a youthful, energetic, and innovative company culture that fosters creativity and collaboration.
Amon is Ontoforce's exclusive recruitment partner for this vacancy. Interested? Contact Louise De Potter (ldp@amon.be)
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Senior Software Engineer @ Ontoforce
For more than a decade, ONTOFORCE (HQ Gent) has addressed the problem many life sciences companies struggle with when bringing together structured and unstructured data to create new insights. These insights lead to accelerated drug discovery, more in-depth insights into research, optimized clinical trial research, and a faster go-to-market.
ONTOFORCE works with lighthouse customers such as Amgen, UCB, BMS, Roche, along with other life sciences players. Collaboration with renowned research institutes such as IMEC, VIB, UGent, KULeuven, and international research and industrial consortia such as ELIXIR, FAIRplus, and Pistoia Alliance, guarantees that these are engaging with a global player that has made transforming data into insights its primary objective.
The company was founded in 2011, when the founder of the company, Hans Constandt, was frustrated not being able to find the right information to help his sick child even though he worked as a data scientist and ‘so-called expert’ in a pharma multinational. In his spare time, he started to build the first DISQOVER application to ease access to all relevant open data to find the latest and best information about his kid’s condition. His home-grown project got quite some market traction and this has broadened the scope of just helping his kid, opening up to a much broader community, and adding and linking many more data sources. ONTOFORCE was born and together with a small dedicated start-up team, DISQOVER started to truly scale.
Today, the company employs 50 people and serves over 10.000 users. In addition to its headquarters in Ghent, ONTOFORCE also has a branch office in Boston, Massachusetts (US).
ONTOFORCE’S DISQOVER is a powerful and intuitive knowledge discovery platform designed for organizations in life sciences and healthcare. Every day, doctors, scientists and institutions across the globe generate valuable pieces of information relevant to pathologies, genes, treatments, clinical trials, etc. Much of that data remains hidden or disconnected and spread across silos, databases and formats – making research time consuming and resource-intensive. Companies often don’t understand where data lives. This is where DISQOVER comes into play. ONTOFORCE's DISQOVER has earned industry acclaim and awards, such as Gartner recognition, Deloitte's Fast 50 and Best of Bio-IT World.
The reason why companies choose ONTOFORCE is twofold:
- The patented platform outperforms competitors in terms of speed, scalability and stability. The platform can handle enormous amounts of data fast and without a big memory footprint;
- Customers praise the award-winning user interface, making it easy for non-tech savvy users to build complex queries across a multitude of data silos in a very intuitive way.