Careers at Doctolib

About Doctolib

Doctolib Connect is a secure medical communication app designed for healthcare professionals.

More than 1M healthcare professionals use Doctolib Connect to discuss and coordinate patient care with colleagues both within and beyond their organizational walls. Today, Doctolib Connect is the largest medical network in Europe.

Since 2013, Doctolib has been striving for a healthier world by providing new-generation technology. With more than 2,800 employees across France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Doctolib improves the daily lives of healthcare professionals and serves more than 80 million Europeans, offering a fast, frictionless, and secure journey for all their care needs.

What you'll do

We are looking for a Backend Engineer II to join the Doctolib Connect team in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

As a Backend Engineer, your mission will be to work on secure medical communication solutions that enable healthcare professionals to discuss and coordinate patient care with colleagues both within and beyond their organizational walls. You will be working in a feature team developing APIs and backend services that power Europe's largest medical network with over 1M healthcare professionals.

Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Building, owning and maintaining Doctolib Connect's backend providing APIs for our mobile and web clients using Java 17, Spring Boot, Akka and more
• Managing and monitoring our cloud infrastructure at AWS, implementing "infrastructure-as-code" (Terraform) solutions
• Ensuring our users' data is safe and secure by keeping security and privacy front and center in everything you do
• Collaborating with peers working on Android, iOS, web and Doctolib's Rails backend to build an exceptional experience for healthcare professionals
• Managing the full development lifecycle, including stakeholder communication and production issue debugging

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 ethically 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.

• You have 3+ years experience with API design and development using Java 8+ (we're currently on Java 17)
• You have experience running software on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
• You have experience with frameworks and libraries like Spring Boot, Akka and Protobuf
• You have experience working with database technologies, preferably JPA, MySQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch/Opensearch
• You enjoy figuring out why things work, not just that they work
• You're fluent in English

What we offer

• Company pension scheme through our partner Allianz
• 27 days of annual leave per year (and the ability to accrue more days on your work anniversary!)
• Flexibility days allowing to work in EU countries and the UK (10 days per year)
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Free breakfast and lunch plan every day on-site
• Bike lease scheme with our partner Lease a Bike, 35% price below the market
• Discounted membership with Urban Sports Club
• Continuous training programs on all key competencies (English, soft skills, expertise)
• Reimbursement of public transportation if you live outside the Amsterdam highway ring
• Parent Care Program: Various initiatives supporting parenthood, including 100% paid parental leave up to 16 weeks for mothers and up to 5 weeks for the co-parent, flexible return and 3 days of leave per year for child sickness
• Relocation support for international mobilities

The interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• Feature Building Interview
• System Design Interview
• Behavioral Interview

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 are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. 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. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights.