THE ROLE

As a Backend Engineer at BI X, you will build the backbone of full scale applications related to either human or animal health. Each initiative that you support lasts for approximately 6 to 12 months, progressing from the initial idea to the final product. In those initiatives, you will work collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning, web-based and mobile applications that meet business goals. As a Backend Engineer, you will closely work together with Data Scientists and Frontend Engineers, but also with UX Designers on your team.

DESIRED SKILLS & MINDSET

You have a passion for software development and have either contributed to open source projects, participated in a technical community or interest group, or have written or spoken in public about your technical ideas.

Although experienced, you are still an active learner: You tinker with new open source libraries, use unfamiliar technologies without supervision and learn new programming languages in your granted spare time. At the same time, you inspire your peers and more junior team members to learn and expand their skill set.

Key Agile engineering practices such as CI/CD, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, Microservices, RESTful design and incremental design are second nature to you. You also use them to guide senior client IT leaders on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices.

PREREQUISITES

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or comparable experience
• First-hand experience of the intense collaboration in an agile software development team
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Extensive application development knowledge of at least one of the following technologies: NodeJS, Spark, PostgreSQL, nuoDB, Apache Geode, spring
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Java, Scala, Erlang, MongoDB, Docker, *MQ, Apache Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, Datomic, Neo4J, Python, .Net, JavaScript, CSS, SASS is a plus
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, functional programming

NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• You combine creative and analytical skills to develop innovative solutions and find efficient answers to tough challenges.
• Complex problem solving energizes you and you enjoy challenging the team for more innovative solutions and communicating this effectively.
• You love to keep the customer in mind when writing code as a constant compass for your quality mindset.

OUR OFFER

Our office culture is casual, inclusive, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will work on challenging projects in an innovative state-of-the-art technological environment in small teams of highly motivated colleagues who join us from a variety of backgrounds. We work at a fast pace, yet have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn. We will offer you exciting career prospects within a start-up-like environment, yet aligned to the Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the most influential pharmaceutical research companies in the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We take pride in creating a global, diverse and inclusive culture and believe in equal opportunities. We believe this benefits our employees, patients and communities and as such actively embrace diversity of perspectives, talent and experience within our teams.

Full remuneration package to be discussed with candidates.

THE ROLE

As a Data Scientist/Data Engineer at BI X, you will work with data and build applications related to human and animal health. You will work closely together with Backend and Frontend Engineers, but also with UX Designers on your team. In each initiative you will work collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning and scalable applications that meet business goals within a few months.

DESIRED SKILLS & MINDSET

You have a passion for data science and software development is not a threat but a thrill to you? As Data Scientist / Data Engineer at BI X, you use your knowledge to create real impact on possibly millions of lives working on projects that range from understanding medical side effects to predictive analytics in clinical operations.

Although experienced, you are still an active learner: You stay up to date with the latest machine learning techniques and use unfamiliar technologies without supervision. At the same time, you inspire your peers and more junior team members to learn and expand their skill set.

PREREQUISITES

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in data science/data engineering
• First-hand experience of the intense collaboration in an agile software development team
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Advanced hands-on experience in designing efficient and robust ETL workflows, query performance tuning as well as developing task specific data models
• Advanced experience in implementing and deploying machine learning solutions
• Experience in setting-up, administrating and querying SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Neo4j, CouchDB, etc.)
• Professional development experience with programming languages in any of Java, Python, Scala
• Experience with the Hadoop stack (MapReduce, Spark, Hive, HBase, etc.)
• Proficiency in advanced analytical tasks
• Sound knowledge in scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Bash

NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• You combine creative and analytical skills to develop innovative solutions and find efficient answers to tough challenges
• Complex problem solving energizes you and you enjoy challenging the team for more innovative solutions
• You communicate technical topics clearly and effectively
• You love to keep the customer in mind when writing code as a constant compass for your quality mindset
• To initiate and drive activities with minimal guidance is second nature to you

OUR OFFER

Our office culture is casual, inclusive, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will work on challenging projects in an innovative state-of-the-art technological environment in small teams of highly motivated colleagues who join us from a variety of backgrounds. We work at a fast pace, yet have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn. We will offer you exciting career prospects within a start-up-like environment, yet aligned to Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the most influential pharmaceutical research companies in the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We take pride in creating a global, diverse and inclusive culture and believe in equal opportunities. We believe this benefits our employees, patients and communities and as such actively embrace diversity of perspectives, talent and experience within our teams.

Full remuneration package to be discussed with candidates.

THE ROLE

As a Front End Engineer at BI X, you create both rapid prototypes as well as full-scale applications related to either human or animal health. Each initiative that you support lasts for approximately 6 to 12 months, progressing from the initial idea to the final product. You will work collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning, web-based and mobile applications that meet business goals. As a Front End Engineer, you will also contribute to the architecture across the technology stack, from database to native apps.

DESIRED SKILLS & MINDSET

You combine a concern for making the world a healthier place with both a self-starter mindset, a desire to work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial spirit and inspirational technical excellence mentorship (whilst adhering to Agile software engineering practices such as DRY, TDD, CI).

You are a talented and ambitious Front End Engineer who inspires and delivers change, who thrives on innovation, learning and problem solving.

PREREQUISITES

• First-hand experience of the intense collaboration in an agile software development team
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• First-hand understanding of Agile development methodologies
• Proficient professional experience with JavaScript MVC frameworks (e.g., Angular JS)
• Proficient professional experience in HTML5/CSS and building mobile, responsive/adaptive applications (e.g., Python)
• Significant experience writing and utilizing RESTful API services and performance tuning large scale applications
• Experience with relational data stores. Experience with non-relational data stores (e.g., MongoDB) is a plus
• Experience in development in any of the following technologies and opinions on how to use them properly: C#, Java, Scala, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Erlang, etc is a plus

NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• You combine creative and analytical skills to develop innovative solutions and find efficient answers to tough challenges
• Complex problem solving energizes you and you enjoy challenging the team for more innovative solutions and communicating this effectively
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging and disruptive technologies and driving change
• Playing an active role in the digital community is fun to you, i.e. speaking at conferences, blogging, contributing to open source projects, etc.

OUR OFFER

Our office culture is casual, inclusive, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will work on challenging projects in an innovative state-of-the-art technological environment in small teams of highly motivated colleagues who join us from a variety of backgrounds. We work at a fast pace, yet have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn. We will offer you exciting career prospects within a start-up-like environment, yet aligned to the Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the most influential pharmaceutical research companies in the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We take pride in creating a global, diverse and inclusive culture and believe in equal opportunities. We believe this benefits our employees, patients and communities and as such actively embrace diversity of perspectives, talent and experience within our teams.

Full remuneration package to be discussed with candidates.

THE ROLE

As a Scrum Master at BI X, you work on challenging, business-driven initiatives. These initiatives can range from advanced analytics to rapid process reinventions when enabling distributed clinical trials. To create and deliver both vision and tangible outcomes, you coordinate the interaction between product owner, development team, users and other stakeholders. At the same time, you create the environment in which a team can work in an agile, self-organized way to execute on this vision.

DESIRED SKILLS & MINDSET

We are looking for a people person that is fluent in the product, process, and technology aspects of the agile approach. You are ideally a practitioner in all aspects of Scrum, including, e.g., teaching planning poker, running daily stand-ups, preparing and supporting sprint reviews and facilitating retrospectives.

You should also be proficient in all aspects of the deliverables required for a technology team to build beautiful software or powerful analytics. Lastly, you would also have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices (e.g. automated smoke testing within a delivery pipeline) to enable your team's continuous improvement journey.

Despite (or due to!) multiple years of experience leading agile teams, you are an active learner and are excited about driving change and continuous improvements using agile.

PREREQUISITES

• Minimum of 2-3 years' experience leading agile development teams as Scrum Master
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Experience as both a team member and Scrum Master
• Experience with building high quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test-driven development, continuous integration)
• Coaching of the Product Owner towards relentless prioritization and alignment with business and other stakeholders to ensure highest value capture
• Excellent observer that can identify risks and make them visible and particularly enable the team to see them on their own
• Experience with running and teaching agile in a workshop or classroom setting is a plus
• Knowledge of Confluence and JIRA is a plus

NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• You can demonstrate intuitive servant leadership skills and you enjoy teaching and mentoring others
• Pushing innovation in our initiatives and at the same time being the"guardian of quality" energizes you
• You can meet senior business leaders on eye level based on excellent communication skills, coaching them regarding the agile way of working and translating strategic discussions into on the ground coaching with teams

OUR OFFER

Our office culture is casual, inclusive, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment, and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

We will offer you exciting career prospects within a start-up-like environment, yet aligned to Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the most influential pharmaceutical research companies in the world. You will work on challenging initiatives in an innovative state-of-the-art technological environment in small teams of highly motivated colleagues who join us from a variety of backgrounds.

Full remuneration package to be discussed with candidates.

THE ROLE

As a User Experience Designer at BI X, your primary responsibility will be to drive user experience architecture and design from end-to-end, including research, wireframes, prototypes, and usability testing. You will also be co-responsible with the other members of the development team for fully functional code supporting compelling interactive experiences.

DESIRED SKILLS & MINDSET

You should be an entrepreneurial self-starter who is also a team player with a professional presence and strong web / mobile design and UX / UI experience. You have the ability to get things done, collaborate effectively and are a good learner as well as a competent guide. You also inspire your peers and more junior team members to learn and expand their skill set.

It will be viewed as a plus if you also have interest in data visualization and can create impactful designs.

PREREQUISITES

• First-hand experience of the intense collaboration in an agile software development team
• English working proficiency and communication skills (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Experience in designing consumer-quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Graphic and visual design skills, including use of relevant software or tools for graphic design
• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing
• Rapid prototyping including a quick development process and a tight feedback loop with developers

NON-TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• You combine creative and analytical skills to develop innovative solutions and find efficient answers to tough challenges.
• Complex problem solving energizes you and you enjoy challenging the team for more innovative solutions and communicating this effectively.
• You love to keep the customer in mind when designing solutions as a constant compass for your quality mindset.

OUR OFFER

Our office culture is casual, inclusive, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will work on challenging projects in an innovative state-of-the-art technological environment in small teams of highly motivated colleagues who join us from a variety of backgrounds. We work at a fast pace, yet have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn. We will offer you exciting career prospects within a start-up-like environment, yet aligned to the Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the most influential pharmaceutical research companies in the world.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We take pride in creating a global, diverse and inclusive culture and believe in equal opportunities. We believe this benefits our employees, patients and communities and as such actively embrace diversity of perspectives, talent and experience within our teams.

Full remuneration package to be discussed with candidates.