Senior Software Developer

The life sciences industry plays a significant role in advancing healthcare and improving the quality of life - in many cases, saving millions of lives globally. At BASE life science, this is the motivation for everything we do, aimed at pushing boundaries, seeking excellence, and making a lasting difference through consulting expertise and data-driven solutions.

Who is BASE life science?

Founded in 2007, BASE life science is a business and technology consulting enterprise working exclusively in the life sciences industry.

From our headquarters in Denmark and offices in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, we serve customers across the globe. With a deep understanding of the life sciences industry, we work hand in hand with customers to identify, develop, and implement strategic initiatives that drive growth, efficiency, and overall success through tailored solutions.

Our partnership with industry-leading solution providers, including Veeva, Salesforce, IQVIA, Benchling, and MediSpend ensures that our clients harness the full potential of the most innovative solutions on the market.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Software Engineering team, that participates with expertise in various areas of our technical consultancy business, including the maintenance of existing software solutions, working on client projects with custom solutions, building functional proof-of-concepts to support our sales as well as helping with establishing best practises in software development in all of BASE.

We are currently focused on developing Python products related to data migrations and LLM-powered applications, with the expectation that our product portfolio will continue to expand over time. Being in a regulated industry like life science there is a high focus on product quality and solidity and for that reason we also work with best practises within testing, static code analysis and other mostly automated practises that can help us ensure the right standards of our software, while still being able to produce new functionality to our portfolio.

As a Senior Software Developer your responsibilities include:

• Design and implement new features for software libraries.
• Develop core modules and components in software projects.
• Develop and maintain tests (unit, integrations, system, etc.).
• Support bug-fixing activities.
• Evaluate, review, and refactor code produced by other colleagues.

We offer this position in Copenhagen, Denmark.

What makes you the best person for this job?

For this role, it is important that you are interested in software development and know how to not only get things done but also get things right. You should have an ambition to learn and improve both your professional and technical skills, and you should be able to interact and work with your colleagues remotely as the team and our users and stakeholders are split out between offices in Denmark and Spain.

On top of this, you have the following experience:

• Experience developing software using both a statically typed language and Python.
• Experience in developing and maintaining a software repository.
• Experience in testing, debugging and troubleshooting code.
• Knowledge of version control using Git.
• Knowledge and experience in software delivery models, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Agile working practices.
• Experience in building software in a serverless and/or cloud environment.

Additionally, the
ideal
candidate has the following qualifications (however not a requirement):

• Fluent in writing Python code.
• Experience with writing Java code.
• Experience in developing software libraries.
• Experience with working in regulated environment (GxP).
• Experience with building and delivering Python packages.
• Experience with tabular data manipulation (ETL pipelines).
• Understanding of the underlying LLM technology stack and/or experience in developing LLM-powered applications.

What makes us the best employer for you?

BASE life science has been recognized as an outstanding workplace, earning us the Great Place To Work certification in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, United States and the United Kingdom.

We are proud to represent 35+ nationalities among our colleagues, and firmly believe in the power of diverse perspectives and characteristics to drive truly innovative solutions and achieving excellence.

At the heart of our organization lies a foundation grounded in five core values: team spirit, trust, openness, ambition, and execution. We cultivate an environment that champions flexibility, placing confidence in our employees to successfully complete tasks while upholding a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, we place significance in cross-functional collaboration, where niche skills and specialisms are valued and challenging the status quo is encouraged.

Additionally, we offer you:

• Health insurance.
• Remote work friendliness.
• Ongoing learning and development.
• Flexible schedules to fit your work to your routine.
• Contributions to physical, social, and emotional health.
• Home office setup with laptop and other electronic devices.
• The chance to help make a difference for patients around the world.

Interested?

If you find this position intriguing, don't delay—
submit your application in English
at your earliest convenience. We are continuously reviewing and assessing all incoming candidates and eagerly await your application.

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