Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Berlin (x/f/m)

About this role

Responsibilities

• Join our new team dedicated to user rights and permission management. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in leading the gold standard for access control on Doctolib's platform. Help protect sensitive user and financial data while enabling seamless workflows for healthcare professionals.
• As a Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Building Advanced Authorization Systems: Design and implement scalable authorization frameworks, including role-based and API-driven controls that support both clinical and financial features
• Modernizing Legacy Systems: Simplifying and cleaning up legacy access models (e.g., EHR authorizations), ensuring data protection and privacy compliance
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with product, legal, and data protection teams to deliver privacy-compliant solutions
• API Development: Building and maintaining robust APIs for permissions and authorization that enable broader platform integration
• Implementing access control for emerging roles like Medical Front Assistant and new Clinical & Financial admin roles
• 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 in an ethical manner 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.
• Senior-Level Experience: 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience within a cross collaborative environment
• API Development: Proven experience building and maintaining APIs for permissions/authorization systems
• Regulated Environments: Experience in access control, security, or authorization systems. ideally in healthcare, fintech, or other highly regulated domains
• Full-stack Mindset: Curiosity and willingness to work across both frontend and backend
• Independency in solving tech challenges: Ability to balance right solutions for the right tech problems.
• Technical Stack
• Scalable & event driven Design: Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable frameworks for complex user rights and permissions management. Experience in Kafka is optimal
• Proficiency in backend development, ideally in a tech stack similar to Doctolib’s