Staff Applied AI Software Engineer (Python) - Patient (x/f/m)
About this role
Your Impact
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Patient domain.
Your mission will be to transform the Doctolib app into a full health companion powered by AI, helping patients manage their health with accuracy, empathy, and safety. You will work in a feature team developing an AI-powered chat built to answer patients' questions about their or their loved ones' health.
Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.
What you'll build
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Design, ship, and operate production-grade agentic systems that answer key health challenges for patients
Partner with data scientists to design and implement evaluation pipelines, security/safety guardrails, and metrics
Validate hypotheses quickly with offline evaluation datasets and A/B tests on real traffic
Develop and maintain core agentic capabilities including memory, reasoning orchestration, and tool adapters, ensuring strong observability, fallback mechanisms, and fail-safe behaviors
Own performance, observability and security: monitoring dashboards, SLO/SLI, and security posture
Ensure privacy and security by design
Contribute to cross-functional initiatives that shape Doctolib's future AI platform and best practices in building agentic systems
Requirements
- 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'll be a great fit if you:
- Have 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, with at least one significant experience using Python
- Have gone through the full lifecycle of an AI product at scale, from initial evaluation and launch to iterations based on results in production
- Understand and promote best practices related to the software development life cycle such as automated testing, good use of CI/CD, and devops practices
- Are product-oriented and comfortable guiding your teammates to suggest tradeoffs to balance business needs with technical constraints
- Are comfortable speaking and writing in English in your day-to-day work with the team
- It would be fantastic if you:
- Have the ability to adapt to the most efficient technologies to solve issues
- Have experience with agentic systems in production
- Have experience in the medical domain
- Life at Doctolib Tech
- Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
- 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.
- Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.