Experienced Scientific Software Engineer

Basel Area - Allschwil, BL, CH

About Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Idorsia Ltd is reaching out for more - We have more ideas, we see more opportunities and we want to help more patients.

In order to achieve this, we will develop Idorsia into one of Europe’s leading biopharmaceutical company, with a strong scientific core.

Headquartered in Switzerland - a European biotech hub - Idorsia is specialized in the discovery and development of small molecules, to transform the horizon of therapeutic options. Idorsia has a broad portfolio of innovative drugs in the pipeline, an experienced team, a fully-functional research center, and a strong balance sheet – the ideal constellation to bringing R&D efforts to business success.

Idorsia was listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker symbol: IDIA) in June 2017 and has over 600 highly qualified specialists dedicated to realizing our ambitious targets.

Working at Idorsia Pharmaceuticals means working in one of the most agile drug discovery companies in Europe. Idorsia is the company where your contribution will make the difference. This position gives you the opportunity to become part of a software development team that creates and maintains tailored software solutions for the daily changing needs of pharmaceutical research. Your customers will be using your software in-house. These scientists work in laboratories on new drugs to fight serious and live threatening diseases supported by your software. Their research break-throughs will also be your success when the company brings a new drug to the market that changes the lives of thousands of patients. Drug discovery nowadays creates huge amounts of data, which must be safely stored, automatically processed, evaluated, visualized, and understood. This needs intelligent software, to which you will contribute. If you are excited rather than frightened by cheminformatics, multi-threaded and distributed computing, SQL and NoSQL databases, and if you enjoy collaborating with top scientists, then don’t hesitate any longer and send us your application.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop professional and intelligent scientific software in Java


• Use and contribute to a rich framework of cheminformatics classes and GUI components


• Gather requirements from drug designers and turn them into creative and innovative solutions

Candidate's Requirement

• Master of Computer Science, Master of Chemistry or equivalent


• Expert in Java (OOP, design patterns, algorithms and data structures)


• Substantial experience in Java client development (Swing, JavaFX)


• A more than basic understanding of chemistry, molecules and reactions


• Good working knowledge in relational databases (Oracle, SQL, JDBC)


• Broad technology background (C, C++, Git, HTML5, REST, JSON, LDAP, Linux, Windows, OSX, etc)


• Being fluent in English (German is a plus)


• Self-motivated learner, cross-platform thinking, good team-player

What Idorsia offers

• Exciting opportunities  for development and professional growth within our dynamic organization


• A collaborative and solution oriented enviroment where you can make a difference


• An innovative and open culture in a truly multicultural environment


• A competitive salary and generous social benefits

Work  Location: Allschwil

Country: Switzerland

Business Area: Research & Development

Schedule: Fulltime

Job Type: Permanent

Job ID: 990

If you are interested, please click on apply now.

Please be informed that if you are selected for this position, your employment will be subject to a pre-employment background screening process, of which you would be informed in greater detail in due course.

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