Senior SW Engineer for Lab Connectivity

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Who We Are

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

The Opportunity

You will be joining one of the Agile organisations in charge of designing, implementing, delivering and maintaining Reusable solution to simplify interoperability between diagnostics solutions (Roche and non-Roche instrumentation, LIS, HIS, Edge Systems…) to simplify the development to reduce complexity, time to market, cost of ownership and quality of our internal customers within R&D Departments at Roche Diagnostics.

This position will play a critical role in the team, leveraging deep expertise in Connectivity protocols and solutions and supporting the design, development, deployment and validation of future connectivity solutions while maintaining the current base of deployments across Roche. As a Software Engineer, you will be also lead the ASDLC adoption and Ways of working in your team while preserving quality standards and good software practices. You are expected to show a good customer centric mindset.

For this you will prove experience in .NET Software Development, Instrument connectivity protocols and Interoperability in general. You can communicate effectively in English with people of different profiles, cultures and your mentoring skills shall contribute to continuous improvement and delivering excellent software efficiently.

You will be responsible

You care about your team, leading technical discussions and complex initiatives. You can influence decisions within your area of responsibility and connect naturally with business and architecture representatives to provide solutions to our customers. You are able to manage technology, business and reality to design future feasible and efficient solutions.

Who you are:

• Healthcare Interoperability & Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of healthcare and laboratory integration standards (e.g., HL7, POCT1-A, ASTM, LIS/HIS) and connectivity solutions for diagnostics environments.
• Software Development & Quality Practices: Proven hands-on C# .NET development background with strong expertise in software design patterns, object-oriented design, TDD/BDD, unit/integration testing, and maintainable code.
• End-to-End Ownership & AI Integration: Track record of full SDLC responsibility (from requirements to deployment), including integrating AI toolsets into development workflows and understanding cloud/frontend technologies.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, mentor developers, design robust components, and guide architecture/AI strategy alongside product managers and stakeholders.
• Education, Communication & Soft Skills: Degree in CS or related field (Bachelor's + 6 years or Master's + 4 years), with strong problem-solving skills, independence, and fluent communication in English and Spanish for agile, cross-functional collaboration.

Locations

You will be based in Sant Cugat, Spain.

Leadership Skills

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective leadership for your team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of the market and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.

Both Diagnostics and Diabetes Care Leadership teams use these skills when referring to leadership. Consider bringing them into the job description.

The Expert SW Engineer in Mobile is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are:

• Put patients first
• Follow the science
• Act as one team
• Embrace differences
• Accelerate learning
• Simplify radically
• Make impact now
• Think long term

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.