Staff Engineer - Berlin (x/f/m)

Join our mission, join Doctolib!

What you'll do
Join our new team dedicated to user rights and permission management. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in establishing 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 Staff Engineer, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design and implement scalable authorization frameworks, including role-based and API-driven controls that support both clinical and financial features
• Simplify and clean up legacy access models (e.g., EHR authorizations), ensuring data protection and privacy compliance
• Work closely with product, legal, and data protection teams to deliver privacy-compliant solutions
• Lead and coach complex technical implementations including architecture transformations and vision implementation with a team of Engineers

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

We’re on the lookout for a Staff Engineer who is proactive, curious, collaborative and who’s interested in cutting edge technologies and AI technologies. If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!

• You have at least 10+ years of software engineering experience
• You have strong technical Backend development skills, along with coaching and mentoring experience
• 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

What we offer

• Company health insurance through our partner Allianz
• Minimum 28 days of paid leave
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Reimbursement of public transportation

The interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• System Design Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• Engineering Manager Case
• At least one reference check

Job details

• Permanent Position
• Full-time
• Location: Berlin
• Working Mode: hybrid (3 days/week in office)
• Start Date: As soon as possible

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of!

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