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Overview:
The Core Diabetes Model is a disease-simulation model used to inform health policy decisions and conduct economic evaluations for interventions aimed at controlling diseases by delaying the occurrence of their complications.
You will support the development team in refactoring and optimizing the existing C++ codebases with outlook to their extension to new therapeutic areas.
The ideal candidate will possess a junior/middle C++ technical background with passion for writing clean, efficient code as well as a genuine interest in developing code for the healthcare sector.
If you are interested in disease and health-care related processes simulation modelling and wish to apply your technical skills to help inform healthcare decision making, this is the role for you.
Job Activities:
- Work with the team in reviewing and refactoring legacy codebases.
- Work with the team to extend the current models with new features, diseases and comorbidities.
- Implement best practices in software design and development.
- Ensure code quality through rigorous testing and code reviews.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes.
- Co-writing code documentation and technical reports (Word, PPT, Excel), inside and outside the team
Qualifications
- BSc degree in Medical/Biomedical sciences/Engineering, or Mathematics
- Demonstrable interest in population health science, public health, epidemiology
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in C++ development, with proficiency in C++17 or later versions.
- Solid understanding and practical application of design patterns.
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g., Google Test).
- Experience with SQL databases and writing efficient queries.
- Proven experience working with large scientific codebases (200,000 - 300,000 lines of code or more).
- Hands-on experience with Visual Studio 2017 or newer, toolkit v141 or newer.
- Proficiency in software version control systems, particularly Git.
- Strong background in object-oriented programming (OOP).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Understanding of disease modelling, healthcare analytics and/or medical statistics
- Strong oral/written English communication skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
- Nice to have Experience as a Frontend Developer with a focus on UI/UX and GUI development, contributing to the creation of user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
- Knowledge of modern software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming).
- Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Familiarity with performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with cross-platform development.
- Experience with debugging and profiling tools.
What we offer
- Working in an international team for top-tier customers
- Have a pivotal role in the development of the most used and validated health-care decision model to date (over 120 Medline listed publications), preferred and used by health-technology assessment bodies around the World.
- Opportunity to learn and apply your skills in other therapeutic areas of health-economic modelling such as, modelling of infectious diseases, building discrete event simulations to optimize healthcare resource allocation and processes.
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