Software Engineer - Materials Management

As a Software Engineer – Materials Management, you will be based in our Cambridge office, working as part of an agile team of experienced and dedicated software engineers contributing to the Materials Management service. As a cloud-only SaaS solution that provides management and identification of material and substance definitions, this service forms a strategically important role and underpins a great many of the workflows and capabilities supported by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The Materials Management service is part of a growing suite of cloud-based scientific software solutions that the BIOVIA brand (Scientific Software: Accelerate Your Scientific Innovation | BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes) is developing, delivered by a talented group of software professionals located in Europe, United States and Asia. You’ll be joining the team at an exciting time as we transition from initial Go Live through Minimum Viable Product and ultimately to the best in class solution for our customers.

Role Description & Responsibilities

Architect Server-Side Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable backend services and APIs using Java and modern JavaScript ecosystems

Drive Product Evolution: Build out a broad set of new backend features enabling complex scientific workflows in entirely new business areas

Champion Continuous Delivery: Shape project roadmaps, ensuring deep test coverage and a highly maintainable, resilient codebase

Innovate & Modernise: Proactively research and introduce cutting-edge backend tools, design patterns, and engineering practices to the team

Optimize Cloud Architecture: Enhance data processing pipelines, concurrency models, and multi-tenant capabilities for public and private cloud deployments

Elevate Code Quality: Lead and participate in rigorous peer reviews, ensuring a clean, robust, and maintainable codebase

Qualifications

We are looking for a dedicated backend or server-side specialist. While we value full-stack adaptability, your core passion and expertise lie in building rock-solid server-side logic and scalable APIs. If you already have many of the following attributes and are excited to learn the rest, we would love to hear from you:

Education: Degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a related scientific/engineering discipline

Server-Side Expertise: Strong commercial experience developing backend applications using Java and/or JavaScript / TypeScript

API Design: Proven experience building secure, backward-compatible, and high-performance RESTful APIs for large-scale SaaS environments

Testing Excellence: Passionate about quality, with experience using automated backend testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Mocha/Jest)

Mindset: A strong sense of ownership, an agile mindset, and excellent English communication skills

Experience working with RDF databases / graph databases and querying with SPARQL

A passion or academic interest in materials science, chemistry, biology, or scientific informatics software

Experience or familiarity with client-side development (Angular 21+, RxJS) to support full-stack collaboration when needed

What’s in it for you

Global Culture: A vibrant, diverse, and deeply collaborative international work environment

True Balance: Flexible working hours paired with a modern hybrid working model

Growth & Mentorship: Extensive, structured career development programs to help you scale your skills

Total Rewards: A highly competitive salary and a comprehensive, premium benefits package

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