About us
At Mika, we’re on a mission to revolutionize healthcare through technology. Half of us may develop cancer in our lifetime, and our mental and physical health are crucial in our fight against disease. We develop innovative solutions aimed at lowering oncology-specific distress, such as depression, anxiety, and fatigue. Our partnership with the Life Science industry enables us to empower individuals within therapy-specific programs to manage their health effectively, making healthcare more accessible, personalized, and efficient.Our vision?
Simple: Help people survive cancer.If you feel passionate about that: join us, we need your contribution to this mission!
What you will be doing
About the job
- As a Cloud Engineer you ensure the seamless operation of our services and production systems.
- Our team comprises years of experience in recommendation algorithms (BCCN Berlin) and Bioinformatics (HU-Berlin).
- We are taking a science-first approach to build a platform on which we can run clinical trials (A/B testing) matching patients – based on their behavioral profiles – to medically supportive content.
What you’ll do
- Maintain and develop resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS
- Collaborate across teams within the Tech department to find the best solutions to infrastructure problems
- Reduce operational toil through automation and observability tooling
- Share domain knowledge through documentation, demos, technical presentations, and incident reviews
- Optimize data processing tools and reduce execution times of ETL pipelines
- Transition Infrastructure as Code (IaC) repositories from Terraform to Pulumi
About the tech
Our infrastructure is deployed on AWS and managed via IaC tools Terraform and Pulumi, written in python. It includes a Django API for native apps, a CMS that we use to manage app content, various ETL pipelines feeding into an Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse, and numerous data processing tools that perform data analysis on pseudonymized data. We use a modern tech stack that leverages a number of Amazon services (e.g. Kinesis, Elasticache, ECS, SFN, Lambda, SNS, Redshift, RDS, Glue, DMS) alongside other technologies like Dagster, Metaflow, Airbyte, Elasticsearch, and Celery.
This is an excellent opportunity to work on the intersection of cloud and data engineering.
What we would like you to bring with
Our ideal candidate
- Proficient in Python or similar scripting languages, and willing to master python
- Experience with distributed cloud infrastructure management (AWS preferred), using IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi
- Knowledgeable in ETL processes and data warehouse management
- Have a solid understanding of RESTful systems
- Highly proactive and reliable, with a product quality mindset
- Has perfect written and verbal English communication skills, German is a plus
- Based in Berlin or willing to relocate
Please note
If you are a great Python developer with a problem-solving mentality, don’t worry about the buzzwords. Talk to us! Please send us your CV reflecting the above mentioned requirements.
If applicable, add your Stackoverflow, Github, or other relevant account names.
We are looking forward to getting to know you!
Benefits
- Flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Choose your company laptop: Linux or Apple
- Work-life balance with flexible working hours
- Budget for educational resources, including cloud certifications, courses, and meetups
- Well-connected office in Berlin Wedding, stocked up with snacks
- Freedom of working from home combined with periodic visits to our Berlin office
Why us?
- Meaningful: 50% of people will develop cancer in the course of their lives. At Mika, you can actively contribute to helping defeat it. We are building the world’s first digitally delivered oncology treatment.
- Responsibility: Moving mountains and dreaming up ideas on how to solve the impossible. Comfortable being uncomfortable; we are solving one of healthcare’s hardest challenges.
- Mika Team: We are a mix of scientists, technologists, communicators, and deal-makers. Some of us are caregivers or survivors who have lived through the nightmare that is cancer. We are highly motivated and stubborn in our resolve to defeat it. We come from all corners of the earth and learn from each other in our own internal melting pot in so many ways each and every day. We are all different, but we share the same mission!
- Great Office & Events: We love our stylish loft office in Berlin providing plenty of space for agile work culture and social gatherings.
- Impact & Development: As a relatively small team that is steadily growing you will have an impact from the first second and plenty of chance to develop further in your career.
- Benefits & Perks: we do our best to give our employees the best to feel rewarded and appreciated. On top of mental health support, office snacks, and events, we constantly update our list of benefits to meet the wishes of most.