Company Description

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

The Team

Eurofins endeavors to develop all of our software applications in-house to service and support our numerous laboratories globally. With hundreds of thousands of clinical diagnostic tests performed every day, the laboratories of the Eurofins clinical diagnostic services business line strive to ensure that every patient, wherever he or she lives, has access to the most specialized and most innovative techniques for diagnosis, monitoring, and therapeutic decisions. Such activities require extensive planning and organisation which can be augmented using technology.

Our Clinical LIMS Europe Program will extensively be used as the central Laboratory Information Management Systemthroughout Europe, this role is crucial in defining and delivering the product roadmap.

In a nutshell

In the role, you will work with a dedicated, enthusiastic team developing and maintaining instrument drivers to support integration between laboratory instruments and the laboratory information management system.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Portugal based is preferred around the Lisbon area is best for us, as the job is hybrid working, in Alges area.

How can you help us?

As an instrument protocol Developer, you will develop and update new and existing drivers to support upwards of 250 laboratory instruments:

Estimate the complexity of development for new and existing instruments.Choose the most appropriate technical solution to meet the user requirements.Understand Delphi coding language.Design, develop and deploy changes to instrument Protocol drivers according to the customers’ and business users’ requirements.Support the applications in collaboration with the other team members.Have an understanding of 3rd party instrument integration middleware products.Ensuring good practices and high-quality standards are implemented and followed.Understand multiple communication protocols including:TCP/IPSerial/RS-232Web ServicesFTPSMBASTMHL7Proprietary protocolsUnderstanding of Database, Oracle DB and MSsqlUnderstanding of APIs and decoupling with APIs

What can we do for you?

A competitive salary package.Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities.Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organisation.A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.

What else should I know? 

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

2+ years of experience developing instrument drivers.Experience with Delphi coding would be a clear bonus.Some experience with Oracle and MSsql databasesKnowledge of Windows ServicesStrong analysis, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.Some experience developing on and for Linux platforms.Experience with docker (image build and container management) would be a bonus.Strong knowledge of Agile software development practices, particularly Scrum and/or KanbanClear experience in collaboration with Product Owners and Software Architect(s)Some Experience in test driven development and test automationComfortable in unit testingAbility to translate functional requirements into technical solutions.

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.