
Overview
Emmes Group: Building a better future for us all.
Emmes Group is transforming the future of clinical research, bringing the promise of new medical discovery closer within reach for patients. Emmes Group was founded as Emmes more than 47 years ago, becoming one of the primary clinical research providers to the US government before expanding into public-private partnerships and commercial biopharma. Emmes has built industry leading capabilities in cell and gene therapy, vaccines and infectious diseases, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience.
We believe the work we do will have a direct impact on patients’ lives and act accordingly. We strive to build a collaborative culture at the intersection of being a performance and people driven company. We’re looking for talented professionals eager to help advance clinical research as we work to embed innovation into the fabric of our company. If you share our motivations and passion in research, come join us!
OptymEdge is a global leader in ophthalmic endpoint certification, partnering with leading biopharma sponsors and CROs to ensure the quality and consistency of visual function data in clinical trials. With a reputation built on scientific expertise, operational excellence, and global delivery, we’ve become a trusted name in advancing treatments for sight-threatening diseases.
Primary Purpose
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 5-7 years of experience to design, develop, and optimize advanced Ophthalmology imaging applications.
You will play a critical role in developing the Image viewer, annotation tools, image management workflows, and frontend-backend integration necessary for a scalable, clinical-grade ophthalmology imaging system.
- Design, build, and optimize interactive image viewers for Ophthalmologic Imaging solution
- Develop robust annotation tools supporting manual segmentation, labeling, corrections, and metadata capture.
- Implement image upload/download workflows, versioning, session handling, and data security.
- Collaborate with AI Imaging Engineers to integrate segmentation outputs into the viewer and annotation modules.
- Work with Backend Engineers to define and consume secure APIs for imaging data management.
- Ensure clinical-grade performance for large image sets (responsive, low-latency frontend experience).
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following software engineering best practices.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of professional software development experience building full-stack or frontend applications.
- Strong expertise in ReactJS (hooks, state management, component design) and modern frontend frameworks.
- Experience working with WebGL, Canvas, or advanced rendering libraries for imaging applications.
- Solid backend integration experience with RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
- Working knowledge of Python services (Flask/FastAPI) for API communication (you don't need to be a Python backend expert, but you should know how to consume and work with it).
- Exposure to handling large imaging files (DICOM, TIFF etc.) and browser-based optimization techniques.
- Understanding of basic cloud concepts (AWS S3, Cloudfront, Authentication flows)
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