We needed to become familiar with the basics of genetics, oncology, and scientific evidence databases in order to communicate effectively with the team of scientists supporting the development process. Lack of documentation made it difficult to understand and improve the complex computational algorithms of core functions.

Understanding complex domain and computations

Unlike the monolithic application, whose components communicate via internal synchronous method calls, the event-driven microservices communicate via a message broker (Apache Kafka), which required new approaches to transaction and error handling. Another migration challenge was that physicians and scientists used the system during the migration process.

Migrating a monolithic system to microservices

Due to the obvious drawbacks of the old AngularJS framework, we had to sacrifice our usual development flow, which resulted in a software that did not work the way we expected. We knew from the beginning that we needed a flexible and powerful tool that came with great developer experience to build a sustainable product. For these reasons, React and Next.js were a clear choice for us.

Migrating to a modern UI framework

Oncompass is a health information company, which helps oncologists and cancer patients to find and access the best cancer therapies. Uniquely in the world, the Oncompass's Realtime Oncology Treatment Calculator is able, based on available scientific evidence, to rank personalised, targeted therapeutic options within 20 milliseconds for 405 cancer types, in 52,000 mutations, based on 26,838 medico-biological norms, and from among 1,417 medicinal active agents.

We have leveraged the network infrastructure automation capabilities of Consul and Nomad to ensure high availability (99.9999%) of the application and the ability to recover from errors independently. This allows the users of the system to work productively without being interrupted and having to wait for the system to be repaired.

Improved availability and resilience

Thanks to the new technology stack and architecture, we were able to reduce development time while code quality increased and fewer errors occurred during development. Although deploying and operating a microservices-based application is more challenging, leveraging Nomad's deployment capabilities resulted in significant improvements that contributed to a shorter time to market.

Reduced time to market

By improving unnecessarily complex elements of the user interface, we were able to significantly improve the overall user experience, which helps scientists and physicians reach important functions much more easily. Moving to the new architecture significantly improved  the overall development experience, and the time required to deploy features was reduced by several days per sprint in most cases.

Improved UX and DX

Oncompass is a health information company, which helps oncologists and cancer patients to find and access the best cancer therapies.

Recognizing the problems and limitations of the old architecture, we sat down with the technical team of Oncompass Medicine to discuss how we could create a more resilient system. We followed the principles of Domain Driven Design to thoroughly analyze the structure and relationships of the components so we could define the bounded contexts that formed the basis for the microservice architecture.

Redesigned architecture

The new technology stack consisting of Next.js, Java 11, Apache Kafka, Nomad, and Kong, made it possible to build a scalable and resilient system with reduced time to market and improved developer experience (DX).

Modern technologies

Since users were actively using the previous system, so we had to thoroughly investigate the biggest dependencies and tried to start our migration process with those functionalities. During this time, we provided the usual maintenance support to the scientists and physicians.

Feature migration

Oncompass Medicine

Because of Medipredict's vision, we have to deal with rapidly changing requirements. We need to create a software solution that meets the needs of experts in a rapidly evolving medical field while adhering to strict requirements of storing medical data. Client management involves several steps, all of which require user-friendly, customized software support.

Supporting the needs of medical experts

Since this is a greenfield project, we had to build our architecture from the bottom up. Our vision was to implement both the architecture and the software code base in a way that supported code maintainability, scalability, testability, simple and separate feature implementations with high availability, fast response times and excellent code quality.

Supporting rapid and versatile growth

Understanding complex medical data can be challenging, especially when you combine multiple medical specialties with large sample sizes. Our team has taken on the challenge of creating a platform that presents medical data in a meaningful and easy-to-understand way, while allowing you to dig deeper into your medical results and the health of your body if you are curious.

Presenting complex medical data to clients

Medipredict is a digital health company providing a comprehensive evaluation of your health status by combining information from multiple sources, such as detailed medical examinations, medical imaging, microbiome analysis, metabolomics, genomics and processing medical history.

With the help of this system, operators and experts can serve ten times more customers than before. By using data validation and multi-level automatic and manual monitoring, customer service became error-free. Workflow automation made processes more efficient, resulting in greater employee confidence and more satisfied customers.

Fully customized admin portal

By leveraging the infrastructural advantages of AWS, we are able to provide a service with 99.99% uptime while maintaining speed at a maximum through dynamic load balancing. Having created an easily extendable architecture, we are able to quickly deliver new functionality to the customer as requirements increase, without compromising code quality.

Fast and resilient architecture

With separate medical, metabolomics, genomics, and microbiome  science modules, codebases are more maintainable and features can be delivered faster. This architecture allows us to create specialized development teams for each module, leading to a deeper understanding of the domain and a closer relationship between the software engineers and the domain experts.

Separated domain modules

Medipredict is a digital health company providing a comprehensive evaluation of your health status by combining information from multiple sources.

Through this portal, doctors, experts and operators can manage the client journey. During this journey, operators organize events, doctors and experts upload medical results and evaluations on this portal. The scientific modules are able to perform automatic analysis and data processing. This solution creates a system where the knowledge of the experts and the speed and precision of the computers complement each other. By combining Java and Python modules, we are able to perform scientific calculations while maintaining the highest coding standards.

Admin portal and scientific modules

State-of-the-art AWS cloud solutions help us provide the highest availability and scalability possible. Every piece of code we implement is reviewed. In addition, each feature has automated tests such as end-to-end, integration, and unit tests supported by test containers to further ensure code quality. In addition, our codebase is separated in a package by feature basis, making it easy to add new aspects of the project or remove existing ones to support flexibility.

Cloud solutions with high quality standards

To help people without medical expertise understand their health condition, we have created the Client Portal. This portal is designed to give you an overview of your overall health and organ system in a simple but meaningful way, while allowing you to drill down into the details and take a closer look at your metabolomic biomarkers. You can also request a detailed PDF report to read at your leisure.

Client portal and reports

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We believe that the best way to work with our clients is to create an environment where everybody loves working because happy colleagues make clients happy.

# Our company:

We believe that the best way to work with our clients is to create an environment where everybody loves working because happy colleagues make clients happy. Many companies will tell you that you belong to them like family, but do you think 20000 people can sit around a happy family dinner? :)

At Bishop & Co, we are like a happy family. We work together, we have fun together, we support each other. We are a company with over 25 employees in Szeged, working on innovative, world-changing projects. It's true: if you want, for example, to rid the world of cancer, come to us and we will give you the chance. 

# What you can bring to us:

* you have at least a minimum of 3 years of experience in test automation.
* creating and applying test strategy based on identified factors - project's specifics, technology stack, automation tools, etc.
* designing test cases based on user stories/business requirements, creating and executing automated testing, reporting, and tracking defects in JIRA.
* creating test reports and collecting data for stakeholders and management.
* experience with Cucumber, JBehave, Selenium.
* good English communication skills.
* preferably some experience with Zephyr, Xray.
* having any experience in the medical / biology field is a plus.

# What we offer:

* remarkable compensation package.
* a supportive work environment, where you can use the latest technologies.
* a friendly, nice, and modern office in the middle of Szeged, at Kárász street.
* flexible working hours and location, to fully support one’s work-life balance. Also, we don’t have those special Hungarian working Saturdays. Transferred workdays are extra day-offs us in our company.
* standing desks, beers, and much more in the office! (we have coffee too, of course).
* regular performance feedback and a clear career path.
* opportunity to grow: Bishop Academy, English classes, the possibility to mentor others or get mentored.

If you are interested, apply now with the button below, or send us a mail at [people@bishop-co.com](mailto:people@bishop-co.com).

If you have a solid 3 years experience in automated testing, join us!

Test Automation Engineer

# Our company:

We believe that the best way to work with our clients is to create an environment where everybody loves working because happy colleagues make clients happy. Many companies will tell you that you belong to them like family, but do you think 20000 people can sit around a happy family dinner? :)

At Bishop & Co, we are like a happy family. We work together, we have fun together, we support each other. We are a company with over 25 employees in Szeged, working on innovative, world-changing projects. It's true: if you want, for example, to rid the world of cancer, come to us and we will give you the chance. 

# What you can bring to us:

* you have at least 4 years of experience in enterprise Java (Spring and JEE).
* excellent knowledge and understanding of OO principles and design patterns.
* stable software architect skills.
* good understanding of Relational Databases, SQL, NoSQL, and ORM technologies (Hibernate and/or JPA).
* great knowledge of APIs and their documentation, Cloud computing.
* hands-on experience with code versioning systems (Git, SVN) and unit testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG).
* you are capable and willing to lead and help the other developers by actively mentoring them.
* good English communication skills.

# What we offer:

* remarkable compensation package.
* a supportive work environment, where you can use the latest technologies.
* a friendly, nice, and modern office in the middle of Szeged, at Kárász street.
* flexible working hours and location, to fully support one’s work-life balance. Also, we don’t have those special Hungarian working Saturdays. Transferred workdays are extra day-offs us in our company.
* standing desks, beers, and much more in the office! (we have coffee too, of course).
* regular performance feedback and a clear career path.
* opportunity to grow: Bishop Academy, English classes, the possibility to mentor others or get mentored.

If you are interested, apply now with the button below, or send us a mail at [people@bishop-co.com](mailto:people@bishop-co.com).

If you are a backend developer with at least 4 years of experience in Java, join us!

Senior Backend Engineer

# Our company:

We believe that the best way to work with our clients is to create an environment where everybody loves working because happy colleagues make clients happy. Many companies will tell you that you belong to them like family, but do you think 20000 people can sit around a happy family dinner? :)

At Bishop & Co, we are like a happy family. We work together, we have fun together, we support each other. We are a company with over 25 employees in Szeged, working on innovative, world-changing projects. It's true: if you want, for example, to rid the world of cancer, come to us and we will give you the chance.  

# What you can bring to us:

* a solid understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
* at least 4 years of industry experience
* experience with React or Vue frameworks such as Next.js or Nuxt
* experience with Storybook
* experience in building cross-browser user interfaces based on design guidelines
* you know how you can monitor and improve the performance of your application
* you are familiar with Lerna and Nx
* it’s super great if you are familiar with Atomic Design
* you have hands-on experience with design systems such as Material UI, Ant, or AtlasKit
* good English communication skills

# What we offer:

* remarkable compensation package.
* a supportive work environment, where you can use the latest technologies.
* a friendly, nice, and modern office in the middle of Szeged, at Kárász street.
* flexible working hours and location, to fully support one’s work-life balance. Also, we don’t have those special Hungarian working Saturdays. Transferred workdays are extra day-offs us in our company.
* standing desks, beers, and much more in the office! (we have coffee too, of course).
* regular performance feedback and a clear career path.
* opportunity to grow: Bishop Academy, English classes, the possibility to mentor others or get mentored.

If you are interested, apply now with the button below, or send us a mail at [people@bishop-co.com](mailto:people@bishop-co.com).

If you have a solid understanding of JavaScript fundamentals and modern technologies such as React and Vue frameworks and have at least 4 years of experience, you should take a look at this opportunity.

Senior UI Engineer

We mainly use Agile development methods to clarify requirements and do the software development part itself, providing weekly feedback and demonstrating the product in its current state. This approach allows you to identify any necessary changes early on, so you end up with what your business really needs.

Web App Development

We will build the perfect app based on your requirements, using the Swift language developed by Apple. If your target is Android, by using Kotlin or Java, we deliver the right Android application that meets all your business requirements.

iOS / Android Native Mobile App Development

Do you need an app for both iOS and Android, but do not want to double your development costs? We have a lot of experience with the power of Flutter and the Dart language, which allow app development for both platforms.

Flutter Cross-Platform Development

You may want to consider upgrading your current solution to a faster, modern stack that is easier to maintain. We can help you choose the right technologies that will save you money and make your workflow more reliable.

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