Principal Software Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Princeton, NJ
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will develop and maintain front-end applications, enhance user experiences, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include code reviews, testing, implementing RESTful APIs, and ensuring performance and security in front-end development. The role requires leadership in coding standards and best practices.
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Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain and enhance front-end applications by fixing errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary.
  • Identify and resolve front-end issues through code reviews and testing.
  • Promote a security-minded approach to front-end development, applying secure coding principles.
  • Make design decisions that contribute to a consistent and reliable delivery of front-end product requirements.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including back-end developers, to gather requirements and design comprehensive front-end solutions.
  • Develop and maintain front-end applications using Angular.js and other relevant frameworks, adhering to best practices for performance, security, and maintainability.
  • Implement RESTful APIs and integration layers to enable seamless communication between front-end and back-end components.
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and perform thorough unit testing and integration testing to ensure robustness and quality of front-end applications.
  • Monitor front-end application performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize application behavior using relevant monitoring and logging tools.
  • Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to team members, and promote coding standards and best practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Requires significant knowledge of front-end development principles typically gained through a university degree and 5 years of experience or HS diploma/technical school and relevant certifications plus 5 years of experience.
  • Experience as a UI Developer with familiarity in Angular.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks like Angular or React.
  • Experience in developing and deploying front-end applications on AWS using services such as Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
  • Familiarity with RESTful API design and integration patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD processes.
  • Writing, debugging, unit testing, and performance testing front-end code.
  • Basic understanding of AWS services like S3 (for hosting) and CloudFront (for CDN).
  • Demonstrates openness to learning and developing. Takes responsibility for their own development and growth.
  • Openly considers new ways and solutions to enhance their own work and offers new ideas/continuous improvement.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

Top Skills

Angular.Js
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
The Company
HQ: Lawrence Township, NJ
40,384 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.

Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.

Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.

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