Staff Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryWe are looking for an experienced Staff Software engineer in Our Maternal & Infant Care team. The person will be a core member of software team to design, develop & deliver software for device and Digital Solutions products. The person will be responsible for building software products with highest quality in a timely manner and provide technical leadership to team for software design, architecture, development and maintenance. We need a team player with strong communication skills, motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
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Job Description

­­Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop and maintain/improve the features using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure.
• Be a role model and provide technical leadership for team to follow design best practice and customer first mindset.
• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate, and justify the estimate with facts.
• Work in fast paced, agile/scrum development model on cutting edge technologies in delivering integrated software products collaborating with different teams, with a high do/say ratio and uncompromised quality.
• Collaborates with Principal Engineers, cross-functional team architects, to understand their evolving requirements and translates them to architectural runway features and executes them.
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
• Seek and provide feedback on design and development.
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment.
• Understand whole product, its modules, and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module.
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs.
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices.
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision.
• Write code that meets coding & quality standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.
• Working with clinical and product marketing personnel to understand user needs, define software requirements, and develop proof of concept solutions.
• Collaborating with verification teams for appropriate testing of features developed

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in object-oriented design and programming in a production software environment using Agile development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in Linux based products with C++, Python, embedded Devp and C.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, Design patterns, Algorithms and data structures.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, working with existing, complex code base.
• Proven background as a technical leader for end-to-end systems & experiences.
• Knowledge of Microcontrollers and Microprocessors, Real-time Operating systems.

Desired Characteristics:

• Understanding of medical devices/ medical software development
• Strong problem-solving abilities and communication skills
• Self-starter, motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work with global cross functional teams, flexible to accommodate time zones as required.
• Proven ability to quickly ramp-up on complex and unfamiliar code, and ability to pick up new languages/frameworks as needed.
• Proven knowledge of the Software development lifecycle in product delivery and maintenance.
• Experience leading projects across the product lifecycle – concept creation, new product development, iteration of existing products.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.

Note

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

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