Principal Software Engineer

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 faci