Job Description Summary

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

The Pyxis ES Development team currently are looking for a software engineer manager. Candidates who would fit well in this position have an educational background in computer science or related degree, possess real-world experience working in collaborative, enterprise environments, are knowledgeable of modern web frameworks (especially React/NodeJS, Spring, Ruby, etc) and languages like C#, collaborate well with high-pace, hard-working agile teams, and are passionate about personal and team growth.  Desirable experience also includes container frameworks, security implementation (e.g. TLS/PKI, OAuth 2.0), messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ), database familiarity (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL), and construction and implementation of monitoring, management, observability, and log collation in systems.   An ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with microservices architectures and a mix of on-premise and cloud native system deployments.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Player-coach ability to perform the duties of a software engineer while providing leadership and mentoring of a small team of software engineers and software quality engineers.

• Lead hard-working teams of software engineers to deliver quality software products while balancing time, scope, and resources

• Collaborate with multiple engineering organizations to ensure dependencies and project timelines are fulfilled.

• Perform software design and implementation, following coding guidelines and considering system characteristics to produce optimal performance, reliability, and maintainability

• Conduct software evaluation and testing of own software, software from other engineering staff, and third-party software

• Provide technical documentation for the design, implementation and testing of the software

• Attend design review meetings as needed to adhere to the software development procedures

• Document and repair errors related to software

• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings and workshops

• Work with cross-functional project teams to complete Product Engineering projects with minimal guidance

• Develop cohesive interpersonal working relationships with all peers and team members

• Work with source code management tools (e.g. Github) and work tracking tools (e.g. JIRA)

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’ Degree required. Master's or advanced degree strongly preferred.

• At least 10 years of growing responsibility in Research & Development roles.

• Proven track record of delivering software solutions in a high-quality manner, balancing business objectives, engineering requirements, proper architectural implementation, security, and solid development principles.

• Experience operating in agile development environments is preferred.

• Experience with healthcare environments is preferred.

• Experience with cloud-based technologies from public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCF, Azure) is preferred.

• Experience with REST architecture is preferred

• Experience with RPC protocols is a plus

• Experience with Container orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift) is preferred.

• Experience with multiple database implementations (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, non-relational databases) is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong written and oral communication skills required. Exp