Senior Software Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Full Stack Developer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join our Global Commercial Digital Innovation team. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying complex software applications, and mentoring junior developers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.

• Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment. Manage software delivery scope, risk, and timeline

• Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using cloud technology.

• Develop innovative solutions leveraging advanced data-driven algorithms and computational techniques.

• Define and implement robust software architectures on the cloud, AWS preferred

• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.

• Create and maintain documentation on software architecture, design, deployment, disaster recovery, and operations.

• Identify and resolve technical challenges effectively.

• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements

• Work closely with product team, business team, and other stakeholders.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will have these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 2 years of software development experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of software development experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 8 years of software development experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of software development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Hands on experience with various cloud services, understand pros and cons of various cloud service in well architected cloud design principles

• Hands on experience with Full Stack software development. Proficient in programming language Python(preferred), JavaScript(including ReactJS), SQL/NoSQL.

• Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experienced with API integration, serverless, microservices architecture.

• Experience in SQL/NOSQL database, vector database for large language models

• Experience with Web site development, understand of web site localization processes, which involve adapting content to fit cultural and linguistic contexts.

• Experience with popular large language models

• Experience with Langchain or llamaIndex framework for language models; Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning

• Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline

• Experience with design patterns, data structures, test-driven development

• Knowledge of latest techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

Education and Professional Certifications

• Cloud Computing certificate preferred

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to w