Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack Web Applications Development

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

About the role:

At the Boston Scientific Interventional Oncology & Embolization (IO&E) franchise within the Peripheral Intervention division, we design devices used by interventional radiologists in minimally invasive image-guided procedures. Our products include radioembolic beads, cryoablation systems, coils, particles & gels for embolization, as well as catheters and wires.  

 

We have an exciting opportunity on our Therasphere R&D team for a Principal Software Engineer- Full Stack Web Applications Development to work in partnership with Marketing, Program Management, IT, Sales, Legal, Regulatory, and other internal stakeholders to shape franchise software strategy and lead digital product development efforts focused on enhancing customer experience.  The ideal candidate will have proven experience in digital product development using agile, lean and user centered design methodologies in the healthcare space.  If you are a driven individual with a strong product mindset and excellent problem-solving and communication skills, we would love to hear from you. 

 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Work in partnership, as the technical lead to architect, develop and maintain scalable web applications using React for the front-end and implement server-side logic and APIs using Next.js on the back end.
• Manage and deploy applications on AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that follows industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the team especially to mentor junior developers.
• Solicit input from Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Security and other functions to ensure the franchise delivers compliant software in an agile manner.
• Utilize and promote the adoption of best practices such as Agile, Lean and User Centered Design to execute on product development projects in partnership with internal cross-functional teams and external partners. 
• Promote a balanced product development team: integrate and enrich engineering, product design, product management, and data science cultures internally. 
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in web development and about industry trends, emerging technologies and best practices in digital product management and help shape the digital future of the IO&E franchise. 

 

Required qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or another relevant discipline 
• 8+ years of demonstrated experience in full stack web application development using Angular/ Vue.js/React with a focus on React front-end development over the last 3+ years.
• Proficiency in Next.js and understanding of server-side rendering concepts.
• Expert level knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of TDD principles and testing methodologies and Unit Test Frameworks such as Jest.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to align stakeholders and develop strong relationships, coach stakeholders that are not digital-savvy and fully leverage their knowledge and support. 
• Demonstrated success leading in a team environment to deliver digital products that achieve expected outcomes, and able to coordinate high-quality product releases. 
• Strong analytical mindset - understands key impact on customers and stakeholders. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Expert practitioner of agile development methodologies, lean startup and design thinking methodologies. 
• Experience working in databases like MySQL, PostGreSQL, MongoDB and with, artificial intelligence/ machine learning tools, cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake and with DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes
• Ability to create and maintain dashboards and reports using Tableau to visualize data effectively.
• Entrepreneurial spirit that can operate independently with little direction and challenge the status quo. 
• Experience working in a regulated environment, ideally including software as a medical device (SaMD) expe