Staff Software Engineer - Enabling Tech R&D

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

R&D Software/Systems Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Staff Software Engineer - Enabling Tech R&D - to join our MedTech Team located in Warsaw, IN or Boston, MA.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose: The Staff Software Engineer, Enabling Tech R&D will be a key supporting role in the team on the forefront of digital technology for the orthopedic medical device industry. This role will support the Enabling Technology R&D team with all aspects of the product development process. The candidate for this role is a strong collaborator that takes the time to understand the project scope to drive product improvements and efficiently generate technical documentation. In this role, you will lead and execute various Enabling Technology and Digital Surgery projects. Emphasis will be on delivering projects on time, within budget in a compliant and reliable manner.

You will:

• Use standard methodologies for building Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) technology under Design Control procedures.

• Translate requirements into application features and document architecture and design decisions.

• Extend and enhance an existing complex software system.

• Update and enhance APIs and SQL Databases.

• Design, develop, and debug software for complex, multi-process systems.

• Implement client-side, server-side, and database software.

• Design and implement interfaces for data exchange with other systems.

• Create and monitor technical aspects of the project.

• Analyze and evaluate new technologies, recommending improvements to existing products.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 9 years of hands-on software development experience.

• Proficiency in C# (.NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 6+).

• Extensive application debugging/troubleshooting with Visual Studio.

• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL, Web API development, and UI development with WPF.

• Experience with cross-functional new product development teams.

• Effective communication skills for conveying critical design/project information to customers.

• Familiarity with high-quality software practices (test-driven development, documentation, software review processes, and cross-platform support) is a plus.

Preferred:

• Understand methodologies for building Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) technology under Design Control procedures

• Familiarity with high-quality software practices (test-driven development, documentation, software review processes, and cross-platform support) i