Nova AI Senior Software Engineer Backend (C#)

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH 

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

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Olympus, a leading medical technology company, has focused on making people’s lives better for over 100 years.

Our Purpose is to make people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling.

 

Our Core Values are reflected in all we do: Integrity – Empathy – Agility – Unity – Long-Term View

 

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Job Description

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Olympus, one of the largest medical technology companies globally, in collaboration with BCG X, is building a new Digital Unit that will be tasked with innovating and building new strategic products that will expand on its product offerings and impact across the globe.

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping detect, prevent, and treat disease, furthering scientific research, ensuring public safety, and capturing images of the world. Olympus medical solutions and products are used to provide better diagnostic outcomes for millions of patients across the globe.

At Olympus, you have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the world.  Your work can help save lives and improve patient outcomes.  As a leading provider of advanced medical technologies, Olympus is at the forefront of a new strategic initiative to become a digital leader in the healthcare industry.  The new Digital Unit will focus on experimenting, incubating, and bringing to market new technological offerings and digital products that will not only enhance Olympus’s position in the market but spearhead the development of new technologies that will reconceptualize the experience for both patients and medical professionals globally. Join us in building our next generation digital platform, which integrates data and AI to streamline and automate medical workflows and transform the way healthcare professionals provide care.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced (Senior) Backend Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems using C# /.NET.

Job Duties

• Software Development.
• Write high-quality, secure, and maintainable code to deliver on agile user stories, ensuring that our platform is reliable and scalable.
• Develop and maintain unit tests with a high degree of code coverage, ensuring that our code is rigorously tested and optimized for performance.
• Perform code reviews on other team members' pull requests, providing constructive feedback and guidance to improve the quality of our code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production, working closely with the team to identify and implement effective solutions.
• Create clear and concise documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments that illustrate the type of code needed.
• Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance, ensuring that our platform is easily maintainable and upgradable.
• Maintain compliance with applicable policies and procedures for areas such as Quality, Security, and Privacy, ensuring that our platform is secure and compliant with industry standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate actively in sprint meetings, including planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to provide input and collaborate with the team.
• Design and develop scalable backend systems using C# / .NET
• Implement and maintain relational databases, such as Postgres or SQL Server, ensuring optimal performance and data integrity.
• Apply knowledge of message bus technologies, such as RabbitMQ, and event store platforms like Apache Kafka to enhance system capabilities.
• Implement and practice test-driven development across the pyramid using tools such as xUnit, NUnit, Fluent Assertions, Moq, and Respawn.
• Utilize cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform to deploy and manage applications.
• Collaborate with the team to develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines, leveraging tools like Azure Pipelines.

Job Qualifications

Required:

• A college or advanced educational degree is not necessarily required for this position.  We also value education achieved via work experience, coursework and training, and even self-guided learning.
• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a focus on bac