Principal Software Engineer (SaMD)

 

Innovation - Diversity - 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.

Principal Software Engineer/ Architect - Software as a Medical Device - Oncology

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.  Join us in developing our Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) products that save lives.

We have an exciting opportunity on our Therasphere R&D team for a Principal Software Engineer/ Architect to lead digital product development efforts, working in partnership with Marketing, Program Management, IT, Sales, Legal, Regulatory, and other internal stakeholders to shape franchise software strategy focused on enhancing customer experience.  The ideal candidate will have proven experience in digital product development using waterfall, agilefall, 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.
• Develops solutions to complex technical problems by challenging traditional technical assumptions.
• Manage and deploy applications on AWS EKS 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.
• Mentor engineering staff, providing technical guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Solicit input from Quality, Regulatory, Design Assurance, Legal, Security and other functions to ensure the franchise delivers compliant Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained in order to ensure Quality System compliance and adherence to the organization’s Quality Policy.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.
• 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 relev