Principal Software Engineer - Cloud

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our growing team and lead the development and strategy for our Digital Medicine Platform’s service layer. As the ideal candidate, you have the ability to lead teams working on sophisticated technical projects. You will help other engineers design systems, scope and decompose projects, manage technical debt and risk, promote best practices, and mentor others on the team. You will also work closely with product teams as new features are developed and platform capabilities expand to meet new requirements.

You will be energized to transform and think critically on product development with a focus on design and architectural best practices including the creation of components built for reuse, testing, offline behavior, performance, and new technology adoption. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are essential.

Your team’s primary focus is building core platform services that are leveraged by our patient- and provider-facing client applications (mobile and web). The engineers are also responsible for working as part of a cross-functional team to ensure the successful integration of RESTful APIs with client applications as well as our analytics platform and third-party vendors.

Lastly, we continuously explore new technologies, deliver dynamically, and evolve continuously to drive value for our customers. We do so with curiosity, imagination, and resilience.

• Design and implement high-performance, scalable, data-centric, serverless microservices
• Own and deliver software architecture, diagrams, design documents
• Primary engineering lead, directing a team of Cloud/backend developers in the delivery of products, both in an R&D and Commercial setting
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation and roll out applications with cross-functional impact
• Own the continuous improvement and fine-tuning of API performance, scalability, and security
• Independently design, code, and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
• Creates tests and contributes to the development of CI/CD pipelines
• Flexible approach to analyzing technical issues and clearly communicating recommendations/solutions
• Participate in several cross-functional roles on small, highly productive Agile scrum team
• Proficient in agile development methodologies
• Expected to deliver consistently with little supervision
• Own and deliver software architecture, diagrams, design documents
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Establish long term and evolving bug fixing solutions, improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• 4-year degree preferred relevant experience will be considered
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ Years of leading engineering or R&D teams focused on building Cloud-native applications
• 5+ years of Back-end experience: NodeJS, JSON, REST, Microservices, DynamoDB, NoSQL
• 4+ years of AWS Lambda or any cloud functions technology is a must
• Expert level experience in building cloud services. You have experience developing scalable, high-performance, and operable cloud services.
• Expert level experience developing backend applications using Python or NodeJS
• Demonstrated expertise managing complex integration solutions, such as APIs, and data integration layers (Batch & Real-Time)
• Proven ability to define and implement effective software development methodologies
• Experience developing large-scale consumer-facing micro-services solution is highly recommended
• Experience working with AWS services like API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, and Cognito
• Experience with automating complex services on AWS using Terraform, Serverless, or another infrastructure/application framework as part of a CI/CD pipeline strategy
• Strong preference for someone with experience creating event-driven architectures
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate or higher

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• Gitlab CI/CD with focus on CI/CD for AWS serverless deployments
• PHI/PII and/or Med device or other device-related experience
• Demonstrated expertise in applying FDA design control requirements (21 CFR ) as applied to medical device software and medical device regulation (IEC-62304)

Competencies
Accountability for Results - Stay focused on key strategic objectives, be accountable for high standards of performance, and take an active role in leading change.
Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Make decisions considering the long-term impact to customers, patients, employees, and the business.
Patient & Customer Centricity - Maintain an ongoing focus on the needs of our customers and/or key stakeholders.
Impactful Communication - Communicate with logic, clarity, and respect. Influence at all levels to achieve the best results for Otsuka.
Respectful Collaboration - Seek and value others’ perspectives and strive for diverse partnerships to enhance work toward common goals.
Empowered Development - Play an active role in professional development as a business imperative.

Company benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, company provided basic life, accidental death & dismemberment, short-term and long-term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, a generous 401(k) match, flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid leave programs as well as other company provided benefits.

Come discover more about Otsuka and our benefit offerings; https://www.otsuka-us.com/careers-join-otsuka.

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