Principal Software Engineer

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients - that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and possibilities.

Summary

Vantive has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease. This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the design, development and support of Vantive's Cloud based software that is related to our connected medicine strategy.

The Cloud based software will support connectivity of medical devices (Internet-of-Things "IoT") and mobile devices in the home and in clinics. The Cloud based software will support management of medical treatments at home/clinics and also enable management of the supply chain related to various medical treatments. The Cloud based software will also have an analytics component that will enable improved clinical outcomes and enable Vantive to develop better strategy based on deep insights.

You will be responsible for developing products that customers love and also provide creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid "hands-on" technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for providing leadership within assigned team to ensure key metrics for projects and/or sprints are met.

Develops a solid architecture that balances requirements from multiple stakeholders including marketing/product owner, program management, operations, quality assurance and service.

Must ensure that architecture allows meeting time-to-market, exceeding quality targets, quick diagnosis of problems in the field, quick diagnosis of issues during product development and requirements evolution (scalable/extensible).

Responsible for creating design artifacts based on requirements/use-cases and software architecture.

Responsible for implementing modules/units, performing peer code review, performing unit testing, subsystem testing and participating/leading various system integration activities.

Leads creation of software requirements based on understanding of customer needs and hosts JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions.

Reviews and supports creation of defect-free requirements/use cases.

Responsible for creating UI design based on current best practices for web-based and mobile customer-facing applications.

Provides design/technical specifications to external design partners.

Responsible for rapid prototyping of highly innovative concepts for concept/feasibility testing.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Required Skills

Highly process oriented.

Proficiency in software development life cycle methodologies including: Agile Iterative V-Model

Medical device software development knowledge preferred.

Familiarity with: IEC 62304 ISO 14971

Must have participated in several successful product introductions into the marketplace with measurable business impact.

Technical Expertise

Analysis & Design

Object Oriented Architecture

Design Patterns

UML

Server Technologies

Java

J2EE

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Client Technologies

HTML5

JavaScript

jQuery

Enterprise Integration

SOA

SOAP

REST

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Middleware

Apache Tomcat

Apache ActiveMQ

Messaging Queue Servers

Development Tools

Eclipse

STS

Swagger/OpenAPI

SVN

Git

Bitbucket

Jira

Fisheye

Sonar

Clover

Databases

Oracle Database

DML

DDL

AWS Services

S3

Kinesis

SQS

SNS

API Gateway

Lambda

DynamoDB

Leadership & Professional Skills

Ability to organize and present technical status to senior management.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to influence management.

Proven success delivering results on difficult technical challenges.

Passion for continuous learning.

Keeps up with current technology and industry trends.

Creates innovative software solutions.

Takes ownership of difficult challenges.

Questions the status quo.

Comfortable taking risks.

Can simplify complex information.

Highly organized.

Strong quality orientation.

Experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems.

Breaks down problems effectively.

Estimates development work accurately.

Explains technology from both business and technical perspectives.

Demonstrates clarity of thought.

Works effectively despite ambiguity.

Influences without direct authority.

Removes project obstacles.

Shares knowledge, power and credit.

Builds trust, credibility and goodwill.

Background and Experience

Bachelor's or Master's degree in: Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Software Engineering Related field

10–14 years of relevant experience.

Desired Characteristics

Demonstrated technical expertise and domain experience.

Understanding of the regulated healthcare industry.

Knowledge of FDA Design Controls is advantageous.

Previous experience in a regulated medical device company.

Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Experience with automated testing.

Knowledge of medical device software development.

Familiarity with IEC 62304 and ISO 14971.

This role is essentially a Principal Engineer / Technical Architect position with a strong emphasis on Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, architecture, medical device software, and technical leadership.

Reasonable Accommodation

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