Company Overview

Nuance Communications, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand, analyze and respond to human language, amplifying human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations – in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services, retail, and more – to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers.

Join our Healthcare team...caring for clinicians the way they care for patients. Beyond words. We create technology that lets clinicians capture and document care quickly and easily so they can focus their attention on their patients

Job Summary

Summary: Engineering manager focused on client and server component development for real-time speech recognition applications hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Tasks include REST API definition/implementation, web service development/consumption, in-memory data storage architecture, and deployment concepts, such as global load balancing, fail over, micro services and distributed databases. Develop multi-platform SDKs for integration into Nuance products and for distribution to development partners. Position reports to Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee design, implementation and integration activities for modules developed in C#, C++, Objective C and Java.
• Experience architecting and implementing new modules as well as debugging issues in existing code.
• Experience implementing unit tests and applying Test Driven Development.
• Strong experience with IaaS and PaaS environments, such as Azure and AWS.
• Work with various operating platforms and third-party SDKs in the production of embedded systems meeting high performance, security, and scalability expectations.
• Positive attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience leading a geographically-distributed team

• Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes that you are responsible for securing.

Qualifications

Number of Years of Work Experience: 8

Required Skills:

• Solid knowledge of C#, .Net (MFC, WPF, WCF, REST)
• Solid knowledge of C++
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS
• Experience Developing Mobile Apps.
• Strong experience with web service development
• Demonstrated OOD expertise
• Knowledge of the Java and Objective C languages a plus
• Hands on experience with a combination of various other technologies and platforms, any of the following are useful; TCP/IP, SOAP, XML, WEB servers (Tomcat, IIS), WEB browsers (IE, Ant, Firefox, Chrome, Opera)
• Working knowledge of VMWare and Azure DevOps
• Experience building and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Skills:

• Healthcare Industry experience, especially applications associated with the doctor/patient encounter and clinical documentation capture/improvement
• Extensive experience in multithreaded and networked software development on embedded systems
• Experience with database schemas
• Conversant with UX design principles and attuned to a positive user experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 

Additional Information

Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.  

Nuance Communication Inc.  is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement is available here. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 781-565-5086 – Human Resources Department and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.