The Principal Software Engineer will lead product development for web-based software, engaging in design, testing, and technical support while ensuring compliance with software lifecycle protocols and quality standards.
Position Summary:
The candidate will participate in product development activities related to the design, development, testing, and/or support of web-based software for NxStage Medical’s products.
Specific Duties:
- Design, develop, code and unit test software following internal design control SOPs
- Apply state-of-the-art methods in creating software for NxStage products; develop improvements to existing designs.
- Apply the principles of software design, software life cycle, and software maintainability, as applicable.
- Debugging new designs and developing reliability improvements to existing & new design
- Participate in multidisciplinary teams, including pairing with other engineers to solve complex problems.
- Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation
- Follow Design Control SOPs for projects and programs, including following the software development lifecycle.
- Work with Quality Assurance to meet the requirements of our internal Quality System, including specific requirements of GMPs, FDA QSR, relevant IEC standards, and ISO 9001.
- Assist in Risk Analysis including, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Operator Misuse Analysis (OMA), and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities to ensure process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed
- Assist in developing reports and other data mining activities.
- Assist in Integrating NxStage Medical’s products with customer systems.
- Assist with researching and resolving software related customer complaints.
- Ensure all systems and data are protected according to relevant SOPs.
Education & Qualification:
- BS in Computer Science with a focus on software design and programming.
- 10+ years of experience in software product engineering and development.
Requirements:
- Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Experience in microservices design and implementation
- Experience in OOD/OOP and multi-tiered business logic implementation.
- Experience in building Restful API application using MS Azure technologies
- C#, .Net Core, and SQL Language Skills.
- Experience in Web GUI design
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Development Tools.
- Conduct code reviews, create and maintain requirements and specification documents
- Create and execute unit tests as part of software validation efforts
- Strong knowledge of project lifecycles, software development environments, and source control techniques.
Desirable:
- Familiar with Azure Cloud Technologies such DevOps, Kubernetes, Service Bus, CI/CD pipelines
- Familiar with Identity management technologies (e.g. Entra ID) and distributed cache (e.g. Redis)
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry, medical device preferred.
- Experience and knowledge of cybersecurity methodologies and testing
- Experience with automated testing.
- Knowledge of Networks, Network infrastructure and Network protocols
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EOE, disability/veteransTop Skills
.Net Core
C#
Ci/Cd
DevOps
Kubernetes
Azure
Service Bus
SQL
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