Principal Software Engineer - Edge, Barcelona

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Principal Software Engineer - Edge, Barcelona

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Location: Barcelona, Spain

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Other

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Yes

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4

Posted:

06.03.2025

Expiry Date:

20.04.2025

Job Description:

The Position

Roche Diagnostics has created a new Platform area that will change the way software is developed at Roche. Our challenge is to bring together complex diagnostic and treatment data to intelligently process and present this data to healthcare professionals which allows for improved patient care. If you want to be a part of revolutionizing the healthcare industry, join us to put your software touch on it!

We are looking for candidates with a deep understanding of modern Edge architecture needs and constraints and experience across the full stack with a “create tools, not band-aids” DevOps mindset. If you would rather improve health outcomes for millions instead of helping sell ads on the Internet, this is the job for you!

You'll get to build a new level of services on the Edge enabling and improving our SaaS business from the ground up with the ability to influence the product and architecture and lots of opportunities for growth.

The Principal Software Engineer is a key member of a team of 7+ engineers and will apply knowledge of design principles, practices in the implementation of complex, enterprise-scale software systems. General responsibilities include design concept generation, participating in and leading design reviews for components or features, development and testing of the core software stack, and reliability testing.

Provides technical leadership for a medium- to large-sized team with limited or no guidance from management or senior teammates. Provides technical leadership and mentors junior developers. Uses solid understanding of the business domain and how that domain interacts with other domains to help shape technical requirements and solutions. Be the advocate for the domain and influence the architecture and directions of the product design.

Your Mindset:

Do you adhere to a set of SW principles and practices that you apply always or based on context? Did you provide successful guidance to teams in applying those principles and practices? We would like to know more about it.

Among other things we’re strong advocates of TDD, BDD and Continuous Delivery. We think those represent such a particular mindset we’d only consider you for a senior position if you have significant working experience with them. If you do have working experience with those practices, great! We want to know more. How much? How did you do TDD? Where did you apply BDD? Why? What are your main contributions to enable Continuous Delivery? What problems have you faced? The more the better!

What you’ll be doing:

1. Solution design: design platform services ready to be consumed by other engineering teams leveraging technologies like Kubernetes and AWS.
2. Software Development: This is a hands-on software development position to write high-quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.
3. Process & Operations: Ensure the software stack integrates with our existing CI/CD pipeline and contribute to continuous improvement; independently design, plan and deliver high-quality software.
4. Leadership: Ensure a culture that values technical excellence together with support and compassion for individuals.
5. Platform Components/Services Ownership: In collaboration with the Platform Owners, since the platform is intended for developers, you may take ownership over specific requirements related to platform components or services, defining the details and prioritizing based on other developer needs.

Your Qualifications:

1. BS/MS degree in Computer Science or directly related discipline.
2. 10+ years of hands-on industry experience as a software engineer.
3. Experience providing leadership and mentorship to more junior engineers in the teams.
4. Lead architecture and design discussions to come up with the most effective technical solution.
5. Quick learner with the ability to understand complex workflows and develop and validate innovative solutions to solve difficult problems.
6. Have the ability to influence within and outside the team. You actively participate and influence open/inner-sourcing initiatives and/or software communities.
7. Have successfully built, deployed, and supported an enterprise-scale web application in the edge and/or in a multi-instance cloud.

Technical experience:

1. 3+ years hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
2. 2+ years hands-on experience with AWS.
3. Full-stack experience, with expertise in backend software that is deployed in the Edge.
4. Hands-on software development on top of Kubernetes creating highly reliable and safe healing solutions (helm charts creation, Kustomize and docker).
5. Hands-on software development extensive experience in Java working with different Spring boot projects, testing frameworks and integration libraries and tools (reactive libraries and architectures experience is a plus).
6. Secure infrastructure as code provisioning experience or strong knowledge (AWS and terraform related preferred).
7. Experience in healthcare is not required, but familiarity with data standards and workflows is a plus (HL7, IHE).

Nice to Have:

Hands-on software development experience in Go/Rust/C, especially developing operators or low level communication protocols is a great plus.