Principal Software Engineer - Global IT Digital Health Mobile Platform
Medtronic - Minneapolis, MN
posted 16 days ago
About the position
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. The Medtronic Product Innovation organization is Medtronic's global technology team focused on next generation software product capabilities which deliver on the Medtronic mission and vision to deliver Insight Driven Care. This role will operate within the Digital Health subgroup of the broader Product Innovation team, focused on patient engagement, care coordination, AI, healthcare analytics & interoperability amongst other advanced technologies which enhance our product portfolio with new services, while improving clinical & patient experiences. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result -and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
Responsibilities
- Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes in the cloud development & engineering.
- Architect, design, and develop advanced mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define project requirements and deliverables.
- Collaborates with back-end developers to integrate RESTful APIs and AWS based microservices.
- Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
- May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
- May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
- Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
- Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve problems.
- Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
- Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
- Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.
- Ensures system implementation compliance with global & local regulatory and security standards (i.e. HIPAA, SOCII, ISO27001, etc.)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree
Nice-to-haves
- Previous Healthcare or Medical Device experience
- Strong experience building multi-platform mobile solutions
- Experience in mobile performance optimization
- Experience with mobile deployment and distribution services
- Proficient in Kotlin
- Knowledge of Android design principles and Material Design
- Proficient with Android frameworks; Ex. Health Connect
- Proficient in Swift
- Strong understand of iOS frameworks; Ex. UIKit, HealthKit, ResearchKit, etc.
- Knowledge of Apple design principles and guidelines
- Experience with JSON, XML and DTO schema definitions for data transfer.
- Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools
- Comfort in scripting language such as Python, Bash, etc.
- Familiarity with monitoring & logging tools like CloudWatch, ELK, Dynatrace, Prometheus, etc.
- Expertise with git commands and associated VCS (Gitlab, Github, Gitea or similar)
- Experience with Docs as Code and markup languages for creating technical documentation
- Working knowledge and experience implementing healthcare data solutions with FHIR and HL7v2 standards
- Building software classified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
- Understanding of EHR technologies such as EPIC, Cerner, etc.
- Experience implementation enterprise grade cyber security & privacy by design into software products
- Experience developing global applications
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Software estimation
- Experience leading software development teams onshore and offshore
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
