Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description Summary

As Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area. She/he will work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business. She/he will Lead design discussion in a limited manner.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will

- Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts
- Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
- Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
- Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
- Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
- Seek and provide feedback on design and development
- Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
- Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
- Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
- Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
- Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
- Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs
- Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
- Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice
- Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
- Provide guidance to a team of developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
- Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
- Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.

Educational Qualification

- Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with significant experience.

Technical Qualifications

- 9+ years of professional software development experience with history of technical innovation.
- 3+ years of experience with building scalable, distributed systems using modern frameworks such as AWS or Cloud.
- Experience in design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience using Java or typescript & scripting language- Python or Golang.
- Experience with design and implementation of micro services / containers -Docker & Kubernetes.
- Experience with design and implementation of micro services / containers.
- Experience with design/architecting large-scale distributed systems preferably using AWS technologies.
- Experience with supporting production software deployments
- Technical expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, and on-premises infrastructure
- Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software architectures for complex products.
- Experience in containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture.

Desired Qualifications

- Experience including with data systems, analytics.
- Experience working directly with end customers to assess needs, identify solutions, and constructively resolve disagreements
- Bring fresh ideas from all areas, including testing and validation automation while maintaining the production availability, conversion automation, distributed computing, large-scale system design
- Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within Agile processes
- Excellent technical problem-solving skills and aptitude to learn new technologies and methodologies.

Business Acumen

- Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates.
- Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement
- Able to articulate the value of what is most important to the business/customer to achieve outcomes
- Able to produce functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts.
- Possess extensive knowledge of full solution catalog within a business unit and proficiency in discussing each area at an advanced level.
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certification or equivalent quality certification

Leadership

- Demonstrated working knowledge of internal organization
- Foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources, rally teammates.
- Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel.
- Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels
- Proven analytical and problem resolution skills
- Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you'd expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No