Specialist Software Engineer

Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we've helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world's toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you'll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you'll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world's toughest diseases, and make people's lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what's known today.

Specialist Software Engineer (Sr. Full Stack Engineer)

What you will do

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying complex software applications, and mentoring junior developers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment. Manage software delivery scope, risk, and timeline
• Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using cloud technology.
• Develop innovative solution using generative AI technologies
• Define and implement robust software architectures on the cloud, AWS preferred
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Create and maintain documentation on software architecture, design, deployment, disaster recovery, and operations.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges effectively.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements
• 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
• Work closely with product team, business team, and other stakeholders.

What we expect of you

• We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree / Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 8 to 13 years of Information Systems experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in SQL/NOSQL database, vector database for large language models
• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning
• Experience with DevOps/MLOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
• Experience with design patterns, data structures, test-driven development
• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus, as well as enterprise architectures.

Professional Certifications

• AWS Developer certification (preferred)
• Any SAFe Agile certification (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating efforts.
• Awareness of industry trends.
• Ability to analyze the impact of technology choices.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Effective team-building and problem-solving abilities.
• Persistence to completion, especially in the face of setbacks, and the ability to push for results through team spirit.
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we'll support your journey every step of the way.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.