Staff Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryAs a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. You’ll take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.

At GE HealthCare, we are committed to bringing cloud-based solutions for our customers: all aspects of computing services across the cloud and edge – including servers, databases, storage, networking, analytics, software, intelligence are delivered over the Internet. Our Science & Technology organization is harnessing the power of technology to make healthcare more precise, more personalized, and more accessible for everyone. From driving the overall clinical research and patient-centric innovation strategy to delivering new digital and machine learning capabilities - we’re committed to leading digital transformation, improving outcomes for patients and providers, and creating a world where healthcare has no limits.

This role is Hybrid (3 days in office 2 days remote) and will require you to go into the Arlington Heights, IL office as needed.

Job Description

Roles/Responsibilities

• Work with the team to help solve business problems
• Write high quality distributed system software
• Work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components.
• Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices
• Participate in software design reviews, you conduct peer code reviews, and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 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, Azure or GCP
• 3+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, leading an engineering team, and / or mentorship.
• Deep knowledge of Object Oriented Principles using Java Program Language
• Proficient with Java/J2EE, Spring Core, SpringBoot, JPA (e.g. Hibernate)
• Strong experience with SQL; in creating Data Models, Store Procedures, Views, Functions, and DB Scripts using relational database, preferably MS SQL Server
• Proficient in using Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration and Data)

Desired Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience including 3+ experience with big data systems, analytics, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture.
• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Experience with design/architecting large-scale distributed systems preferably using AWS technologies.
• Strong Experience in building reactive systems using Spring Cloud and WebFlux.
• Experience in using data storage systems like Deltalake.
• Thorough understanding/working knowledge of CI/CD systems using Jenkins and integration with source control systems like github/gitlab
• Experience using industry standard messaging systems like Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Strong experience using NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience using spark and spark SQL.
• 2+ years 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 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 building, tracking, and communicating plans within Agile processes.
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills and aptitude to learn new technologies and methodologies.

Eligibility Requirements

• GE HealthCare may choose to sponsor visas as business needs dictate.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a significant value on work-life balance. Having a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We don’t focus on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We maintain diverse engineering, and leadership perspectives and backgrounds across technology and beyond. Our employees are excited to share their experiences and mentor more junior engineers. Team members are highly encouraged to set up mentorship relationships with seasoned engineers, not only in our team, but also across the broader GE Healthcare population.

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.