Fresenius Medical Care

Principal Software Engineer

Waltham, MA, USA Full time

Position Summary:  

The candidate will participate in product development activities related to the design, development, testing, and/or support of web-based software for NxStage Medical’s products.

Specific Duties: 

  • Design, develop, code and unit test software following internal design control SOPs
  • Apply state-of-the-art methods in creating software for NxStage products; develop improvements to existing designs.
  • Apply the principles of software design, software life cycle, and software maintainability, as applicable.
  • Debugging new designs and developing reliability improvements to existing & new design
  • Participate in multidisciplinary teams, including pairing with other engineers to solve complex problems.
  • Provide technical support for product engineering, design development, integration, test and evaluation
  • Follow Design Control SOPs for projects and programs, including following the software development lifecycle.
  • Work with Quality Assurance to meet the requirements of our internal Quality System, including specific requirements of GMPs, FDA QSR, relevant IEC standards, and ISO 9001.
  • Assist in Risk Analysis including, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Operator Misuse Analysis (OMA), and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities to ensure process shortcomings are identified and appropriately addressed
  • Assist in developing reports and other data mining activities.
  • Assist in Integrating NxStage Medical’s products with customer systems.
  • Assist with researching and resolving software related customer complaints.
  • Ensure all systems and data are protected according to relevant SOPs.

Education & Qualification: 

  • BS in Computer Science with a focus on software design and programming.
  • 10+ years of experience in software product engineering and development.

Requirements: 

  • Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Experience in microservices design and implementation
  • Experience in OOD/OOP and multi-tiered business logic implementation.
  • Experience in building Restful API application using MS Azure technologies
  • C#, .Net Core, and SQL Language Skills.
  • Experience in Web GUI design
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with Microsoft Development Tools.
  • Conduct code reviews, create and maintain requirements and specification documents
  • Create and execute unit tests as part of software validation efforts
  • Strong knowledge of project lifecycles, software development environments, and source control techniques.

Desirable:

  • Familiar with Azure Cloud Technologies such DevOps, Kubernetes, Service Bus, CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiar with Identity management technologies (e.g. Entra ID) and distributed cache (e.g. Redis)
  • Experience working in a highly regulated industry, medical device preferred.
  • Experience and knowledge of cybersecurity methodologies and testing
  • Experience with automated testing.
  • Knowledge of Networks, Network infrastructure and Network protocols

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EOE, disability/veterans