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Amgen Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack in Hyderabad, India
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.
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications and solutions that meet business needs and ensuring the availability and performance of critical systems and applications. This role involves working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create high-quality, scalable software solutions and automating operations, monitoring system health, and responding to incidents to minimize downtime.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Lead delivery of overall product and product features from concept to end of life management of the product team comprising of technical engineers, product owners and data scientists to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release
Drives excellence and quality for the respective product releases, collaborating with Partner teams.
Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment
Manage software delivery scope, risk, and timeline
Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers
Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using cloud technology
Develop innovative solution using generative AI technologies
Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency to standard processes
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
Work closely with product team, business team, and other partners
Design, develop, and implement applications and modules, including custom reports, interfaces, and enhancements
Analyze and understand the functional and technical requirements of applications, solutions and systems and translate them into software architecture and design specifications
Develop and implement unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies to ensure the quality of the software
Identify and resolve software bugs and performance issues
Work closely with multi-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to deliver high-quality software on time
Maintain detailed documentation of software designs, code, and development processes
Customize modules to meet specific business requirements
Work on integrating with other systems and platforms to ensure seamless data flow and functionality
Provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications, ensuring that they operate smoothly and efficiently
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR
Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR
Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR
Diploma and 14 to 18 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Functional Skills:
Must-Have Skills (Not more than 3 to 4):
Hands on experience with various cloud services, understand pros and cons of various cloud service in well architected cloud design principles
Hands on experience with Full Stack software development including REST APIs and data pipelines. Proficient in programming language Python(preferred) and SQL/NoSQL.
Experience in microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms.
Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, React framework, HTML5, CSS, and NPM.
Committed to delivering top-tier quality in product development and support.
Good-to-Have Skills:
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 (please mention if the certification is preferred or mandatory for the role):
AWS Developer certification (preferred)
Any SAFe Agile certification (preferred)
Soft Skills:
Excellent analytical and solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
High degree of initiative and self-motivation
Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
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.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.
Apply now
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