Specialist Software Engineer

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Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying complex software applications, and mentoring junior developers. You will work closely with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Building and integrating information systems to meet the company’s needs.

• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.

• Resolving technical problems as they arise.

• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.

• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.

• Informing various collaborators about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.

• Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.

• Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code

• Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment. Manage software delivery scope, risk, and timeline

• Participate 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 alignment 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

• Work closely with product team, business team, and other key partners.

Win

What we expect of you

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of Computer Science and/or Engineering experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of Computer Science and/or Engineering experience OR

• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of Computer Science and/or Engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in UI/UX, React /Redux/Typescript/JavaScript

• Experienced with API integration, serverless, microservices architecture.

• Experienced with Fast Pythons API

• Experience with design patterns, data structures, test-driven development

• Experienced with AWS /Azure Platform, Building and deploying the code

• Experience in Postgres SQL /Mongo DB SQL database, vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS

• Experience with Web site development, understand of web site localization processes, which involve adapting content to fit cultural and linguistic contexts.

• Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline

• Experience in Agile software development methodologies

• Experience in API and End to End testing as part of Test Driven Development

• 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.

• Proficient in programming language React Framework Redux, RESTful API Development, Swagger / OpenAPI, TypeScript, Fast Python, Java Script, SQL/NoSQL, Databricks/RDS, Data engineering

Good to Have Skills

• Willingness to work on AI Applications

• Experience with popular large language models

• Experience with Langchain or llama Index framework for language models

• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning

• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work optimally with global, remote teams.

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities optimally.

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

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Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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 an accommodation.