Senior Software Fullstack Engineer

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Position Summary

The Senior Full Stack Software Developer will be a key engineering contributor within Worldwide Patient Safety IT, as part of the Drug Development IT organization, supporting critical Risk Minimization systems and related platforms. This role will design, build, and enhance full‑stack applications that enable risk minimization capabilities primarily for IMiDs and CELMoDs line of drugs.

The senior software developer will work across modern cloud native architectures such as AWS, microservices, BPM platforms, containerized workloads and collaborate closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Technical Leads, Test Lead, IT Validation team, IT Quality Assurance team, and Global Risk Management stakeholders. The position requires strong technical acumen, end‑to‑end ownership, and the ability to operate in a highly regulated life‑sciences environment.

Desired Candidate Characteristics: 

• Have a strong commitment to a career in technology with a passion for healthcare. 

• Ability to understand the needs of the business and commitment to deliver the best user experience and adoption. 

• Able to collaborate across multiple teams.  

• Demonstrated leadership experience.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Innovative and inquisitive nature to ask questions, offer bold ideas and challenge the status quo.

• Agility to learn new tools and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Patient Safety Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Architects located globally (New Jersey, Hyderabad etc.) to understand requirements and convert them into technical solutions.

• Design, develop and deliver scalable, secure, cloud‑based solutions using Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS, PostgreSQL and associated full‑stack frameworks.

• Build microservices, REST APIs, UI components, integrations, and reusable libraries.

• Implement business workflows leveraging technologies such as Camunda BPM or equivalent while aligned with the existing Risk Minimization platforms.

• Drive high‑quality coding practices, SDLC documentation, CICD pipelines, and deployment automation. Manage security vulnerabilities and implement secure coding best practices.

• Ensure compliance with SDLC, validation, audit requirements, and data integrity standards expected in highly regulated environment.

• Conduct root-cause analysis, troubleshoot complex issues, and support L2/L3 operation teams as needed.

• Provide technical guidance to junior developers, ensuring best practices and engineering discipline.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on full stack development experience.

• Strong expertise in:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, REST API development

• Frontend: ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

• Database: PostgreSQL or MySQL or Oracle; familiarity with NoSQL preferred

• Cloud: AWS (Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, ECS, S3, IAM)

• CI/CD: Jenkins or GitHub Action or Bitbucket pipelines etc.

• BPM platforms: Camunda or Bonitasoft or PEGA or similar platform experience

• Experience with microservices, event driven design, containerization (Docker), and modern architectural patterns.

• Experience with REMS applications/products in the Engineering and Operations domain would be highly desirable and considered an advantage.

• Practical experience using AI‑assisted engineering tools (e.g., code copilots) to accelerate development, test generation, refactoring, and documentation, with a disciplined approach to code quality and security.

• Prompting and evaluating LLM outputs for engineering tasks (e.g., creating unit tests, converting requirements to acceptance criteria, generating API stubs) and grounding outputs against source specs.

• Familiarity with ML/AI concepts relevant to application development such as OCR/NLP basics, model/service integration patterns (REST/SDK), & responsible AI considerations (ex: data privacy).

• Exposure to Risk Evaluation & Mitigation Strategy (REMS) or pharmacovigilance or patient safety, or regulated life‑sciences environment is an advantage.

• Foundational understanding of GxP processes, compliance and validation processes is preferred.

• Experience in Agile methodologies and project management tools, such as JIRA.

• Strong problem‑solving, analytical thinking, and debugging abilities.

• Ability to work in global Agile teams with distributed stakeholders, with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Proactive communication, ownership mindset, and attention to detail.

• Possess a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a closely related technical field.

• Technical Certifications in AWS, Agile or BPM tools are advantageous.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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