Job Summary:
Exact Sciences is dedicated to changing how the world prevents, detects, and guides treatment for cancer. The Principal Software Engineer will serve as a technical authority within the IT Software Engineering team, focusing on Digital Engineering and Integrations, and will be responsible for shaping architecture decisions and driving meaningful change across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Apply expert knowledge, skills, and practices to diverse programs and complex initiatives demonstrating creativity and mastery of specialized techniques, processes, procedures. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and diagnose issues of high complexity for major software platforms.
• Provide guidance to engineers and technical expertise and coaching to product team.
• Design lasting platforms in collaboration with product teams on large scale business or technology project(s).
• Drive the quality of platforms and organizational practices that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach.
• Contribute, interpret, and communicate enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies, taking into account company dynamics.
• Build successful internal partnerships with IT leadership, peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers. Manage vendor and external partnerships.
• Work on projects of high complexity with multiple business units, ongoing acquisition integration activity, or large cross-functional program implementations.
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria that affect schedules, operations, and functional activities.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 12 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• Expert in 1 or more object-oriented programming languages.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework).
• Designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).
• Agile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
• Programming languages such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Google Web Toolkit.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Preferred:
• Demonstrated experience assessing and designing systems for international scale, including data residency, localization, latency, and regulatory variance across multiple regions.
• Experience defining and championing non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as performance, scalability, availability, observability, and security as first-class engineering concerns across multiple teams.
• Experience leading or contributing to team design and domain ownership efforts, including service decomposition and establishing clear boundaries in complex enterprise environments.
• Expertise with integration architecture patterns including HL7, FHIR, middleware technologies, and event-driven platforms such as Kafka.
• Familiarity with UX design systems and the engineering practices that support consistent, scalable user experiences in a product-led organization.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences or other internationally regulated industries.
Company:
Exact Sciences offers a portfolio of cancer screening and diagnostic tests that span from early detection to treatment monitoring. It is a sub-organization of Abbott. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Madison, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.