Principal Engineer

Position Description:

Vocera now a part of Stryker is seeking a Principal Engineer, Analytics cloud application, based in Bangalore. Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and is dedicated to helping healthcare professionals perform their jobs more efficiently while enhancing patient care. Stryker offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives. This position will report to the Senior Manager of R&D.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Design and implement cloud-based applications
• Translate user needs to design inputs/ specifications and produce system/architectural level layouts and platform designs.
• The lead architecture of a complex system and guide design tradeoff decisions.
• Partnering effectively with product owners and key internal stakeholders to ascertain product
• requirements.
• Applying SOLID design principles and design patterns to address specific product needs.
• Practicing good engineering methodologies within an Agile development framework.
• Actively engaging in continuous learning through peer review and professional development opportunities.
• Ensuring product quality by unit test, functional, and system tests in collaboration with automation
• engineers.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive data model designs.
• Led or mentored the technical team in dthe esign and development of components, sub-systems, and/or systems.
• Apply and mentor others on advanced engineering theories, principles, and concepts across various products within the business unit.
• Assess and integrate new technologies and capabilities (prototyping, testing, et.al.) for the organization.
• Generate and review the necessary documents with project teams. (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test).

What you will need:

Competencies:

• Track record of building and delivering solutions based on a solid understanding of customer needs.
• Results-driven, hands-on approach to the full product life cycle from architecture development to product implementation.
• A passion for the end-to-end development of quality software products.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging, communications, and documentation skills.
• Resourceful and able to solve complex problems through adapting technology and a deep understanding of product architecture.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture, with expertise in scalable and resilient systems.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture with expertise in containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.
• Additionally, hands-on experience in optimizing microservices for performance, scalability, and security would be considered a significant asset, further enhancing the candidate's suitability for the role.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education Requirements:
  Bachelor’s degree in software engineering/ computer science or related discipline & 13+ years of work experience.

Technical Skills:

• Strong front-end development experience with frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, and Scala.
• Experience with cloud platforms preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks, version control systems (Git), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong focus on security, performance, and scalability in application design.
• Knowledge of data modeling techniques and schema design for data warehouses.
• Proven expertise in designing and managing large-scale ETL pipelines for enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with data streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka) and real-time communication protocols (e.g., WebSocket).