At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

We are looking for a highly motivated and energetic individual to join our Global IT Connected Care team. We drive software application design, development, deployment, and support for internal stakeholders and external users. As Principal IT Developer on the Connected Care team, you will lead application design and guide and participate in the development and maintenance of applications on multiple platforms. You will follow the Agile methodology to develop great applications, facilitate support, and improve development team processes. You will partner with colleagues and other stakeholders including developers, testers, analysts, users, and management to ensure all aspects of software projects are successful.

• Develop web applications using some or all of the following languages, frameworks, or libraries: TypeScript, Node.JS, React, and PostgreSQL.

• Architect, design, develop and modify production and proof-of-concept web applications and micro-services.

• Provide advanced knowledge of development tools and execute with strong decision-making and problem-solving skills

• Develop data intensive apps using PostgreSQL technologies

• Provide patches, fixes, and upgrades to existing systems

• Follow software development lifecycle principles and specific processes used by team

• Work independently to explore and master new technologies and development tools

• Work closely with QA (Quality Assurance) to ensure that our applications are as bug free as possible.

• Execute with strong decision making and problem-solving skills

• Support and plan process improvements for the team

• Contribute to the translation of functional business requirements to technical solutions and articulate these solutions to high-level audiences

• Prepare and obtain approval of system and programming documentation

• Recommend changes in development, maintenance, and system standards

• Provide support for UI/UX guidelines for web application development

• Support the design of Graphical User Interface (GUI) to meet the specific needs of users

• Work closely with functional users to enhance and maintain programs

• Other Duties as requested

Education Required

• Bachelor's degree

Years of Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience with a bachelor’s degree

• 6+ years of IT experience with a master’s degree

Specialized Knowledge or Skills Required

• Experience with networking stack(s)

• Experience with RESTful APIs and Microservices

• Experience integrating 3rd-party SDKs

• Experience connecting to Webservices / data transport (JSON, XML, etc.)

• Experience working on Enterprise web or cloud applications / solutions

• Experience developing web services and working with backend database systems

• Experience with FHIR Standard

• Experience with Application Security

• Experience with crash reporting and triaging issues

Desired Qualification:

• Self-directed / self-motivated / self-starter; not easily blocked by barriers often presented by large corporations and complex projects

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with proven ability to effectively communicate to all management levels

• Experience with AWS (Elastic Container Service, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation)

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)

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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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