Technical Engineering Manager Java

Job description

The Position

Diabetes is a pesky monster — and that’s putting it mildly. If you’re serious about helping us face it head-on, come join us!

Most of our customers live with insulin-dependent diabetes. Everyday life with diabetes is often tedious and exhausting – and that’s exactly what motivates our work at Roche. Always guided by our principle of “Doing now what patients need next” we develop award-winning apps, integrate medical devices into our products, and work with health insurance companies and industry partners to make life with diabetes better. For a quick look at what we do, check out Roche code4life. 

Guided by this vision of enabling people to take control of diabetes management, we developed a  Predictive Platform to tailor and personalize diabetes management. This solution can collect and combine therapy-relevant data to ease the daily management of diabetes using machine learning.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join us in leading and growing our Predictive Platform. As engineering at Roche Diabetes Care continues to grow, there is growing demand for efficient and scalable solutions that improve the developer experience and operational effectiveness of all our teams and systems.

Essential skills for your mission:

• Hands-on software design, development, test, build, and deployment experience using technologies like  NodeJS and Python, Lambda, PostgreSQL (AWS RDS), Redis (AWS ElastiCache), EKS (for the services)

• Experience in Agile Software Delivery and Operations Management and people management

• At least 3 years of experience in leading teams in a global environment

Your upcoming mission:

You will not only make innovative software but also innovate on software-making.

• Drive the vision and strategy for our backend platform and AI training pipeline solutions

• Hire and grow a team of exceptional engineers

• Empower, challenge, and coach a team of engineers to grow their impact as individual technical leaders by providing them with context and continuous feedback

• Collaborate closely with all teams to deliver cohesive solutions

• Effectively prioritize and manage our engineering roadmaps aligned with our product roadmap

• Lead technical design using solid technical principles and patterns, clean code, and future-proof architectures

• You will drive software excellence in your group; measuring, protecting, and improving the speed, predictability, quality, and flexibility of software engineering

What Sets You Apart:

• Great written and verbal communication 

• A self-motivated exceptional people leader with experience building and leading high-performance teams

• Proactively give and receive feedback with a growth mindset

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; adept at active listening

• Experience working with and operating production cloud infrastructure systems at large scale

Bonus skills:

•  Experience in software development within a regulated environment (IEC 60601, ISO 62304, ISO 82304, EN ISO 13485:2016 and Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745, FDA Guidelines etc.)

• Knowledge of the diabetes industry or other comparable health industries

• Previous experience in developing Software as a Medical Device 

Here's what you can expect from us:

• Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products 

• An innovative agile working environment allowing for collaboration with really smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams 

• We welcome technical evangelists. So if you are interested in any thought leadership contributions (blogs, conferences) within the realm of the organization, we are happy to support you.

You will learn about the wide range of technologies we employ, from native mobile development to infrastructure-as-code in our cloud environment, gaining a rich understanding of the specific requirements of medical software, be it security, medical risk management, safe and resilient programming, or certifications and audits. You will have direct contact with our users, learning about their daily struggles living with diabetes, as well as customers and partners, understanding the unique needs and mechanics of healthcare systems around the world. 

Interested? Great. We’d like to hear from you! Just click that “Apply Now” button and send us your CV… and anything else that you think might impress us. 

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.