Join BD as a Staff Software Engineer in Irvine, CA, where you will design and build scalable cloud-based software solutions integrating EHR systems. This full-time technical leadership role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience in healthcare and offers a salary range of $129,600.00 - $207,400.00 USD Annual.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master's degree preferred).
7+ years of software engineering experience, including large-scale applications within healthcare.
2+ years of experience deploying and supporting production systems in a public cloud environment like AWS.
Professional development experience using Java, React, and JavaScript.
Experience with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
Skills & Responsibilities
AWS & Cloud Architecture: Architect distributed systems and scalable cloud-based services using AWS and related technologies to ensure reliability and performance.
Healthcare Interoperability: Develop healthcare interoperability solutions utilizing HL7 and FHIR standards to integrate EHR systems.
Full-Stack Development: Design and maintain applications and services using Go, Java, React, and JavaScript alongside RESTful APIs.
Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership, planning and guiding engineering teams through Agile feature development and delivery.
Potential transition routes: People from Senior Software Engineer or Solutions Architect roles may bring strong distributed systems and cloud experience, alongside meeting the required healthcare technology background.
Job description
We are the people who give possibilities purpose
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Job Description
Summary
The Software Technology Solutions Division (STS) is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and support scalable software solutions that integrate electronic health record (EHR) systems with cloud-based applications.
This role requires an experienced technical leader who can work across the full software stack, architect distributed systems, and help guide engineering teams through design, development, deployment, and production support. The Staff Software Engineer will play a key role in ensuring application performance, scalability, reliability, and code quality while collaborating across engineering, product, and other technical teams.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep software engineering experience in healthcare technology, cloud-native development, and healthcare interoperability. They combine strong architecture and coding capabilities with the ability to lead and influence other engineers. Experience building production systems using AWS, Java, React, JavaScript, RESTful APIs, and HL7/FHIR will be particularly valuable, along with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
Participate in all phases of the Agile software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Architect and guide the development of end-to-end distributed systems optimized for performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.
Design, develop, and maintain applications and services using technologies including Go, Java, React, and JavaScript.
Design and integrate RESTful APIs and services supporting healthcare and cloud-based applications.
Develop and support healthcare interoperability solutions utilizing HL7 and FHIR standards.
Design and implement scalable cloud-based services and workflows using AWS and related cloud technologies.
Provide hands-on technical leadership while planning and guiding engineering teams through feature development and delivery.
Partner across engineering and product teams to guide the creation, integration, and consumption of software services.
Apply a customer-centric approach to architecture and software design, balancing user experience, product strategy, technical requirements, and engineering tradeoffs.
Maintain high standards for application architecture, code quality, documentation, testing, debugging, and optimization.
Support production applications with a focus on uptime, operational stability, performance, and continuous improvement.
Communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions clearly across engineering teams and stakeholders.
Minimum Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building large-scale software applications within the healthcare field.
2+ years of experience deploying, running, and supporting production systems in a public cloud environment, such as AWS.
Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to engineers, including planning and executing software deliverables.
Experience designing and building cloud-based services using AWS.
Experience with cloud PaaS persistence technologies, cloud-based services, and orchestration/workflow technologies such as AWS Step Functions or Apache Airflow.
Professional software development experience using Java, React, and JavaScript.
Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs.
Experience with healthcare interoperability standards, particularly HL7 and FHIR.
Strong understanding of software engineering and coding best practices, including maintainable and well-documented code.
Experience with unit and integration testing.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and software optimization skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience developing production software using Go.
Advanced experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems for scalability, reliability, and performance.
Experience working with multiple AWS services and cloud orchestration/workflow technologies.
Knowledge of regulatory, privacy, security, and data-protection requirements relevant to software environments, including HIPAA, SOX, PCI, and data protection requirements.
Experience working in Agile software development environments and contributing to engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
#LI-PRO
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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Primary Work Location
USA CA - Irvine Laguna Canyon
Additional Locations
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At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs.
Benefits may include:
Health & Well-being: Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, wellness resources, mental health support, and disease management programs.
Work-Life Balance & Family Support: Paid time off, company holidays, educational assistance, parental leave, adoption assistance, backup care, caregiving support, employee assistance programs, commuter benefits, pet insurance, legal services, and associate discount programs.
Leave Programs: Bereavement, military, personal, family and medical leave, and jury duty leave.
Additional details regarding benefits and well-being programs can be found in Our Commitment to You.
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