Principal Engineer, SW

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

The research we do and the products we develop improve outcomes for patients around the world. As a Principal Engineer, SW - Frontend Software Developer at Baxter, your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. It's challenging work—and you're not on your own. Our teams collaborate cross-functionally and lead by influence. Whether guiding a team through a project or managing direct reports, our research and development team is responsible for influencing others to achieve results.

Our colleagues within our R&D organization desire to work on products that make a meaningful difference in others' lives. We are motivated by the power of teamwork and are natural leaders who are skilled at influencing others.

When you join Baxter in this role, you'll use your analytical approach to identify risks and opportunities for innovation quickly. Agile and willing to take action, you stay calm under pressure.

Your Team

While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the R&D teams play a meaningful role in our ability to save and sustain lives. Scientists and engineers in R&D work together to develop, test, and launch products that improve patient care.

Do you want to use your Frontend Development skills to make a difference in the world of Cardiology? Bardy Diagnostics is an exciting, fast growing organization within Baxter with unique and compelling products looking for the right Senior Frontend Software Developer to help us achieve our mission.

Join a multi-skilled, dedicated, and talented team developing state-of-the-art wearable cardiac arrhythmia monitors and associated cloud-based software. The right person is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UX design wireframes to actual code that will enhance usability and performance. You will work with UX designers and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works. Your expertise in software development best practices and keen sense for clean UI design will help us be more productive and efficient product UI development cycles.

What you'll be doing

• Implement compelling & responsive user-interfaces for our cloud-based, desktop and mobile applications.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders on requirements and design.
• Work together with development team members to bring to market quality, testable applications.
• Design and code UI consistent with up-to-date design patterns meeting today’s security and regulatory standards.
• Deliver high quality and timely results to meet the business needs.

What you'll bring

• Overall 12+ years of experience in software development for Web, Desktop, Mobile App.
• 5+ years as a frontend web developer in a product development environment.
• Experience executing customer facing, cloud-based software projects including defining, planning, and executing to predictable schedules and required quality.
• Expertise in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js), Gatsby JS, HTML, CSS, TypeScript and other web UI technologies.
• Demonstrable experience with translating visual and interactive designs from tools such as Sketch and Zeplin, Axure or other design frameworks into a customer focused frontend implementation.
• Ability to collaborate with designers and product stakeholders in iterative development.
• Success in bringing timely, highly usable, and robust products to market that maximize efficiency and effectiveness of clinical decision making and delight end users.
• Familiarity configuration management & issue tracking.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Medical device or other regulated application space experience is preferred.

Reasonable Accommodations

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