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The PositionRoche utilizes a unified Design System to streamline the user interfaces of its digital products and deliver a consistent, harmonized user experience for our customers. The One Design System encompasses all web and mobile applications developed at Roche.
The Opportunity
The Principal Software Engineer for Mobile will play a critical role on the team, leveraging deep expertise in design principles and best practices to implement cutting-edge user interfaces for mobile applications. You’ll work hands-on within a scrum team and act as a technical leader and mentor across scrum teams.
Product related
Contribute the technical evolution, design, building and testing of the Design system for mobile devices.
Work with clients (project leaders, architects, designers and front-end developers) to establish collaboration, understand their design, technical and functional needs and solve their doubts.
Champion the adoption of the Design system across Roche together with the client and the Usability Engineers
Document Mobile Components offering to support the mobile development community in the adoption, implementation, testing and maintenance.
Define example usage and demo of the delivered components, ensuring that client needs are covered on these examples (controlled and uncontrolled state management, unit testing and integration testing)
Create and conduct workshops for client mobile developers on the usage of the UI Kit
Translate business requirements into technical and functional requirements, helping business in the discovery, ideation and scoping of UI solutions
Collaborate closely with the UX team, translating their designs into technical and functional requirements, proposing improvements, and providing: solutions to multiple branding support, components and global patterns that work for multiple different UI interfaces
Extend your impact to other mobile developments in the company
Supplier related
Define technical and functional specifications for implementation by the supplier
Provide guidance to the supplier for any technical, architecture, infrastructure or company related topics
Review, accept and validate technically the supplier’s deliverables
Capability related
Mentor software engineers in mobile development technical matters
Create and execute plan to bootstrap a mobile community within Roche
Who you are
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline with 10+ years of experience or master’s degree in a similar field with 6+ years of experience
Expert-level mobile software engineering experience with a track record of 4+ years designing and implementing User Interfaces for native mobile applications in either SwiftUI or Jetpack compose.
A knack for creating readable, well-crafted, maintainable code and documentation
Quick learner with the ability to understand complex workflows and develop and validate innovative solutions to solve difficult problems
Strong communicator, with the ability to explain complex technical problems to non-technical audiences and the ability to translate customer requirements to technical designs
Experience providing technical leadership for medium to large teams with limited or no guidance from management or senior teammates
Experience mentoring junior developers, collaborating with product managers, UX design leaders, and engineers in an agile development environment
Experience advocating for the domain and influencing the architecture and direction of the product design. Accountable for decision making and seeks guidance as needed
Pro-active communicator with other teams, business stakeholders and other groups in English
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
