Senior Engineer, Full Stack Engineer

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Position Summary 

At BMS, digital innovation and Information Technology are central to our vision of transforming patients’ lives through science. To accelerate our ability to serve patients around the world, we must unleash the power of technology.  We are committed to being at the forefront of transforming the way medicine is made and delivered by harnessing the power of computer and data science, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to promote scientific discovery, faster decision making, and enhanced patient care.  We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of cloud-native, scalable solutions on AWS.

This role combines strong technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring ownership of architecture, development standards, delivery execution, and mentoring of engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building distributed systems, microservices, serverless applications, APIs, and cloud-native integrations while coordinating with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead backend architecture, solution design, and development activities for enterprise-scale applications.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, security standards, and design patterns.
• Drive technical decisions and guide development teams through architecture reviews and design discussions.
• Mentor and coach mid-level engineers.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to quality and performance standards.

• • Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications using AWS services.
  • Build scalable RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
  • Develop backend services using Python, Node.js, or Java.
  • Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
  • Optimize applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Design and implement solutions leveraging:
  • AWS Lambda ,
  • API Gateway ,
  • S3, DynamoDB,
  • RDS/Aurora
  • SQS/SNS
  • EventBridge,
  • ECS/Fargate,
  • Step ,Functions
  • Cloud Watch,
  • Secrets Manager,
  • IAM
• Drive serverless and container-based architecture adoption where appropriate.
• Partner with DevSecOps teams to establish CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.

• Design integration patterns using APIs, event-driven mechanisms, and middleware solutions.
• Build and optimize integrations across enterprise applications and external platforms.
• Support data persistence, data governance, monitoring, and operational excellence.

• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Docker
• Kubernetes (preferred)
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins
• SonarQube

• Establish observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Drive automation of operational tasks and platform improvements.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of AWS cloud development experience.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or
• Experience delivering enterprise applications in Agile environments as well as experience working on major development initiatives.

Desirable Experience: 

• • Prior experience in life sciences, healthcare, or related industry. 
  • Experience and familiarity with the commercial data within the Pharma industry 
  • Have a strong commitment to a career in technology with a passion for healthcare   
  • Experience using any of industry standard Agile tooling suites (e.g., Jira), and working knowledge in requirement grooming sessions, Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective, tasks creation, and collaborating with stakeholders.  
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with a broad matrix team and ability to influence others and achieve results.  
•  Why You Should Apply Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion, and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues. Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Our company is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request an accommodation prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, or any part of the recruitment process direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement. 

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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