Principal Agile Software Engineer

Job Description

Company Overview

Nuance is the pioneer and leader in conversational artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. We deliver solutions that understand, analyze, and respond to people, amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and improve security. With decades of both domain and AI expertise, we work with thousands of organizations across a wide range of industries.

Join our team! At Nuance, we are constantly reinventing how people connect with technology and with each other. Our AI-powered solutions empower organizations to transform “business as usual.” For decades, the world’s leading financial, healthcare, telecommunications, retailers, and government organizations have trusted Nuance to bring them award-winning solutions that deliver more meaningful outcomes and empower a smarter, more connected world. From clinical speech recognition technologies that free physicians to spend more time caring for patients to real-time intelligence that powers billions of customer interactions, we’re deeply committed to helping organizations push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Job Summary

Summary:

The position holder will work as part of an agile development team on “full stack”-development activities for the Dragon Medical Server Cloud Platform with an exciting mixture of technologies. The position requires the experience of a senior agile software development engineer to enhance the effectiveness of a motivated agile team.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• Actively participate as a scrum team member in all phases of the development process.
• Modelling, programming, testing, test-automation, continuous integration and contribution to software release activities for the Dragon Medical Server Cloud Platform.
• Design, implement and execute unit tests for code modules or components to ensure high quality code releases.
• Perform peer design and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application defects.
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment.
• Contribution to requirements engineering and top-level design.
• Produce high quality, scalable enterprise software.
• Participate in functional and technical reviews/sprint reviews.
• Effectively work with multiple stakeholders and teams located in different geographical locations
• Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes that you are responsible for securing.

Knowledge, skills and qualifications

Education: Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or related field. Master degree is a plus.

Minimum years of work experience: 8

Required skills:

• Programming languages: .net languages, C#, Microsoft Operating systems & technologies, Azure Cloud know-how
• Experience with agile development methodology (Scrum, TDD)
• Experience with development of client and server-side enterprise class applications.
• Excellent English communication skills (written, oral, listening).
• Excellent technical analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Has a reasonable balance between getting the job done vs technical debt.
• Enjoys producing top quality code in a fast moving environment.
• Enjoys working in a team; willingness to put the needs of the team over their own.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with continuous software integration and deployment.
• Experience with product development for the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Experience with Git.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, MS VSTS (Azure DevOps) Bamboo and other Atlassian tools.
• Experience with development of Healthcare Information technology applications.
• Familiarity with enterprise-level models of agile development (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Experience with professional product development in combination with speech recognition technologies and/or artificial intelligence.

Additional Information

Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.