West Pharma Principal Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taichung 

742762768

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical leadership

• Work with the Director of Software Engineering to lead the delivery of complex digital products in a regulated space
• Architect performant and reliable data intensive systems from prototypes to production
• Lead technology decision with a long-term mindset
• Take ownership of projects planning and deliverable
• Design new features to match stakeholders’ requirements in collaboration with PM role
• Ensure projects source code quality, documentation, and maintainability
• Drive evolution of SDLC to improve quality and efficiency
• Act as single-point-of-contact for project manager and stakeholders
  

Team leadership

• Coordinate teamwork in a structured and transparent manner
• Ensure team and progress visibility to management and stakeholders
• Ensure efficient collaboration in the team to drive efficiency
• Ensure durable industry good practices know-how in the team
• Evangelize project and team by driving collaboration with other local and overseas teams
• Coach members to support their developments and enable them to perform to their best
• Ensure company policies are known and followed by the team (Manager only)
• Manage team members performance (Manager only)

Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent preferred
• 10+ years of related work experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good ability to read/write/speak/listen in English
• Ability to produce clear documentation
• Ability to follow new technologies trends and identify potential interest
• Solid development experience with various programing languages & databases
• Extended programing experience in Nodejs, Go and Erlang/Elixir
• Experience in building distributed and data intensive systems
• Experience with device connectivity & protocols (HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT)
• Experience with communication encryption preferred (TLS, PKI, Digital Signature)
• Experience with firmware development a plus
• Experience in Cloud services CICD & hosting
• Experience in technical and team leadership
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior member
• Ability to manage the work of a team in a fast-paced and complex environment with a self-motivated work ethic; use sound judgment with an ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency
• Ability to work in a virtual environment in a global organization and to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment in making decisions and resolving complex problems related to general and technical aspects of the job
• Scrum master or project manager experience a plus
• Able to comply with the company’s safety and quality policies at all times

Competencies/Authorities

• Management of the IoT Platform Software Development team

Physical and Travel Requirements

• Less than 10% travel, including international and within Asia Pacific
• on-call work required