Best Buy | Senior Software Engineer, edinburgh

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Best Buy | Senior Software Engineer, EdinburghClient:

Best Buy

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

6

Posted:

21.01.2025

Expiry Date:

07.03.2025

Job Description:

Job Description:As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a Product Engineering team. At Best Buy Health, we strive to deliver end-to-end customer and patient outcomes vs. narrow features. They take care to evaluate where they can further the long-term technical vision whilst having a bias towards action and customer/product value.
This role is remote eligible, which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy Health location.
What you’ll do:

  • You will work in one of our software engineering teams, building out our platform and product for use by patients and healthcare professionals.
  • You will build scalable, well-tested applications and microservices.
  • You will collaborate closely with other disciplines, including biomedical engineering, data science, electronics engineering, and product science.
  • You will operate across the stack but will have significant back-end or data engineering experience.
  • You will contribute to technical design and code reviews.
  • You will help provide 24/7 support for the product, resolving live issues when needed.
  • You will be responsible for a product engineering team delivering key objectives that enable the product to scale, directly improving healthcare provision across the world.
  • You will work closely with Product Management and ensure the team is accountable for the outcomes delivered. You will have a firm grasp on why the team is building functionality, for whom, and the value it will deliver.
  • You will also contribute to that product vision and strategy and likely have strong natural motivation to do so.
  • You will be aware of the impact of your team's work on other areas of the organization, including longer-term architectural viability of solutions, as well as opportunities for wider cooperation.


Basic qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
  • 3 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience.


Preferred qualifications:

  • You have significant previous experience as a Software Engineer.
  • You have a good knowledge of at least one modern programming language.
  • You have experience writing tests and testable code.
  • You are flexible and can learn on the job quickly.
  • You enjoy solving problems and making a difference.
  • You have experience delivering across managed cloud platforms such as AWS.
  • You can pragmatically balance quality with a fast-paced schedule.
  • You are a good team player, ready to help, debate, compromise, and work together.
  • You are comfortable working, prototyping, and delivering incrementally, adapting based on customer needs and technical difficulties, always with the user in mind.
  • You have an eye for detail and you always look at the big picture.
  • You are comfortable reviewing, releasing, deploying, and troubleshooting your and other people's code.
  • Experience in the healthcare industry or have worked with Ionic hybrid apps.
  • Exposure to working with highly scalable and distributed systems.


What’s in it for you:

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:

  • Competitive pay
  • Physical and mental well-being support


About us:

Best Buy Health aims to enrich lives through technology and meaningful connections. We do that by focusing on consumer health products that help people live healthier lives, device-based emergency response services for the active aging population, and virtual care offerings that help connect patients to physicians.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

Position Type: Full time. PandoLogic. Keywords: Senior Software Engineer, Location: Edinburgh, SCT - EH1 3EG

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