Staff Software Engineer

Best Buy
London
8 months ago
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Staff Software Engineer

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Job Description

As a Staff Engineer you will work with the Product Engineering teams that strive to deliver end-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 play a key part in the direction of your product. You will assist management and senior technical leaders across the organization.

You will play a big part in the product roadmap, strategy, and be able to drive priorities for your product

Collaborate and make proposals across teams on their engineering work.

Mentor, coach, and guide engineers within your team

Propose technical implementation that will help support technical architectural changes for performance issues.

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 org, 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 

5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience

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