Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Summary

Vantive has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease. This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the design, development and support of Vantive’s Cloud based software that is related to our connected medicine strategy.

The Cloud based software will support connectivity of medical devices (Internet-of-Things “IoT”) and mobile devices in the home and in clinics. The Cloud based software will support management of medical treatments at home/clinics and also enable management of the supply chain related to various medical treatments. The Cloud based software will also have an analytics component that will enable improved clinical outcomes and enable Vantive to develop better strategy based on deep insights.

You will be responsible for developing products that customers love and also provide creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing leadership within assigned team to ensure key metrics for projects and/or sprints are met.
• Develops a solid architecture that balances requirements from multiple stakeholders including marketing/product owner, program management, operations, quality assurance and service.
• Must ensure that architecture allows meeting time-to-market, exceeding quality targets, quick diagnosis of problems in the field, quick diagnosis of issues during product development and requirements evolution (scalable/extensible).
• Responsible for creating design artifacts based on requirements/use-cases and software architecture.
• Responsible for implementing modules/units, performing peer code review, performing unit testing, subsystem testing and participating/leading various system integration activities.
• Leads creation of software requirements based on understanding of customer needs and hosts JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions.
• Reviews and supports creation of defect-free requirements/use cases.
• Responsible for creating UI design based on current best practices for web-based and mobile customer-facing applications.
• Provides design/technical specifications to external design partners.
• Responsible for rapid prototyping of highly innovative concepts for concept/feasibility testing.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Required Skills

• Highly process oriented.
• Proficiency in software development life cycle methodologies including: Agile Iterative V-Model
• Medical device software development knowledge preferred.
• Familiarity with: IEC 62304 ISO 14971
• Must have participated in several successful product introductions into the marketplace with measurable business impact.

Technical Expertise

Analysis & Design

• Object Oriented Architecture
• Design Patterns
• UML

Server Technologies

• Java
• J2EE
• Spring Framework
• Spring Boot

Client Technologies

• HTML5
• JavaScript
• jQuery

Enterprise Integration

• SOA
• SOAP
• REST
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems

Middleware

• Apache Tomcat
• A…