Principal Full Stack Developer
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
Additional Location(s):US-CA-Santa Clara; US-CA-Mountain View; US-CA-San Jose; US-CA-Silicon Valley; US-CA-Sunnyvale
Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit- High Performance
At Boston Scientific well give you the opportunity to harness all thats within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools information and training well help you in advancing your skills and career. Here youll be supported in progressing whatever your ambitions.
About the role:
Boston Scientific was recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work in 2026 ranking No. 15 on the Top 100 list reflecting the culture our employees experience every day.
ThePrincipal Full Stack Developerserves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the design and delivery of innovative digital platforms that improve patient outcomes connect medical devices and enhance clinician experiences worldwide.
This role architects and delivers enterprise-grade applications across the full stack from intuitive front-end interfaces to scalable secure back-end systems and cloud-native microservices. The position plays a critical role in advancing high-performing compliant digital health and device software solutions while fostering engineering excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
At Boston Scientific we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our Santa Clara CA office at least three days per week.
Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead and coordinate engineering teams to deliver high-quality scalable full stack solutions aligned to business objectives
- Own the architecture design and delivery of end-to-end software solutions supporting digital health and connected device platforms
- Define and implement cloud-native architectures using AWS Azure and microservices frameworks
- Drive modernization initiatives including cloud migration API-first design and transition to microservices-based architectures
- Establish and enforce technical standards best practices and scalable design patterns across development teams
- Develop and oversee complex applications and APIs using modern technologies such as React TypeScript and Java Spring Boot
- Partner with DevOps and data engineering teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and integrate analytics and AI-driven capabilities
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture cybersecurity and regulatory requirements including HIPAA GDPR and FDA standards
- Collaborate with product management UX and quality teams to deliver user-centered high-performing software solutions
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across planning estimation and full software development life cycle execution
Required qualifications:
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science software engineering or a related field
- Minimum of 8 years experience in software development
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a principal architect or technical leadership role
- Deep expertise in full stack development using and/or Java with strong back-end architecture experience
- Proven experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems in AWS and/or Azure environments
- Proficiency in SQL databases
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of security performance and accessibility best practices
- Experience working in Agile/ Scrum environments
- Proven technical leadership and ability to influence across teams
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in medical device digital health or other regulated environments
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka or Event Hub
- Familiarity with observability practices including logging metrics and tracing
- Experience with performance optimization and application security best practices
- Exposure to AI/ML technologies and data-driven application development
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver well-designed technically sound solutions
Requisition ID:628440
Minimum Salary: $116600
Maximum Salary: $221500
The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) see vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training pertinent education including licensure and certifications among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.
Compensation for non-exempt (hourly) non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g. any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
Compensation for exempt non-sales roles may also include variable compensation i.e. annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years we advance science for life byprovidinga broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular respiratory digestive oncologicalneurologicaland urological diseases and conditions. Learn more atand follow us onLinkedIn.
Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment hiring assignment promotion compensation and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race religion color national origin citizenship sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status age mental or physical disability genetic information or any other protected class.
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