Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Sr Associate Software Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions for Research scientists. Additionally, it involves automating operations, monitoring system health, and responding to incidents to minimize downtime.

• Design, develop, and implement applications and modules, including custom reports, interfaces, and enhancements
• Analyze and understand the functional and technical requirements of applications, solutions and systems and translate them into software architecture and design specifications
• Develop and implement unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies to ensure the quality of the software
• Identify and resolve software bugs and performance issues
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to deliver high-quality software on time
• Maintain detailed documentation of software designs, code, and development processes.
• Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code
• Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using cloud technology
• Develop innovative solution using generative AI technologies

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The ideal candidate possesses experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, strong technical skills, and full stack software engineering experience (spanning SQL, back-end, front-end web technologies, automated testing).

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with 1 - 3 years of experience in Computer Science, IT, Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics or related field OR
• Bachelor’s degree with 4 - 6 years of experience in Computer Science, IT, Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics or related field OR
• Diploma with 7 - 9 years of experience in Computer Science, IT, Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficient in R
• Proficient in a General Purpose High Level Languages (e.g. Python, Java, C#.NET)
• Proficient in SQL (e.g. Oracle, PostGres, Databricks)
• Experience with event-based architecture (e.g. Mulesoft, AWS EventBridge, AWS Kinesis, Kafka)

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, mainly Agile and Scrum
• Hands-on experience with Full Stack software development
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g AWS) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Professional Certifications :

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner preferred

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.