Principal Software Architect - Nevro Corp.

About Nevro

Nevro (NYSE: NVRO) is a global medical device company headquartered in Redwood City, California. We are focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 patients globally.  

Nevro’s comprehensive HFX™ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a Senza SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic trunk and limb pain and painful diabetic neuropathy.  Senza®, Senza II®, Senza Omnia™, and Senza HFX iQ™ are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary 10 kHz Therapy. HFX iQ, Nevro’s latest innovation, is the first and only SCS System that uses Artificial Intelligence to optimize and maintain pain relief using each patient's response1.Nevro’s unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach™ throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud™ insights for enhanced patient and practice management. 

Nevro also recently added a minimally invasive treatment option for patients suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint ("SI joint") pain and now provides the most comprehensive portfolio of products in the SI joint fusion space, designed to meet the preferences of physicians and varying patient needs in order to improve outcomes and quality of life for patients.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major features and architectural enhancements for the Nevro R&D Care Team Applications group, primarily for web services and web applications using Microsoft .Net Core, React, Terraform, and other technologies. Activities include:
• • Working with the cross-functional teams to define software requirements.
  • Designing data models, data flows, software components, and (as needed to extend existing implementations) cloud infrastructure architecture.
  • Implementation of software and cloud infrastructure in AWS, Confluent Cloud, and others.
  • Ensuring features are testable using automated test tooling.
  • Implementing unit testing and/or performing manual testing for features
• Develop software in a regulated environment in accordance with internal operating procedures and external standards and regulations.
• Proactively identify areas of developmental risk for projects or features and communicate these to management accordingly.
• Work closely with other product development teams: ensure that their products will interface as required with the Care Team Application’s products and overall system requirements are met.
• Work in accordance with quality system procedures and actively enforce its objectives.
• Contribute to the intellectual property base of the Company via active communication of new concepts to Management.
• Lead continuous improvement of our products, platforms, and practices:
  • Define and document software development best practices and ensure adherence through code reviews and training sessions as needed.
  • Enhance our SDLC to reduce toil or improve product quality.
  •  Continuously contribute to platform reliability, security, monitoring, logging.

Role Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, or similar degree.
• A minimum of 8+ years’ experience designing, architecting, and implementing web services and/or web applications

Skills and Knowledge

• The candidate should be and expert in the Microsoft.Net stack for web service implementations.
• The candidate should have extensive knowledge of production website operational concerns.
• The candidate should have a strong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous messaging patterns in a web services or big data context.
• It is highly preferred that this candidate has experience in implantable medical device development.
• Significantly self-directed. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
• Functional familiarity with the FDA Submission process, ISO Requirements and QSR requirements is also preferred.
• Experience related to integrations into IoT or big data systems is preferable.

Target Pay Range

Base Salary range is $172,845 to $237,662. The final starting salary offer to the successful candidate will be determined by evaluating several factors, such as education, experience, knowledge, skills, internal equity, alignment with market data, and geography. *Nevro is a multi-state employer, so the target pay range may increase or decrease depending on the city/state.

Full-time Nevro team members enjoy a full suite of additional benefits such as market-leading medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k matching, ample vacation time, pre-tax savings perks, tuition reimbursement, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), short and/or long-term incentive opportunities, recognition awards, volunteer time off, and several employee resource groups that focus on supporting our Wellness, Leadership Development, and Diversity and Inclusion.

EEO Statement

Nevro offers equal employment opportunity, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, marital or family status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression (including religious dress and grooming practices), gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), physical or mental condition, protected veteran status, disability, age or other characteristics protected by laws.