Core Application Developer

Your Opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – a revolutionary solution designed by our world-class technical team. The Globe System offers strong, unique, and customer-valued advantages over other treatments on the market, and leading physicians are already using it and helping to share our story.

We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe® Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients!

Reporting to the Medical Device Software Safety Security and Therapy Team Lead, we are looking for a dynamic Core Application Developer.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

In collaboration with other application and firmware developers, and risk and systems teams you will develop security, safety and therapy systems for the Globe® Pulsed Field System. Additionally, the successful applicant will participate in projects related to cybersecurity and safety risk controls that affect the entire code base.

• Requirements and design specification
• Investigations of reported anomalies
• Code inspections
• Design, specification, and risk reviews
• TDD/unit testing
• Test platform and integration test development
• Professional skills development
• Education and promotion of secure coding practices

What You Bring To The Team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable.

You Bring To The Team These Characteristics, Plus

• A love of coding, where through your 2 to 5 years of experience you have gained advanced programming skills in any object-oriented language such as C++, Java or C#
• A focus on software engineering where correctness, reliability, performance and maintainability matter.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering
• Proven ability to be a valued contributor in a disciplined software development process
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Well-developed written and verbal technical communication skills
• The willingness and ability to take on additional responsibilities as appropriate

Any experience with one or more of the following would also be helpful:

• Secure coding practices
• Basic engineering such as electronics, signal processing, thermodynamics, control theory
• Software development in the medical device or other regulated industry
• 3D graphics applications using OGL
• Embedded, real-time applications

Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% Retirement contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors, including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.

$87,000 - $110,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

• Our Purpose
• Our People
• Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!

Key skills/competency

• Object-Oriented Programming
• C++, Java, C#
• Software Engineering
• Cybersecurity
• Medical Device Development
• Real-time Systems
• Embedded Systems
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Risk Management
• Analytical Problem Solving