Principal Software Engineer 6 months contract
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity real-time guidance and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission we are developing compact high-performance embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity.
Working closely with other teams across Medtronic we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If youre interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale this could be the place for you.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Lead the end-to-end technical design for complex high-ambiguity projects.
- Partner with system engineers to transform broad goals into actionable technical requirements.
- Conduct architectural reviews identify risks and define mitigation strategies.
- Provide technical mentorship to team members.
- Promote high engineering standards - ensuring clarity scalability and maintainability in all designs.
- Collaborate across disciplines to align technical direction with business objectives.
- Write code regularly - building prototypes implementing critical features and contributing to the codebase while providing architectural guidance.
- Create exceptional technical documentation - capturing architectural decisions design rationale and system context with the clarity and depth needed for future teams to own extend and troubleshoot the system independently.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- 8 years of backend or systems engineering experience with strong Python proficiency.
- Experience designing building and operating distributed systems in production with deep understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance scalability and reliability.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) databases APIs and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong focus on quality assurance including testing strategies code review practices and system reliability.
- Proven ability to take full ownership of complex technical projects from design through production including proactively identifying risks driving solutions and taking accountability for outcomes.
- Experience leading technical initiatives across cross-functional teams with strong ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate productive discussions with both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated mentorship and collaborative leadership skills creating environments where team members feel safe to raise concerns learn from mistakes and grow their capabilities.
- Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity including making progress with incomplete information breaking down complex problems and adapting approach as requirements evolve.
- Excellent documentation skills and experience with knowledge transfer for project handovers
- Must be willing to commute to London 2 to 3 days per week.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more
