Senior Back-end Software Engineer
Role summary
Stryker's Edge Product Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build secure, scalable, and high-performance backend services for clinical communication and workflow solutions. This role involves modernizing backend architecture, integrating distributed systems, and contributing to hospital operations. Responsibilities include designing and building cloud-native microservices using Java and Node.js, developing APIs with gRPC/REST, optimizing Kafka-based event systems, and supporting critical production environments. The engineer will deploy and monitor services across multi-cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) using CI/CD and observability tools, driving improvements in security, scalability, and performance. Collaboration with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams is essential.
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Stryker’s Edge Product Engineering team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend systems to build secure, scalable, and high-performance services for clinical communication and workflow solutions. As a senior engineer, you will help modernize our backend architecture, integrate distributed systems, and contribute to the foundation of mission-critical hospital operations. You will work across Java and Java-based frameworks, Kafka-based event systems, and deploy across multi-cloud environments including GCP, AWS, and Azure. While this role is backend-focused, you will collaborate closely with dedicated client engineering teams.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and maintain cloud-native microservices using Java based frameworks and Node.js.
- Develop robust APIs and service contracts using gRPC, REST, or similar technologies.
- Build and optimize Kafka-based event-driven architectures for high-throughput communication.
- Investigate and resolve production escalations (T3) by working across logs, metrics, and distributed traces.
- Collaborate on hotfixes and patch releases as part of incident management, including on-call rotations
- Lead and support root cause analysis (RCA) efforts with clear documentation and stakeholder communication
- Modernize and refactor legacy services into containerized and cloud-optimized components.
- Deploy and monitor services in GCP, AWS, and/or Azure using CI/CD pipelines and observability frameworks.
- Drive security, scalability, and performance improvements across services.
- Collaborate with system architects, product owners, DevOps, and cross-functional teams to define architecture, APIs, and data contracts.
What You Need (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
- 2+ years of experience developing software applications.
- Hands on development in Java and Java based frameworks, performance tuning, and root cause analysis
- Experience supporting critical production environments and participating in on-call rotations.
- Strong understanding of SQL databases such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL
Preferred Qualifications (Strongly Desired)
- Proficiency in OOP design patterns and best practices in Java and supporting frameworks like Spring/Sprint Boot/Hibernate
- Strong understanding of API lifecycle, microservice patterns, and operational monitoring/logging.
- Hands-on experience building and consuming APIs (REST/gRPC) and working in microservices environments.
- Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and exposure to NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB)
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP and/or Azure), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
- Experience with performance profiling tools (JProfiler, or similar tools)
- Experience with observability tools (tracing, metrics, logs) using Datadog and/or CloudWatch.
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Understanding of secure development practices, RBAC, OAuth2/SAML integrations.
- Experience in a regulated industry, especially healthcare or medical devices.
$89,300- $193,400salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
Posted Date: 03/26/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
