Senior Back-end Software Engineer

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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