Advanced Backend Software Engineer

STERIS is hiring an Advanced Backend Software Engineer for its Digital Workflow Solutions team. The role develops and supports backend services, APIs, integrations, and business logic for the SPM Cloud platform, while providing technical leadership, platform operations support, and mentorship.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance backend services, APIs, integrations, and business logic components
• Participate in delivery activities to acquire ownership of platform knowledge and engineering practices
• Develop expertise in application architecture, data models, integration patterns, and system workflows
• Investigate and resolve complex production incidents, defects, and performance issues
• Contribute to technical design discussions, solution reviews, and implementation planning activities
• Build and support scalable, secure, and maintainable cloud-native application services
• Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, and operational runbooks
• Identify opportunities to improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Contribute to future feature development, modernization efforts, and continuous product improvement initiatives
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making
• Mentor engineers and develop capability across the team
• Support adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across development and operations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related degree
• 10+ years of professional software development experience building, enhancing, and supporting enterprise applications
• 10+ years proven experience developing and maintaining business-critical backend systems, APIs, integrations, and data-driven applications
• 10+ years C# and modern .NET development
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, web services, and service-based integrations
• Strong understanding of relational database design, SQL & NoSQL development, and data modelling principles
• Experience with PostgreSQL, RavenDB, SQL Server, or equivalent enterprise database platforms
• Experience working within Agile software delivery methodologies
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation, architectural artifacts, and operational runbooks
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, support, and continuous improvement
• Experience supporting production systems and participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and defect remediation activities
• Experience collaborating with architects, frontend engineers, DevOps engineers, quality engineers, and product stakeholders within Agile delivery teams
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of application components or services and drive them through design, development, and operational support
• Experience working with cloud-hosted, distributed, or service-oriented systems
• Experience participating in technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering improvement initiatives
• Experience mentoring engineers
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering productivity practices
• Experience modernizing legacy systems or participating in large-scale application transformation programs preferred
• Experience developing cloud-native solutions hosted in Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Azure Functions, App Services, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Service Bus, or similar Azure services
• Experience working within healthcare, medical device, financial services, or other regulated industries preferred