Senior Principal Software Engineer

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your work saves lives

The research we do and the products we develop improve outcomes for patients around the world. As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Baxter, your work directly contributes to making a significant impact on others. Its challenging work—and you're not on your own. Our teams collaborate multi-functionally and lead by influence. Whether guiding a team through a project or leading direct reports, our research and development team is responsible for influencing others to achieve results!

Your Team

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the research and development of advanced vision care cloud solutions, saving vision for diabetic patients in primary healthcare settings. You will be involved with and have influence over the entire lifecycle including architecture, design, development, and sustaining engineering for new and existing products. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on technical abilities, an understanding of modern software practices, a vision for software development, and a passion for their work in redefining healthcare!

What you'll be doing

• Support new product development and sustaining development for cloud-based products that integrate with Electronic Medical Record Systems.
• Work in an Agile Scrum environment, focusing on sustainable development of high performance scalable and maintainable enterprise solutions.
• Facilitate design discussions regarding architecture and business requirements with Architects, Product Owners, and Business Analysts. Take ownership of undefined and unbounded problems and work with the team to build and deliver scalable designs and solutions.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement and development across products, teams, architecture, and implementations.
• Ensure successful system delivery to the production environment and assist the operations and support team in resolving production issues.
• Provide team development and mentorship to individual team members while ensuring use of required technical proficiencies.
• Participate in the pull request (code reviews) process to ensure alignment to coding standard methodologies.
• Proven track record of authoring outstanding code, employing known software and enterprise patterns.

What you'll bring

• B.S. in an engineering, software development, or related subject area with 7+ years of validated experience in a software development role delivering solutions and driving products to production.
• Experienced in working on large enterprise, high-availability, software products.
• Proven professional experience with C#, .NET Core, ASP .NET, SQL.
• Experience integrating with EMR/EHR systems and understanding of healthcare data standards (HL7).
• Experience with Mirth Connect (NextGen Connect), including developing, deploying, and managing interfaces.
• Experience with relational or document databases, both are a plus.
• Experience in microservice architecture, implementation, deployment, and testing (unit, integration, performance).
• Experience developing software in an agile environment and shipping features in a fast paced, cross-disciplinary team. (Product Owners, Designers, Business Analysts, QA, etc.)
• Proven experience with test driven development.
• Experience with CI/CD, Azure pipelines, or concepts and tools in integration/continuous delivery and deployment.
• Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, Linux container, Kubernetes, and general containerization/orchestration approaches is a plus.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws