Senior Software Engineer

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design, documentation, development, and testing of software solutions for new and existing networked medical devices and medical device data handling systems.  The Senior Software Engineer is also responsible for analyzing product/system-level requirements and translating them into software requirements, as well as the deployment and delivery of specific software features and functionality. This position works independently and within a cross functional team without continuous supervision.

 

This position is located onsite in Mentor Ohio or Pt Richmond CA locations (Hybrid ).

Duties

• Contributes to cross-functional project planning, development, and analysis of product requirements, and proposed solutions.
• Refine and refactor the software architecture based on the system architecture and new product requirements.
• Designs, documents, implements, and maintains efficient, reusable, secure, and reliable software code according to corporate and department standards and procedures for new and sustaining engineering projects, maintaining code quality, organization, and automation.
• Creates software development process documentation, including requirements, design and interface specifications, and verification documentation.
• Develops time and effort estimates for features and functions.
• Develops and performs unit, integration, and/or system testing of applications as required.
• Participates in design reviews to identify issues and provide recommendations for enhancements.
• Works independently on routine activities, issues, plans, and larger-scale designs.
• Will act as a mentor to junior engineers although not directly responsible for their management.
• Identifies bottlenecks and bugs, and devises solutions to these problems.
• Reviews and resolves software defects and change requests.
• Reviews and approves plans and detailed designs.
• Supports the release of software for products.
• Performs design transfer activities including supporting the customer-facing software implementation team with deploying and sustaining customized network and IT implementations.

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering required with 3 or more years of related engineering experience OR Master’s Degree in above noted field with 1 or more years of related engineering experience.  (A degree in another Engineering discipline may be acceptable with proven software education and/or training and 3 or more years of demonstrated software experience).
• Proficient experience with the Linux operating system and server administration is required.
• Experience with SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bash is required.
• Experience with Git version control is required.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, multi-threaded/multi-tasking programming, and server-client architecture is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong problem-solving skills are required.
• Capable of solving engineering problems through accurate interpretation of requirements and test results.
• Exceptional team player with leadership experience.
• Experience performing software requirement analysis and definition.    Experience working with stakeholders to refine product requirements to be realized in software is required.

Required Experience continues:

• Experience in automation of software processes and software build including network infrastructure provisioning and monitoring.
• Experience with Ethernet, network architectures, network protocols, HTTP/HTTPS, SIP/H.323, and SSH is highly desired.
• Proven experience at software analysis, development, task time and effort estimation, and execution to plan.
• Experience creating automated tests is required.
• Working knowledge of hospital network systems and compliance and including Electronic Medical Records, HIPAA, HL7, PACS, DICOM, Vendor Neutral Archives, and VPN connections.

Preferred Experience

 

• Ruby on Rails experience is highly desired.
• Understanding of UX and human factors is desired.
• Exposure to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is desired.
• Comfortable working in a shell terminal (i.e. command-line).
• Comfortable participating in code peer review (i.e. pull requests) and pair-programming.
• Experience with agile development and the Scrum framework is desired.