What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - hybrid position at Ascom UMS?
Communication!
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a central role in the design, development, and evolution of Ascom’s clinical alarm management software solutions. We build event-driven, highly available distributed backend systems that support clinical interfaces, communication protocols, and near real-time event processing workflows. This role is well suited to engineers who thrive on building performant, reliable, and maintainable systems for complex real-world integrations, while influencing technical direction, architecture, and product quality.
The position is within R&D at our Morrisville (RTP) office. This is a hybrid position - 3 days a week in the office.
What You’ll Do
At Ascom, you’ll be part of a dynamic team driving innovation and you’ll get to work on meaningful projects that impact safety and communication.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and become a key contributor to Ascom’s mission to transform healthcare and enterprise communication.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a central role in the design, development, and evolution of Ascom’s clinical alarm management software solutions. We build event-driven, highly available distributed backend systems that support clinical interfaces, communication protocols, and near real-time event processing workflows. This role is well suited to engineers who thrive on building performant, reliable, and maintainable systems for complex real-world integrations, while influencing technical direction, architecture, and product quality.
The position is within R&D at our Morrisville (RTP) office. This is a hybrid position - 3 days a week in the office.
What You’ll Do
- Translate stakeholder and customer needs into robust technical solutions
- Own features end-to-end across design, implementation, deployment, and support
- Lead technical investigations, prototypes, and pre-studies to support product direction and architectural decisions
- Collaborate across teams on architecture, engineering standards, and shared solutions
- Participate in and lead design and code reviews to improve quality and consistency
- Support diagnosis, resolution, and prevention of issues in existing products and real clinical environments
- Promote and contribute to test automation, unit testing, and product verification
- Identify and reduce technical debt and improve the codebase through refactoring and continuous improvement
- Mentor and coach other engineers to improve development practices and outcomes
- Work within a regulated medical device software environment, with development aligned to standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 13485
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 6 years of professional software development experience
- Hands-on experience in commercial software development, ideally in cross-functional teams.
- Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable, highly available distributed systems
- Strong experience with C# and .NET development
- Strong debugging, profiling, and analysis skills for concurrent, multi-threaded backend services
- Experience with unit testing frameworks, tools, and methodologies, and a strong commitment to promoting their effective use
- Experience specifying and implementing standard and custom communication protocols, such as REST APIs, TCP/IP sockets, HL7, etc.
- Experience with ORMs, such as Entity Framework, and databases, such as SQL Server
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or similar
- Familiarity with cloud and container-based architectures, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Azure or other cloud providers
At Ascom, you’ll be part of a dynamic team driving innovation and you’ll get to work on meaningful projects that impact safety and communication.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and become a key contributor to Ascom’s mission to transform healthcare and enterprise communication.