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Senior Back-end Software Engineer

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San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/14/2026
Work Flexibility: Remote

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. You will work across Java and Java-based frameworks, Kafka-based event systems, and deploy across multi-cloud environments including Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure. While this role is backend-focused, you will collaborate closely with dedicated client engineering teams.

What You Will Do

  • 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 Google Cloud Platform, 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.

What You Need (Required Qualifications)

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly Desired)

  • 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, Google Cloud Platform 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.

$89,300- $193,400 salary plus bonus eligible benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Salary : $89,300 - $193,400

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