Advanced Backend Software Engineer

As a foundational member of this team, you will play a key role in acquiring platform knowledge, establishing engineering standards, shaping technical direction, and helping create sustainable internal ownership.

You will become a technical leader for the platform’s services, APIs, integrations, and business logic while remaining hands-on in software design, development, and operational support. What You’ll Do as an Advanced Software Engineer

• 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.

Required:

• 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.

Preferred:

• 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.

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and financial future.

Here is a brief overview of what we offer:

Market Competitive Pay Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision Benefits Long/Short Term Disability Coverage 401(k) with a company match Maternity and Paternity Leave Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance Tuition Reimbursement and continued education programs Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

Pay range for this opportunity is $120,000 - $140,000. This position is also eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.