Senior Staff Software Engineer
Top focus
Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite Who we want: Vocera, now part of Stryker, is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer with 10–14 years of software development experience to architect, design, and develop scalable cloud-native applications and platform services.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Confluent Kafka, and AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure . This individual will drive architecture, influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and lead the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise solutions.
The successful candidate demonstrates a passion for engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous learning while adapting to evolving technologies and business needs
What You Will Do
- Technical Responsibilities Lead the architecture, design
- development of scalable cloud-native applications and platform services. Design and develop distributed systems, microservices
- event-driven solutions using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot
- Confluent Kafka. Apply advanced software engineering principles, architecture patterns
- design best practices to solve complex technical problems. Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews
- technical decision-making across teams. Design secure, resilient
- high-performing backend services and enterprise APIs. Evaluate, recommend
- adopt new technologies, frameworks
- cloud capabilities to improve engineering outcomes. Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts
- platform modernization initiatives. Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through technical guidance and knowledge sharing. Produce and review technical artifacts including architecture, design, implementation
- operational documentation. General Responsibilities Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps, Quality
- Program Management teams to deliver high-quality software. Lead complex engineering initiatives from design through production deployment. Drive engineering best practices, software quality, security, automation
- operational excellence. Mentor and develop engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation
- continuous improvement. Lead architecture reviews and code reviews while promoting engineering standards and best practices. Minimum Qualifications (Required):
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 10 + years of work experience Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired): Experience designing and building highly available, cloud-native SaaS or enterprise platforms. Experience with platform engineering, multi-tenant architectures
- enterprise integration patterns. Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog , Prometheus , Grafana
- OpenTelemetry . Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and modern CI/CD practices. Exposure to AI-assisted software development, developer productivity tools
- GenAI technologies is an added advantage. Experience in Healthcare or other regulated industries is preferred. Travel Percentage: 10%