Software Engineer - Clinical Software

Software Engineer, Clinical Software role focused on building and maintaining regulated clinical applications with strong emphasis on data integrity and controlled change.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain features and components across Caris clinical software platforms with well-structured, testable, documented code suitable for regulated production use.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions, evaluating technical options and trade-offs that guide team decisions.
• Perform and receive peer code reviews to uphold code quality and surface risks related to correctness, performance, or compliance.
• Partner with product management to clarify requirements, understand technical constraints, and estimate backlog items.
• Maintain the technical record, including design documents, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks aligned with SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
• Instrument, monitor, and support production systems; join incident response and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Develop automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels as first-class engineering deliverables.
• Automate recurring engineering and operational work uncovered by delivery, turning repeated manual steps into scripted automation with review and quality controls.
• Engage in pair programming and structured knowledge sharing; escalate complex architectural or compliance topics to senior engineers.
• Identify technical debt and reliability concerns and drive remediation that improves maintainability and compliance posture.
• Work AI-first using AI coding assistants and agentic workflows for daily design, implementation, and test generation, with peer and engineering review as the quality gate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Hands-on experience across the full SDLC in a team environment, including requirements refinement, design, implementation, testing, and release.
• Proven experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production software at unit, integration, and/or end-to-end levels.
• Working proficiency in code review and applying engineering standards to shared codebases.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows in real engineering work.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.

Technologies

• Java
• TypeScript
• Browser-based application frameworks
• Server-side JavaScript
• Enterprise Java components
• CI/CD
• Application-level observability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
• Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and associated tooling.
• Exposure to cloud-native application development and deployment patterns.
• Interest in growing into technical design and architecture discussions, including clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to participate in pair programming, knowledge sharing, or structured peer learning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applied to complex, regulated production systems.
• Experience in regulated environments governed by FDA requirements, SOX controls, CLIA, or HIPAA (regulated-domain experience preferred, not required).

Training

All job-specific, safety, and compliance training is assigned based on the job functions associated with this employee.

Other Details

• Periodic travel to other Caris sites or partner locations may be required.
• After-hours response to emergency production issues and participation in periodic scheduled on-call rotations may be required.

Conditions of Employment

• Successful completion of the pre-employment process, including criminal background check, drug screening, credit check (applicable for certain positions), and reference verification.