Software Engineer - Quality Applications (Java)

About the role

The Software Engineer, Quality Applications develops, enhances, validates and supports applications built in-house or on a vendor-provided platform. The role partners with Quality, Regulatory, laboratory operations, infrastructure and business stakeholders to keep applications reliable, compliant and effective, while contributing to their technical modernization. It is a hybrid arrangement of 3 days per week onsite.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and support enterprise applications, and maintain and modernize complex legacy and business-critical systems.
• Build and support business rules engines, system integrations, automated workflows, reporting solutions and data analytics platforms, including Power BI and enterprise reporting tools.
• Support regulated operational environments by troubleshooting production issues, optimizing performance and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Deliver software with quality, reliability and compliance, covering CI/CD, testing, validation and deployment.
• Provide application support and operational maintenance, including incident management, root cause analysis and performance monitoring.
• Reduce technical debt through automation and scripting, and maintain technical documentation, procedures and knowledge repositories.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 6+ years of software engineering or application development experience, including production enterprise applications.
• Experience in a regulated GxP or GAMP-based software development lifecycle, including computer system validation.
• Hands-on use of enterprise-approved AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot) and practical understanding of prompt engineering and LLMs.
• Preferred: awareness of FDA 510(k) requirements, exposure to healthcare, life sciences or validated systems, and a relevant cloud or developer certification.

Required skills

• Java, Tomcat, Python and Spring Boot framework.
• Strong SQL and Oracle database skills, including query development, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Web-based application development and legacy runtime environments.
• AI-assisted coding, debugging, test creation, documentation and requirements analysis.