Senior Back-end Software Engineer

Stryker is a company that offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics, and Spine to improve patient and healthcare outcomes. They are seeking a Senior Back-end Software Engineer to build secure, scalable, and high-performance services for clinical communication and workflow solutions, while modernizing backend architecture and collaborating with client engineering teams. Responsibilities: 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 GCP, 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 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 Required Skills: Java, Microservices, Cloud services, SQL databases, API development, OOP design patterns, Container orchestration, Performance tuning, Root cause analysis, Observability tools, Infrastructure-as-code, Secure development practices