Principal I, Software Engineering - Digital Health

Alcon • Fort Worth, TX

19h • Onsite

About The Position

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Principal I, Software Engineering you will provide hands-on experience for driving development, and maintenance of mission critical enterprise-grade Digital Health applications. This role involves hands-on experience for fixing defects, implementing enhancements, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in multiple programming languages, web development frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms in Fort Worth, TX. Alcon, founded in 1945, sells its products in 180 countries worldwide. Alcon is committed to helping people see better, believing patients should have access to quality eye care regardless of their economic circumstances. Alcon develops and manufactures innovative devices to serve the full life cycle of eye care needs, with its surgical group being one of the largest makers of equipment for cataract removal and laser vision correction, and its consumer products including the Opti-Free line of contact lens solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +13 yrs; Assoc.+9 yrs; M.S.+2 yrs; PhD+0 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
• 5 Years of Relevant Experience
• Deep expertise in C++, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs
• Front‑end experience with React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3
• Cloud & platform skills: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway), Redis, RabbitMQ
• Observability: hands‑on with DataDog, New Relic (dashboards, monitors, APM, logs)
• Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve existing applications for stability and performance
• Analyze and resolve defects promptly using root cause analysis
• Implement new features and enhancements aligned with business needs
• Define technical implementation and design for full-stack solutions
• Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards
• Mentor team members and collaborate with Architects, Product Managers and Program Managers
• Build scalable, secure applications using Java, Spring Boot, and modern front-end frameworks (React/Angular)
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices
• Integrate front-end components with back-end services for seamless user experience
• Implement observability measures and performance monitoring
• Create and maintain DataDog or New Relic dashboards for application health and metrics
• Ensure smooth handover to Cloud Operations with proper documentation and monitoring setup
• Perform Cross functional impact analysis
• Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and regression testing
• Optimize application performance
• Work closely with Development team, QA engineers, and DevOps teams
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Structured problem‑solving, validating with data, and converge on fixes
• Translate product goals into measurable engineering outcomes and prioritize tradeoffs

Benefits

• Benefit from a growing, innovative environment
• Sharpen your current skills and gain exposure within different areas of the business
• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives!
• Sponsorship: Yes
• Inclusive environment that values different perspectives
• Policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status
• Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal