Software Engineer IV

ARUP Laboratories•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

A Software Engineer IV is a senior engineer and leading contributor to software development projects, designing and delivering software products and services. The engineer is responsible for product quality, stability, and release readiness; uses broad experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; mentors other engineers through technical guidance; and coordinates technical efforts with adjacent teams. ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ARUP seeks employees who contribute to a culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence, and emphasizes diversity, professional growth, continuous development, and service to patients. The role architects, builds, and maintains software products and services; makes high-impact technical decisions; embeds security, observability, performance, and reliability into systems; and evaluates and uses AI development tools. It defines technical and non-functional requirements, maintains quality and coding standards, diagnoses complex production issues, guides technical planning and deployment strategy, and works with engineering, DevOps, Operations, medical, laboratory, product, and project colleagues. The engineer documents architecture and design patterns, mentors and teaches engineers, and participates in technical interviews. The position requires occasional movement between work sites and within the office, frequent effective communication, and use of personal protective equipment in a biohazard laboratory environment in accordance with applicable regulations and company policies. Physical requirements also include stooping, reaching, sedentary work involving up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, fine motor tasks, and close, far, and peripheral visual acuity.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain software products and services, including launching new systems and shared libraries as needed.
Make high-impact technical decisions that establish the team's technical direction.
Embed security, observability, and performance into software designed for concurrency and scale.
Evaluate and deploy AI development tools; establish standards for their configuration and documentation across projects.
Use AI tools to automate routine development work, improve productivity, learn technologies, explore solution alternatives, and investigate root causes.
Define technical requirements for services and applications that advance product goals.
Evaluate data-modeling alternatives and define performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
Incorporate reliability engineering into application and service design.
Set and enforce quality standards, testing strategies, and coding practices, and monitor codebase health.
Diagnose complex production issues and define monitoring and alerting strategies for owned products.
Drive resolution of significant technical debt and evaluate emerging tools and frameworks for team adoption.
Contribute technical insight to team planning and proactively remove blockers for other engineers.
Shape deployment strategy and release-readiness criteria, coordinating pipeline and infrastructure needs with DevOps and Operations.
Mentor engineers across skill levels and partner with adjacent teams on cross-cutting technical challenges.
Explain technical decisions in terms of business and user impact to non-technical stakeholders.
Work with medical directors and lab scientists to align technical solutions with clinical needs, and partner with product and project managers on roadmap priorities.
Document system architecture and design patterns for use as durable engineering references.
Teach technical concepts and participate in hiring through technical interviews, expanding toward principal-level organizational influence.
Perform other duties as assigned.