Software Engineer IV

ARUP Laboratories Career•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 role takes responsibility for product quality, stability, and release readiness; applies broad experience and judgment to accomplish goals; mentors engineers; and coordinates technical efforts with adjacent teams. The engineer architects, builds, and maintains software products and services, including new systems and shared libraries. They make high-impact technical decisions, embed security, observability, performance, and reliability into systems designed for concurrency and scale, and evaluate and use AI development tools to improve team and individual productivity. The role defines technical requirements, evaluates data-modeling alternatives, and sets non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, and reliability. The position owns codebase health and production outcomes by establishing quality standards, testing strategies, coding practices, monitoring and alerting strategies, and release-readiness criteria. It diagnoses complex production issues, addresses technical debt, evaluates tools and frameworks, contributes technical insight to planning, and coordinates deployment needs with DevOps and Operations. The engineer mentors colleagues, collaborates across teams, explains technical decisions in terms of business and user impact, and works with medical directors and laboratory scientists to align solutions with clinical needs. The role also partners with product and project managers on roadmap priorities, documents architecture and design patterns, teaches technical concepts, and contributes to hiring through technical interviews. Other duties may be assigned. 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. Its workforce provides services to over one million patients each month and is committed to accountability, integrity, service, and excellence.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain software products and services, including new systems and shared libraries.
Make high-impact technical decisions that guide the team's technical approach.
Embed security, observability, performance, and reliability into software systems designed for concurrency and scale.
Evaluate and deploy AI development tools, establish configuration and documentation standards, and use AI tools to automate routine work, improve productivity, learn, explore alternatives, and investigate issues.
Define technical requirements for services and applications that advance product goals.
Evaluate data-modeling alternatives and define non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, and reliability.
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 clear 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 complex 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 as durable engineering references.
Teach technical concepts and participate in hiring through technical interviews.
Perform other duties as assigned.