Software Engineer - Clinical Software

Caris Life Sciences•Irving, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineer, Clinical Software Products contributes engineering work across Caris Life Sciences’ clinical application portfolio, supporting product delivery, reliability, and incremental modernization of production systems used in regulated clinical workflows. This assignment supports the case-management and order-intake platform, including the order front door and case-lifecycle services that process cases on their way to a report. The work emphasizes data integrity, controlled change, and order-to-report throughput.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software systems.
Hands-on experience across the full software development lifecycle in a team setting, including requirements refinement, design, implementation, testing, and release.
Experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production software at the unit, integration, or end-to-end level.
Working proficiency in code review and applying engineering standards to shared codebases.
Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows in real engineering work.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook, and general working knowledge of using the Internet for business.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and related tooling.
Exposure to cloud-native application development and deployment patterns.
Interest in developing technical design and architecture skills, with the ability to explain ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Willingness to participate in pair programming, knowledge sharing, or structured peer learning.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applied to complex, regulated production systems.
Experience in environments governed by FDA requirements, SOX controls, CLIA, or HIPAA.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain features and components across clinical software platforms, producing well-structured, testable, documented code suitable for regulated production environments.
Contribute to design and architecture discussions and understand the technical options and trade-offs informing team decisions.
Give and receive peer code reviews, uphold code-quality standards, and surface issues affecting correctness, performance, or compliance.
Work with product management to clarify requirements, understand technical constraints, and estimate backlog items.
Maintain technical records, including design documents, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks, in accordance with SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
Instrument, monitor, and support production systems; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
Build automated test coverage at unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.
Automate recurring engineering and operational work through scripted, reviewed automation.
Participate in pair programming and structured knowledge sharing, escalating complex architectural or compliance questions to senior engineers.
Identify technical-debt and reliability concerns and carry out remediation that improves maintainability or compliance posture.
Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows across design, implementation, and test generation, with peer and engineering review as the quality gate.