Sr. Staff Software Engineer

GE HealthCare • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of cloud-based solutions at GE Healthcare. You’ll lead the design and development of complex, scalable systems and services, driving architectural decisions and setting engineering standards across teams. Your work will influence early-stage product strategy and long-term platform evolution, ensuring robust, secure, and high-performing solutions that meet the needs of our global healthcare customers. You will collaborate closely with product, research, and engineering leaders to define and execute on technical roadmaps, mentor senior engineers, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Your contributions will extend beyond code—impacting organizational strategy, cross-functional alignment, and the advancement of our digital transformation initiatives. At GE Healthcare, we are committed to delivering cloud and edge computing services that power precision health. Our Science & Technology organization is at the forefront of this mission, leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and intelligent software to make healthcare more personalized, efficient, and accessible. As a Principal Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving this transformation—leading initiatives that improve outcomes for patients and providers, and helping create a world where healthcare has no limits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience, including deep expertise in full stack development.
• 5+ years of experience architecting and building scalable, distributed systems and cloud-native applications using modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., React, Angular, Node.js, Java, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional engineering efforts and delivering complex software systems at scale.
• Strong experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture and practices.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience driving architectural decisions across multiple teams or product lines.
• Deep understanding of big data systems, analytics platforms, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working directly with executive stakeholders and customers to shape product and technical strategy.
• Expertise in building and scaling production systems with high availability, performance, and security requirements.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills to articulate technical vision and influence stakeholders.
• Experience leading Agile development processes and driving engineering execution across multiple teams.
• Recognized as a technical thought leader within the organization or industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex full stack systems that solve high-impact business problems across multiple teams or domains.
• Define and drive architectural vision for scalable, secure, and maintainable full stack solutions—spanning frontend, backend, APIs, data layers, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with senior leadership, architects, and product stakeholders to align engineering strategy with business goals.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams, ensuring consistency in design patterns, engineering practices, and technology choices.
• Own the delivery of critical software initiatives, guiding teams through ambiguity and ensuring high-quality execution.
• Mentor senior engineers and staff-level contributors, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead design reviews and architecture forums, setting standards and driving adoption of best practices across the organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks, and guide their adoption to improve developer productivity, system performance, and customer experience.
• Champion engineering excellence through rigorous testing, automation, observability, and operational maturity.

Benefits

• GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
• Our team puts a significant value on work-life balance. Having a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We don’t focus on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
• We maintain diverse engineering, and leadership perspectives and backgrounds across technology and beyond.
• Our employees are excited to share their experiences and mentor more junior engineers.
• Team members are highly encouraged to set up mentorship relationships with seasoned engineers, not only in our team, but also across the broader GE Healthcare population.
• Here at GE HealthCare, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have many employee-led affinity groups, innovative benefit offerings, and encourage ongoing learning experiences.

What This Job Offers

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