Sr. Systems Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryOversee the end-to-end lifecycle of software applications, emphasizing DevOps principles, robust backend (Python, PostgreSQL) and engaging frontend (React) development. Drive the continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Docker, Linux) and ensure resilient network architectures (VLAN, ARP proficiency). Lead and consult on complex technical projects requiring deep expertise in full-stack development, automation, and network operations. Contribute significantly to building scalable, service-oriented platforms with reusable components, with opportunities to leverage Ansible/AWX, AWS, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, or Golang.
About GE HealthCare
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator with over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally. We enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health - digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world.

Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design and development of full-stack applications, focusing on Python for backend services, React for frontend interfaces, and ORM with PostgreSQL/MySQL for data persistence.
• Architect, implement, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Docker, and Linux environments to automate software delivery and ensure high availability
• Champion DevOps methodologies and best practices across teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain scalable backend systems using Python (e.g., with asynchronous frameworks) and design intuitive, responsive user interfaces with React.
• Oversee containerization strategies using Docker and manage deployments, ensuring network configurations (VLANs, ARP, routing, firewalls) support application needs effectively.
• Optionally, contribute to infrastructure automation with Ansible, manage cloud services on AWS and Kubernetes, and implement infrastructure as code with Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Lead the research and adoption of emerging technologies in full-stack development (Python, React), DevOps, CI/CD, and networking to enhance our technical capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers on Python, ORM, React, modern DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, Docker, and Linux systems.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define technical requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
• Drive the development of Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) using modern technologies and robust design patterns for scalable, enterprise-class applications.
• Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of applications and infrastructure through proactive design, implementation, and monitoring.
• Contribute to the creation of service-oriented software platforms with reusable backend and frontend components.
• Utilize your network savvy to design, troubleshoot, and optimize application connectivity and communication across various network segments and architectures.
• Experience with Golang for specific microservices or performance-critical components is considered a valuable asset.
• Manage and optimize PostgreSQL databases, including schema design, query performance tuning, and ensuring data integrity and availability.
• Foster strong peer and cross-functional relationships to maximize best practice sharing, team effectiveness, and streamline development and operational workflows.
• Participate in strategic planning for technology roadmaps, focusing on DevOps transformation, full-stack application architecture, and evolving infrastructure needs.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with significant experience with minimum years of experience 8 years

Technical Expertise:

• Participates in domain technical and business discussions relative to future design direction aligning with business goals.
• Gathers and analyzes data, develop design for the requirements at project level, aligning design requirements with software development strategy.
• Reviews exceptions and makes recommendations to the standards at a domain level.
• Demonstrate knowledge of business' structure (P&Ls) and the interplay of functions to support business goals; demonstrate knowledge of the business products, key processes, suppliers, customers and market/competitors.
• Collaborates with project management on reporting project status, issues, risks and benefits.

Business Acumen:

• Create, analyze and manage projects that provide direct business benefit; demonstrate detailed knowledge of business operations and strategic direction, including merger & acquisition opportunities; understand industry trends and competitive landscape and the implications for your business; partner with business leaders to align projects with business goals and needs.

Leadership:

• Recommends allocation of budget to meet product initiatives critical to business/mission success. Develops the business case for approval.
• Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain. Define the skills, competencies in the skills and talents for the team members.
• Facilitates dialogues that produce new perspectives and trigger recommendations for substantial innovative / enhancements, and analysis of consequences.
• Influences through others. Uses experts or other third parties to influence. Builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas, uses chains of indirect influence.

Personal Attributes:

• Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities.
• Takes a holistic systems perspective. Envisions, compares multiple potential long-range enterprise-wide futures. Empathizes with multiple points of view.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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