Software Engineer

Scorpion Therapeutics; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics, located in Irving, TX, seeks a software engineer to design, implement, and maintain features across clinical software applications in a regulated production environment.

You will own end-to-end delivery, participate in design trade-offs, review code, and collaborate with product management while building automated tests and documentation to meet SOX and FDA change-control obligations.

Qualifications

• BS in CS/Software Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years of professional software engineering in production systems.
• Full SDLC experience in a team environment (requirements, design, implementation, testing, release).
• Experience writing/maintaining automated tests for production.
• Routine peer code review practice.
• Regular use of modern AI-assisted development tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain features across assigned clinical software applications; write testable, documented code for a regulated production environment.
• Deliver independently end-to-end (requirement refinement through release); surface risks/trade-offs early.
• Participate in design/architecture trade-off discussions.
• Perform and support peer code reviews; uphold code quality and compliance.
• Partner with product management to refine requirements, identify constraints, and estimate backlog items.
• Write and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Produce technical documentation (design notes, ADRs, operational runbooks) meeting SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
• Instrument/monitor/support production systems; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Automate recurring manual tasks.
• Support newer engineers via code review and knowledge sharing.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows across design, implementation, and test generation (with peer/engineering review).

Education

BS in CS/Software Engineering or related field

Tools

AI-assisted development tooling

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain features/components across assigned clinical software applications; write testable, documented code for a regulated production environment.
• Deliver independently end-to-end (requirement refinement through release); surface risks/trade-offs early.
• Participate in design/architecture trade-off discussions.
• Perform and support peer code reviews; uphold code quality and compliance.
• Partner with product management to refine requirements, identify constraints, and estimate backlog items.
• Write and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Produce technical documentation (design notes, ADRs, operational runbooks) meeting SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
• Instrument/monitor/support production systems; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Automate recurring manual tasks.
• Support newer engineers via code review and knowledge sharing.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows across design, implementation, and test generation (with peer/engineering review).

Required Qualifications:

• BS in CS/Software Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years professional software engineering in production systems.
• Full SDLC experience in a team environment (requirements, design, implementation, testing, release).
• Experience writing/maintaining automated tests for production.
• Routine peer code review practice.
• Regular use of modern AI-assisted development tooling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare/clinical lab/diagnostics/life sciences software background.
• Agile delivery framework familiarity.
• Cloud-native development/deployment patterns.
• Experience in FDA/SOX/CLIA/HIPAA-governed environments.

Other:

• Periodic travel and on-call/after-hours support for production emergencies may be required.