Software Engineer, Cloud

Stryker; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with ESPP

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain cloud-based platforms and APIs powering AI-enabled health applications across XR, mobile, web and desktop experiences.

You will build secure, scalable, event-driven systems that ingest, process, and expose clinical and operational data, including media like images and CT scans. You’ll work with cross-functional teams in a regulated environment and may contribute to Web UI components.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline with 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience writing maintainable and testable code using modern programming languages (e.g., C#, Python, Java).
• Experience developing backend services and APIs hosted in the Cloud using PaaS/SaaS/IaaS.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across distributed systems.
• Experience with Single Page Application frameworks such as React or Angular.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend platforms and APIs in Cloud infrastructure for AI-enabled health applications.
• Build secure, scalable, event-driven data pipelines handling text, images, STL files, CT scans, and videos.
• Contribute to frontend work for Web applications as needed.
• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, security, regulatory, and other teams to deliver compliant solutions.
• Translate requirements into secure, robust backend components.

Skills

C#, Python, Java

Distributed systems

React/Angular

Unit testing

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Job description

What You Will Do:

As a backend Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain platforms and APIs built on Cloud infrastructure and services that power our AI-enabled mobile, XR, web and desktop applications across Stryker’s digital health ecosystem. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, event‑driven systems that ingest, process, and expose clinical and operational data including text, images, STL files, CT scans, and videos. These systems also invoke AI models to summarize and analyze that data. You will work across cross‑functional teams to implement robust data pipelines, ensure high reliability, and contribute to architecture, documentation, and quality processes within a regulated environment. This role is backend-focused, but you will have the opportunity at times to contribute to Web UI application components.

What You Will Do:

As a backend Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain platforms and APIs built on Cloud infrastructure and services that power our AI-enabled mobile, XR, web and desktop applications across Stryker’s digital health ecosystem. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable, event‑driven systems that ingest, process, and expose clinical and operational data including text, images, STL files, CT scans, and videos. These systems also invoke AI models to summarize and analyze that data. You will work across cross‑functional teams to implement robust data pipelines, ensure high reliability, and contribute to architecture, documentation, and quality processes within a regulated environment. This role is backend-focused, but you will have the opportunity at times to contribute to Web UI application components. In this role, you will help build the foundations that enable the next generation of intelligent, data‑driven healthcare solutions. You'll contribute to systems that support clinicians, operating rooms, and patients around the world giving you the opportunity to work on meaningful technology with real clinical impact. You'll join a collaborative team within an AI-focused organization that values innovation, craftsmanship, and continuous learning, and you'll have room to grow your technical skills across distributed systems, Cloud platforms, and modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted development. If you're passionate about creating reliable platforms that power cutting‑edge AI‑enhanced products, this is a role where you have a real impact.

• Implement secure, reliable, high‑performance APIs hosted in the Cloud that support Stryker medical device classified mobile, XR, web, and desktop applications.
• Implement secure, reliable, scalable data-processing and data-ingestion Cloud hosted pipeline components for large data objects such as images, videos, and STL files.
• Contribute to front‑end implementation of Web applications.
• Perform code reviews ensuring adherence to coding standards, architectural guidelines, and best practices.
• Implement automated unit tests and integration testing.
• Implement proof of concepts to benchmark and validate design approaches for backend Cloud solutions.
• Close collaboration with Product Owners, QA testers, mobile/XR/web/desktop software engineers, product security, regulatory, and other project stakeholders.
• Translate functional requirements into secure, reliable, scalable backend components.

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline along with 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience writing maintainable and testable code using modern programming languages (e.g., C#, Python, Java), with application of established design principles and patterns
• Experience developing backend services, and APIs hosted in the Cloud leveraging PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS applying design patterns/principles
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across distributed systems
• Experience with Single Page Application frameworks such as React or Angular.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing and working with Docker containers.
• Familiarity with security considerations and protocols (e.g., OAuth, SSL/TLS)
• Exposure to regulated environments or working on medical device

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
• US5: $93,800 - $156,200 USD Annual
• US10: $98,200 - $163,700 USD Annual
• US15: $102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual
• US20: $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual
• US30: $116,100 - $193,400 USD Annual

View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.