Software Engineer IV

ARUP Laboratories; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ARUP Laboratories, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking a Software Engineer IV to lead design and delivery of software products and services. You will own product quality, drive release readiness, and mentor engineers while coordinating with adjacent teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions that support clinical needs.

In this senior role, you will apply broad experience to guide architecture, data modeling, and reliability, while advocating security, observability, and performance across

Qualifications

• Subject matter expert in application features within a system.
• Data modeling fundamentals.
• Concurrency, distributed systems, optimization, security, and observability.
• 10+ years of professional technical experience with CS/SE degree options.
• React, TypeScript, Playwright, and Node.js knowledge.
• Experience creating and optimizing SQL Server and MongoDB queries.
• Full-stack system architecture experience.
• Experience using AI tooling to generate and review code.

Responsibilities

• Architects, builds, and maintains software products and services.
• Drives software quality with security, observability, and performance.
• Defines technical requirements and release readiness criteria.
• Mentors engineers and collaborates with adjacent teams.
• Collaborates with medical directors and lab scientists to align technical solutions.

Job description

A Software Engineer IV is a senior engineer and leading contributor to software development projects, designing and delivering software products and services. The engineer takes responsibility for product quality, stability, and release readiness. The engineer applies broad experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, mentors other engineers through technical guidance, and coordinates technical efforts with adjacent teams.

About ARUP

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.

We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

Essential Functions

Software Development

• Architects, builds, and maintains software products and services, launching new systems and shared libraries as the organization requires.
• Trusted to make high-impact technical decisions that set direction for the team's technical approach.
• Drives software quality by embedding security, observability, and performance into systems designed for concurrency and scale.
• Evaluates and deploys AI development tools that accelerate the team, establishing standards for tool configuration and documentation across projects.
• Independently leverages AI tools to automate routine development work, boost personal productivity, learn new concepts and technologies, explore solution alternatives, and discover root causes of issues.

System Design

• Defines technical requirements for services and applications that advance product goals.
• Evaluates data modeling alternatives and defines non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Embeds reliability engineering into application and service design from the start.

Maintenance and Ownership

• Sets and enforces team quality standards, testing strategies, and coding practices while keeping a pulse on overall codebase health.
• Diagnoses complex production issues and defines the monitoring and alerting strategy for owned products.
• Drives resolution of significant technical debt and evaluates emerging tools and frameworks for team adoption.
• Steers team planning with technical insight and proactively clears blockers for other engineers.
• Shapes the team's deployment strategy and release readiness criteria, coordinating with DevOps and Operations teams on pipeline and infrastructure needs.

Communication and Collaboration

• Mentors engineers across skill levels and partners with adjacent teams to solve cross-cutting technical challenges.
• Translates complex technical decisions into clear business and user impact for non-technical stakeholders.
• Works directly with medical directors and lab scientists to align technical solutions with clinical needs, and partners with product and project managers on roadmap priorities.
• Documents system architecture and design patterns that serve as durable references for the engineering team.
• Elevates the team through technical teaching and plays a key role in hiring through technical interviews, expanding toward principal-level organizational influence.

Other duties as assigned.

Physical and Other Requirements

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Communicate: Frequently and effectively communicate with others.
• PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
• ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.

Qualifications

Education

Required

High School Diploma or Equivalent or better.

Preferred

Associates Degree or better in Computer Science or related field.

Bachelor's Degree or better in Computer Science or related field.

Experience

Required

Subject matter expert application features and functionality interact within a system

Subject matter expert with knowledge of data modeling fundamentals.

Subject matter expert with understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, optimization, security, and observability.

10 years: One or the following education and experience combinations: BA/BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of professional technical experience; ORAA/AS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 9+ years of professional technical experience; ORHigh school diploma or equivalent and 10+ years of professional technical experience without a degree

Preferred

Deep expertise in many technical skills such as languages, databases, frameworks, paradigms, etc.

Subject matter expert understanding of React, TypeScript, Playwright, and Node.js.

Experience creating and optimizing SQL Server and MongoDB queries.

Experience architecting full-stack systems, including endpoint design, UI component design, and Figma-to-code implementation.

Experience using AI tooling to architect, generate, and review code.

Understanding of software deployment strategies and their impact on application design

10 years: 10+ years of experience as a software engineer or equivalent

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