Senior Software Engineer

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity.

Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you’re interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Own delivery of backend/services work from design through production.
• Contribute to and lead technical design for complex features, services, and components.
• Identify risks, and define mitigation strategies.
• Write high-quality code, mainly in Python, and participate actively in code reviews.
• Improve testability, observability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Provide technical mentorship to team members through code review, pairing and design feedback.
• Promote high engineering standards - ensuring clarity, scalability, and maintainability in all designs.
• Collaborate with product, systems, QA, clinical/domain, and engineering partners to deliver reliable solutions.
• Create clear technical documentation - capturing architectural decisions, design rationale, and system context with the clarity and depth needed for teammates to collaborate and extend independently.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 6+ years of backend or systems engineering experience, preferably with strong Python proficiency.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production, with solid understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), databases, APIs, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong focus on quality assurance, including testing strategies, code review practices, and system reliability.
• Proven ability to own substantial backend or systems work from design through production, including surfacing risks early, driving pragmatic solutions, and taking accountability for quality and maintainability.
• Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, including making progress with incomplete information, breaking down complex problems, and adapting approach as requirements evolve.
• Excellent documentation skills and experience with knowledge transfer for project handovers.
• Must be willing to commute to London 2 to 3 days per week.

Interest in AI-assisted or agentic coding workflows, with good judgment around code review, testing, and responsible use of generated code; product experience with agentic coding tools is a plus.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

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