THIS IS WHERE YOU SAVE AND SUSTAIN LIVES

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
Job Description
The Senior Engineer, Software is part of a team working in an Agile/Scrum software development environment specializing in healthcare solutions based in Gloucestershire.
The Senior Engineer, Software will have a high degree of knowledge and experience for a range of software development disciplines and will share this experience and knowledge to provide expert-level insight for software development activities. They will be involved in figuring out most appropriate technological ways of implementing new features and enhancing existing ones and will work closely with the Lead System Designer/Product Design Owner and Software Architect to help continuously improve the team’s software development activities.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Computer Science degree or equivalent qualifications/experience

• Senior Engineers are collectively responsible for defining, educating and implementing the coding standards which the department will observe alongside programming “best practice”.
• Senior Engineers will also largely dictate acceptable design patterns, tools and techniques to be employed to perform common operations such as caching, queuing, logging, persistence and security.
• All activities in the SDLC will be undertaken and the Senior Engineers should be capable of anticipating performance and scalability issues pre-implementation.
• The Senior Engineer is also required to undertake 3rd-line support tasks, diagnosing and rectifying issues on customer systems.