Sr Principal Engineer, Software

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At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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Job Summary

Sr Principal Engineer, Software leads the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable, cost-effective software solutions leveraging C#, .NET, and microservices architectures, while providing technical leadership, mentoring engineering teams, and driving engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing

• Designs and architects’ scalable software solutions using modern engineering practices. 
• Leads complex programs or key workstreams, including planning, scheduling, and execution. 
• Translates product and software requirements into architecture, concepts, and design alternatives. 
• Solves ambiguous, complex technical problems while balancing quality, cost, time, and business needs. 
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, users, and external partners to deliver and maintain software architecture. 
• Serves as a subject-matter expert and influences technical direction across teams and product platforms. 
• Mentor engineers and may coordinate assigned engineering or technical staff. 
• Design and implement integrations using REST APIs, WebSockets, SignalR, and real-time voice communication technologies.
• Apply HIPAA-aligned security practices for data handling, authentication, voice communications, messaging, and notifications.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, with a minimum of 13 years of relevant professional experience.

• Strong technical leadership, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Ability to align technical decisions with business objectives, cost, quality, and delivery expectations.
• Advanced experience with .NET, C#, Web APIs, microservices, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Azure or AWS and relational database design, including SQL Server.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, or React is desirable.
• Proven record of delivering solutions to complex technical challenges; medical-device software experience is preferred.

Good to have

• Experience with WebRTC, SIP, VoIP, media sessions, call signaling, or voice gateway integrations.
• Experience building secure communication, clinical communication, messaging, or alerting applications.
• Experience troubleshooting real-time voice quality, connectivity, latency, reconnection, and device compatibility issues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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