Software Engineer - Clinical Software

Caris MPI, Inc. is seeking an individual contributor to build and maintain clinical software applications used in regulated workflows. This onsite role in Irving, Texas supports order-to-report throughput and places emphasis on data integrity, controlled change, and engineering practices aligned with FDA guidance and SOX controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain features and components across Caris clinical software platforms, delivering well-structured, testable, and documented code suitable for regulated production use.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions by evaluating technical options and trade-offs that inform team decisions.
• Engage in peer code review, maintaining code quality standards and raising issues that may affect correctness, performance, or compliance.
• Partner with product management to refine requirements, understand technical constraints, and estimate backlog items.
• Support the technical record by maintaining design documents, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks in line with SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
• Instrument, monitor, and support production systems; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Develop automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels as core engineering work.
• Automate recurring manual engineering and operational activities, converting repeat steps into scripted, reviewed automation.
• Participate in pair programming and structured knowledge sharing, escalating complex architectural or compliance questions to senior engineers.
• Assess technical debt and reliability risks, then propose and complete remediation to improve maintainability or compliance posture.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows as part of daily practice across design, implementation, and test generation, with peer and engineering review serving as the quality gate.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Hands-on experience across the full SDLC in a team environment, including requirements refinement, design, implementation, testing, and release.
• Proven experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production software at the unit, integration, or end-to-end level.
• Working proficiency in code review and applying engineering standards to shared codebases.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows used in real engineering work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.

Technologies

Java, TypeScript, browser-based application frameworks, server-side JavaScript, enterprise Java components, CI/CD, and application-level observability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
• Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and associated tooling.
• Exposure to cloud-native application development and deployment patterns.
• Interest in growing into technical design and architecture discussions, with the ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to participate in pair programming, knowledge sharing, or structured peer learning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applied to complex, regulated production systems.
• Experience in environments governed by FDA requirements, SOX controls, CLIA, or HIPAA. Regulated-domain experience is preferred, not required.

Training and Operational Expectations

• All job-specific, safety, and compliance training is assigned based on job functions associated with the employee.
• May require periodic travel to other Caris sites or partner locations.
• After-hours response to emergency production issues and participation in periodic scheduled on-call rotations may be required.

Physical Demands

Ability to sit, stand, and work at a computer for extended periods.

Conditions of Employment

• Successful completion of the pre-employment process, including a criminal background check, drug screening, credit check (applicable for certain positions), and reference verification.