Principal Engineer, Clinical Software

Waters is looking for a Principal Software Engineer for to join our Clinical Systems Development Software team.

As a Principal Engineer, you will act as a technical leader, working within and across teams, to evangelize new ideas and technologies, create prototypes, drive project work, generate required deliverables and help deliver roadmap goals.

Clinical Systems Development is a new team being created to develop Waters Clinical and IVD Systems, Hardware and Software. This is a great opportunity to join a growing team, with a mission to deliver customer benefit in the clinical market segment through the evaluation, development and deployment of innovative clinical system capabilities.

By joining the Clinical Systems Development team, you'll create software used by scientists and clinical environments worldwide for scientific analysis. You'll be part of a diverse and multi-disciplined team which includes software developers, testers, R&D engineers and development scientists.

Don't worry if you don't have a scientific background or don't match all of the skills or technologies. We're looking for talented software engineers with a passion for good software development and making great products. 

We work on a hybrid model at Waters Wilmslow, 3 days on site and 2 days at home.

What can we offer you?

• A plan for your personal development in your own area of specialism, pursuing this with the support of your manager to undertake the training and learning to progress
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid approach
• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Private health and dental insurance
• Contributory based pension scheme
• Subsidized membership of onsite gym
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Your main responsibilities would include:

• Software development across our technology stack
• Working collaboratively as part of a cross discipline agile team to deliver software for Waters Clinical Systems.
• Contributing to team and project continuous improvement activities
• Collaborating with software test engineers to improve product quality.
• Building strong working relationships with other departments.
• Contributing to continuous integration and delivery frameworks and approaches
• Continual learning, to stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and technologies in software development
• Involvement with activities that enable regulatory compliance

We are looking for passionate software engineers who enjoy solving problems and exploring opportunities to innovate, and who love creating great products.

We'd love to hear from you if you also have some of the following:

• Proven software development experience, ideally with exposure to elements such as: C++, C#, .NET, Angular (or an alternative modern JavaScript Framework), TypeScript.
• Practical experience of knowledge of good software engineering practices (e.g. Unit Testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID)

• Proven ability to work as part of a team.

• Ability to analyse and solve problems.

• Excellent communication and team working skills

The following criteria are desirable, but are not essential since training will be provided for you:

• Agile software development for iterative product delivery
• Continuous delivery pipelines
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlow
• Atlassian Jira, Bamboo, Confluence & JFrog Artifactory
• Software security implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)
• Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices)

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.