Alcon is seeking a Principal I, Software Engineering - Digital Health to provide hands-on experience for driving development, and maintenance of mission critical enterprise-grade Digital Health applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in multiple programming languages, web development frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms.
Requirements
- Maintain and improve existing applications for stability and performance
- Analyze and resolve defects promptly using root cause analysis
- Implement new features and enhancements aligned with business needs
- Define technical implementation and design for full-stack solutions
- Mentor team members and collaborate with Architects, Product Managers and Program Managers
- Build scalable, secure applications using Java, Spring Boot, and modern front-end frameworks (React/Angular)
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices
- Integrate front-end components with back-end services for seamless user experience
- Implement observability measures and performance monitoring
- Create and maintain DataDog or New Relic dashboards for application health and metrics
- Ensure smooth handover to Cloud Operations with proper documentation and monitoring setup
- Cross functional impact analysis
- Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and regression testing
- Optimize application performance
- Work closely with Development team, QA engineers, and DevOps teams
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Structured problemāsolving, validating with data, and converge on fixes
- Ability to translate product goals into measurable engineering outcomes and prioritize tradeoffs
- Deep expertise in C++, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs
- Frontāend experience with React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3
- Cloud & platform skills: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway), Redis, RabbitMQ
- Observability: handsāon with DataDog, New Relic (dashboards, monitors, APM, logs)
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong problemāsolving, communication, and stakeholder management
Benefits
- Benefit from a growing, innovative environment
- Sharpen your current skills and gain exposure within different areas of the business
- Join Alconās mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives!
