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Position Summary Caris Life Sciences serves hundreds of thousands of molecular cases a year and continues to grow at double-digit rates. Its molecular, imaging, and clinical-outcomes data support software that helps ensure a cancer patient's report is right, complete, and on time.
The Software Engineer, Clinical Software Products contributes engineering work across Caris's clinical application portfolio: product delivery, reliability, and incremental modernization of the production systems that support regulated clinical workflows.
This assignment supports the case-management and order-intake platform: the order front door and case-lifecycle services every case runs through on its way to a report. Engineers deliver features and integrations across an actively modernizing platform, with emphasis on data integrity, controlled change, and order-to-report throughput.
The engineering environment supports advanced AI coding assistants and agentic workflows across design, implementation, and test generation. Characterization tests and golden-master replay validation provide executable evidence. Onboarding is harness-first: the engineer builds or extends characterization tests to capture current behavior as repeatable validation evidence.
Delivery runs on CI/CD, automated testing, application-level observability, and risk-based release governance aligned with current FDA Computer Software Assurance guidance. Representative technologies across the portfolio include Java, TypeScript, browser-based application frameworks, server-side JavaScript, and selected enterprise Java components. The interview process covers the specific assignment and technology stack.
Reporting to an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager within Clinical Software Engineering, this individual contributor builds and maintains clinical software applications governed by SOX financial controls and FDA regulatory requirements. The role contributes to technical delivery on an assigned product team and upholds the engineering and compliance standards those systems require.
Location: Irving, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth), on-site.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain features and components across Caris's clinical software platforms: well-structured, testable, documented code that holds up in a regulated production environment.
- Contribute to design and architecture discussions, understanding the technical options and trade-offs that inform the team's decisions.
- Give and receive peer code review, upholding code-quality standards and surfacing issues that could affect system correctness, performance, or compliance.
- Work with product management to clarify requirements, understand technical constraints, and estimate backlog items.
- Help maintain the technical record: design documents, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks that meet SOX and FDA change-control obligations.
- Instrument, monitor, and support production systems; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for production issues.
- Build automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels as first-class engineering work.
- Automate the recurring engineering and operational work that delivery turns up: repeated manual steps become scripted, reviewed automation, not standing process.
- Participate in pair programming and structured knowledge sharing with peers, escalating to senior engineers on complex architectural or compliance questions.
- Identify technical-debt and reliability concerns and propose and carry out remediation work that improves system maintainability or compliance posture.
- Work AI-first: use AI coding assistants and agentic workflows as daily practice across design, implementation, and test generation, with peer and engineering review 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 setting: requirements refinement, design, implementation, testing, and release.
- A track record of writing and maintaining automated tests for production software, at the unit, integration, or end-to-end level.
- Working proficiency in code review and in applying engineering standards to shared codebases.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic development workflows in real engineering work.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Outlook, and general working knowledge of Internet for business use.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
- Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and the tooling around them.
- Exposure to cloud-native application development and deployment patterns.
- Interest in growing into technical design and architecture discussions, with the ability to explain ideas 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.
Physical Demands
- Ability to sit, stand, and work at a computer for extended periods.
Training
- All job-specific, safety, and compliance training is assigned based on the job functions associated with this employee.
Other
- This role 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.
Conditions of Employment: Individual must successfully complete pre-employment process, which includes criminal background check, drug screening, credit check ( applicable for certain positions) and reference verification.
This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Caris Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
