Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tandem Diabetes Care creates innovative solutions for people living with diabetes. The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement build infrastructure and tools for firmware delivery, while also mentoring junior team members and driving best practices across software teams.
Responsibilities
- Designs, implements, and maintains the embedded firmware build infrastructure, including build orchestration, tool chains, configuration systems, and artifact generation
- Drives adoption of industry-standard technology and best practices in build automation, configuration management, and developer tooling
- Drives a culture of continuous improvement in developer experience, engineering efficiency, and quality
- Plays an active technical leadership role in the development, modification, and testing of software units per corporate software process documents
- Establishes and enforces strong software engineering practices, concepts, and techniques across multiple software teams
- Proactively identifies opportunities in software process, discusses with peers, and implements proposals to address gaps
- Provides technical guidance to major programs and software engineering teams
- Mentors and develops junior team members
- Guides the team through strategic design and architecture decisions
- Creates, maintains, and reviews software requirements specifications, design specifications, interface descriptions, and other software documentation
- Influences software test strategy and supports validation and verification activities
- Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies, and processes
Skills
- Proficient with formal software development and test methodologies
- Proficient knowledge of embedded software architecture and design patterns
- Strong proficiency in scripting languages (Python, bash, go) for automation and developer tooling
- Substantial experience with embedded build systems and toolchains (e.g., GCC, CMake, Kconfig, Nix) for multi-target embedded platforms
- Skilled at defining and translating high-level requirements into software design and implementation
- Able to work independently and deliver high quality work product without close supervision
- Able to articulate work assignments and direct the work of team members where applicable
- Adept at seeing change as an opportunity to improve business performance and campaigning for it when necessary
- Able to effectively convey information related to work product and lead group discussions
- Demonstrated ability to lead work teams
- Able to assert own ideas and persuade others through effectively consolidating, evaluating, and presenting relevant information
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer sciences or related field or equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience
- 8 years' experience in the “C” programming language on embedded devices and real-time operating systems
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and build/test/release automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure)
- Skilled in utilizing modern AI tools in software development, strongly preferred
- Knowledge of Good Documentation Practices (GDP) preferred
- Experience in the field of embedded software for medical device software or related industry preferred
Benefits
- Bonus
- A robust benefits package
- Equipment for the role will be provided
- Training will occur virtually
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