Alphatec Spine
Principal Software Engineer
Carlsbad, California, United States · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- The Principal Software Engineer serves as a trusted technical advisor, mentors engineers, and helps shape the long-term evolution of the software organization.
- Translate clinical workflows, customer feedback, and business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Expected Impact Defines the technical direction for major software platforms and future product generations.
Responsibilities
- Essential Duties and Responsibilities Define and drive the long-term software architecture and technical roadmap across multiple product releases.
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of complex software systems and critical technical initiatives.
- Solve the organization's most challenging technical problems through hands-on engineering, system design, and root cause analysis.
- Establish and promote software engineering best practices, including software architecture, design patterns, code quality, testing, automation, and CI/CD.
- Mentor and coach software engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive technical alignment across Software, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Test Engineering, Clinical, Quality, Regulatory, and Product Management.
- Lead technical planning and influence engineering decisions that improve product quality, development efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify and drive platform investments, reusable frameworks, and engineering tools that improve productivity across teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovations that support future product capabilities.
- Support product development through participation in system integration, surgeon labs, field observations, and clinical evaluations.
Requirements
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required.
- Master's degree or advanced technical degree is a plus.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership on complex software systems.
Compensation
- Alphatec Spine, Inc. complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate's qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $210,000 - $240,000 Full-Time Annual Salary
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, ATEC Spine does not sponsor employment visas for this position
This listing is sourced directly from Alphatec Spine's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.