Senior Software Engineer - Catalyst Team (Patient Care Systems)

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world.

From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity — helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care.

Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale.

If you want to build technology that truly matters — where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays — join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day

Come for a job, stay for a career!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Catalyst Team you will provide technical leadership in advancing software verification, test automation, and DevOps capabilities that support our connected cardiac care ecosystem.

The Catalyst team develops and enhances test automation and tooling solutions leveraging technologies such as Appium and internal frameworks to improve testing efficiency, reliability, and scalability across the CRM software ecosystem.

In this role, you will design and build scalable automation frameworks, influence engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with R&D, software engineering, and quality partners to improve software quality, delivery predictability, and compliance in a regulated medical device environment.

A Day in The Life Of:

In general, the following responsibilities apply to the Senior Software Engineer role, including but not limited to:

• Design, develop, and maintain automation tools and frameworks supporting software verification.
• Lead and expand system‑level test automation capabilities.
• Design and evolve CI/CD automation to improve reliability, scalability, and execution speed.
• Define and implement quality metrics and dashboards to improve predictability and outcomes.
• Partner with R&D and Quality teams to define verification strategies that accelerate development while meeting regulatory requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement using lean principles to improve quality, speed, and productivity.
• Support test infrastructure setup, validation, and ongoing maintenance.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a collaborative, learning‑focused team environment.

Leadership & Influence

• Act as a technical leader influencing automation strategy, tooling decisions, and engineering best practices.
• Drive alignment across engineering, quality, and DevOps teams in a matrixed organization.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to peers and leaders.

Technical Depth & Innovation

• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to support code development, refactoring, automation, and troubleshooting—applying strong judgment to validate outputs
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and support parallel and distributed test execution
• Apply system integration, risk‑based testing, and test evidence generation practices to support quality and compliance.

Key Skills & Experience  

Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Software Verification and/or Test Systems Development, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant technical experience.

Nice to Have Qualifications

• Experience with software and system‑level testing.
• Proficiency with C#, and .NET.
• Experience with Appium or other automation testing frameworks.
• Experience working with XML and JSON.
• Experience automating iOS and/or Android applications.
• Familiarity with regulated product development and standards such as ISO 13485, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, and 21 CFR 820.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Test‑Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation skills.

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Ireland: 62,320.00 EUR - 93,480.00 EUR |  

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here