About Inspire Medical Systems 

Inspire is the first of its kind medical device designed to make a difference in the lives of those living with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). We are revolutionizing the sleep industry with our FDA-approved medical device, designed to reduce OSA severity for those who cannot tolerate or get consistent benefit from CPAP. Our focus on patient outcomes is at the core of everything we do, and our “think I can” attitude drives us to make a difference in the lives of those seeking alternative sleep apnea treatments.   

Why Join Our Fast-Growing Team 

At Inspire, we value people – your diverse experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts. We elevate voices and encourage learning opportunities to build a professional network that grows into community. We embrace a people-first culture by offering hybrid work schedules, excellent benefits, 401k matching, ESPP, flexible time off (FTO), and tuition reimbursement. 

If you’re passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and want to work with innovative technology, come be a part of our great team! 

About This Position  

Due to continued growth, we are recruiting for new Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our Digital Health team located in Minneapolis, MN.  In this role, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for our suite of Digital Health products.  This is a senior role charged with providing guidance to the development team and translating clinician, patient and business needs into world-class, cloud-based solutions.  To be successful you should be able to be comfortable both with engaging in detailed technical discussions with other highly talented engineers as well as being able to explain highly technical concepts to C-level executives and facilitate trade-off analysis and strategic decision-making.

Opportunities You Will Have In This Role

• Provide leadership and direction to teams of engineers executing the development effort including third parties.
• Determine systems software design requirements.
• Design, implement, test, debug and document integration solutions and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets the business needs, while in compliance with applicable regulations and processes.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Assure compliance with industry applicable standards for medical devices and ensure all quality system, regulatory, legal, and business requirements are met
• Create, control and store software source and executable code.
• Support Inspire customers

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in software or electrical engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of 12 years of work experience in software development
• Strong experience architecting microservices including security, design, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
• Experience leading engineering teams in an agile environment
• Experience designing, developing, and delivering innovative software technology.
• Ability to efficiently specify, code, test, and deploy high quality software
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art security architectures and implementations
• Experience developing software in .NET, C#, C, Swift, Python and other languages.

Preferred Experience:

• Master’s degree in software or electrical engineering or related field.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Experience as a Scrum Master or project technical lead
• Experience migrating from monolith style architectures to microservices
• Active implantable medical product development experience
• Experience with web application deployment using Azure Platform as a Service
• Understanding of software and/or firmware development, testing and the corresponding standards
• Understanding of usability standards and integration of them into the product development process
• Experience with manufacturing process validation activities (IQ/OQ/PQ)
• Experience with industry standards for medical devices such as ISO 14971, ISO 14708, EN 45502, ISO/IEC 60601, etc.
• Understanding of 21 CFR 820 requirements as well as ISO 13485 requirements for design, development and manufacturing

Inspire Medical Systems provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training, and social and recreational programs. Inspire Medical Systems complies with applicable laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which Inspire Medical Systems has facilities. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.

Inspire Medical Systems is an equal opportunity employer with recruitment efforts focused on ensuring a diverse workforce. Applicants with a disability that need accommodation to complete the Inspire Medical Systems application process should contact Human Resources at 844-672-4357 or email careers@inspiresleep(dot)com  

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