Principal I, Software Engineering - Digital Health

Location: Fort Worth, Texas

Remote Type: Not applicable

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Principal I, Software Engineering you will provide hands-on experience for driving development, and maintenance of mission critical enterprise-grade Digital Health applications. This role involves hands-on experience for fixing defects, implementing enhancements, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in multiple programming languages, web development frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms in Fort Worth, TX. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Maintain and improve existing applications for stability and performance.

• Analyze and resolve defects promptly using root cause analysis.

• Implement new features and enhancements aligned with business needs.

• Define technical implementation and design for full-stack solutions.

• Hands-on Technical expertise, conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards.

• Mentor team members and collaborate with Architects, Product Managers and Program Managers.

• Build scalable, secure applications using Java, Spring Boot, and modern front-end frameworks (React/Angular).

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.

• Integrate front-end components with back-end services for seamless user experience.

• Implement observability measures and performance monitoring.

• Create and maintain DataDog or New Relic dashboards for application health and metrics.

• Ensure smooth handover to Cloud Operations with proper documentation and monitoring setup.

• Cross functional impact analysis.

• Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and regression testing.

• Optimize application performance.

• Work closely with Development team, QA engineers, and DevOps teams.

• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Structured problem‑solving, validating with data, and converge on fixes.

• Ability to translate product goals into measurable engineering outcomes and prioritize tradeoffs.

• Deep expertise in C++, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs.

• Front‑end experience with React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3.

• Cloud & platform skills: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway), Redis, RabbitMQ.

• Observability: hands‑on with DataDog, New Relic (dashboards, monitors, APM, logs)

• Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.

• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder management.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +13 yrs; Assoc.+9 yrs; M.S.+2 yrs; PhD+0 yrs)

• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English

• 5 Years of Relevant Experience

• Travel up to 10%

How You Can Thrive At Alcon:

• Benefit from a growing, innovative environment.

• Sharpen your current skills and gain exposure within different areas of the business.

• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives!

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Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.