Principal Software Engineer - 6 months contract in City of Westminster

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

Medtronic Digital Technologies is creating ambitious new products that bring connectivity, real-time guidance, and decision support to the operating room. To support this mission, we are developing compact, high-performance, embedded systems that enable edge computing and connectivity. Working closely with other teams across Medtronic, we are creating a connected ecosystem and leveraging the state of the art in computer vision to provide the most comprehensive view of surgery. If you are interested in using cutting-edge technology to improve the standard of care in surgery on a global scale, this could be the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end technical design for complex, high-ambiguity projects.
• Partner with system engineers to transform broad goals into actionable technical requirements.
• Conduct architectural reviews, identify risks, and define mitigation strategies.
• Provide technical mentorship to team members.
• Promote high engineering standards - ensuring clarity, scalability, and maintainability in all designs.
• Collaborate across disciplines to align technical direction with business objectives.
• Write code regularly - building prototypes, implementing critical features, and contributing to the codebase while providing architectural guidance.
• Create exceptional technical documentation - capturing architectural decisions, design rationale, and system context with the clarity and depth needed for future teams to own, extend, and troubleshoot the system independently.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend or systems engineering experience with strong Python proficiency.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production, with deep understanding of architectural trade-offs involving performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), databases, APIs, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong focus on quality assurance, including testing strategies, code review practices, and system reliability.
• Proven ability to take full ownership of complex technical projects from design through production, including proactively identifying risks, driving solutions, and taking accountability for outcomes.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across cross-functional teams, with strong ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate productive discussions with both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated mentorship and collaborative leadership skills, creating environments where team members feel safe to raise concerns, learn from mistakes, and grow their capabilities.
• Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, including making progress with incomplete information, breaking down complex problems, and adapting approach as requirements evolve.
• Excellent documentation skills and experience with knowledge transfer for project handovers.

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.

Our commitments

• We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.
• We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
• This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will: Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world.
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities.
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.
• Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world. Here, it is about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You are shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

Equality and Accommodation

This is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Travel and Location

Must be willing to commute to London 2 to 3 days per week.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. Pay range for the United Kingdom: 95,200.00 GBP - 142,800.00 GBP.