SPEC ADV SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Senior Java Software Developer 3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Java Software Developer, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Working on the team’s software development efforts and interfacing with other teams to create world class software solutions for our customers.
• Creating and coding new approaches to increase quality, efficiency, and resilience in existing and new software applications.
• Implementing cloud-based enterprise software to data centers around the world using pipeline technologies.
• Determining the best software design and architecture for projects.
• Supporting our customers to achieve their goals using our software services.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited university and Ten (10) years of progressive software engineering experience focused on Java/J2EE enterprise application development.
• OR High School Diploma/GED and Fourteen (14) years of progressive software engineering experience focused on Java/J2EE enterprise application development.

AND In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• Expert-level experience designing, developing, and supporting large-scale, mission-critical, cloud-native enterprise applications.
• Deep expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices Architecture, RESTful APIs, and Event-Driven Systems.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering high-volume, highly available, distributed systems in public cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Generative AI solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents and orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building and integrating AI-powered enterprise platforms and intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience with multi‑cloud architectures and deployments across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Advanced experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Expertise with AWS services including S3, RDS PostgreSQL, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, IAM, SNS/SQS.
• Strong experience designing and implementing solutions using both SQL and NoSQL databases, including performance tuning, scalability, resiliency, and data architecture patterns.
• Expertise with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch in large-scale distributed environments.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, horizontally scalable data platforms leveraging Cassandra and other distributed database technologies.
• Expertise with asynchronous processing, event streaming, and messaging platforms, including Apache Kafka.
• Experience implementing modern DevOps and CI/CD practices using Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including Secure coding, Test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Observability and monitoring, Performance optimization, Reliability engineering.
• Proven experience leading architecture reviews, defining technical roadmaps, and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to executive, business, product, and engineering audiences.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• This position requires the successful candidate to be eligible to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card (CAC) and meet all applicable government access requirements.
• Healthcare industry experience with familiarity in HL7, FHIR, X12, EMR/EHR integrations, HIPAA‑compliant systems.
• Experience designing healthcare interoperability platforms and high‑volume transaction processing systems.
• Experience with object storage technologies, including MinIO.
• Expertise with distributed messaging and streaming technologies, including Kafka and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience implementing enterprise security frameworks, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, and Zero Trust principles.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, lead cross‑functional teams, and provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives.
• Proven track record of influencing architecture decisions and delivering innovative solutions that improve scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.

Leadership Expectations

• Serve as a senior technical leader and trusted advisor across engineering organizations.
• Lead architecture discussions and establish enterprise engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Mentor and develop engineers through coaching, code reviews, technical design guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive innovation, modernization, cloud transformation, and AI adoption strategies.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver business‑critical solutions.
• Champion engineering excellence, operational maturity, resiliency, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead complex technical initiatives from concept through production deployment while balancing business objectives, scalability, security, and maintainability requirements.

Work location

Remote.

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic.

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well‑being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

The expected compensation range for this position is $142,800 - $196,350, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience.

In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.).

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Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

About us

A new healthcare company with a rich history. With more than 70 years of delivering healthcare innovations, we continue to move the industry forward by helping to solve our customers’ biggest challenges. 20,000+ employees worldwide. Solventum relies on the courage and the boundless insights of professionals worldwide to achieve exceptional results for our customers and those who rely on them. Healthcare that leads with heart and humility starts with listening and never finishes, only evolves. As long as healthcare challenges remain unsolved, we will be here, united by empathy and a relentless belief that countless lives are improved through our work. Operations in 38 countries. Driven by our dedication to improved outcomes for all we serve, we break through by making unprecedented connections that impact lives. In more than 300 offices and facilities around the world, we work closely with customers and partners to create positive healthcare outcomes that transcend borders. To realize our shared vision, we harness diverse talents and perspectives from every background to not only address our customers' most urgent priorities but anticipate the needs of the future.