**Job title:** The Software Development Engineer **Your role:** + Is responsible for collaborating with the team to establish software quality goals and development practices, fostering continuous improvement and excellence in software development through stringent standards and methodologies. + Acts as the technical coach for a team or domain, being recognized and approached by team members for expertise and guidance, ensures consistent application of best practices and high standards across projects. + Sets quality goals and development practices with the team, driving continuous improvement and excellence in software development through rigorous standards and methodologies. + Integrates software components and third-party libraries into existing systems, ensuring seamless functionality and interoperability with minimal disruption. + Conducts and participates in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices to maintain code quality. + Analyzes and optimizes application performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to enhance user experience and system efficiency, ensuring the software meets performance benchmarks. + Stays current with emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating new tools and methodologies to improve development processes and product quality. + Develops software to log and store performance data, usage, errors, etc., enabling continuous monitoring of solutions and products for improved reliability and performance. + Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to define, design, and ship new features, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs. + Resolves a wide range of moderate complexity requests in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. **You're the right fit if:** **Education** Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology OR Vocational Education in Information Technology or equivalent. **Work Experience** No prior experience required with Bachelor's Degree OR minimum 4 years of experience with Vocational Education in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture, Testing and Quality Assurance or equivalent. **_Competency and Skills_** + Technical Documentation + Software Test Automation + Agile Methodology + Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) + Business Acumen + Continuous Improvement + Version Control System + Quality Specifications + Software Design + Code Reviews + Programming Languages + Debugging + API Design + API Integration + Test Driven Development (TDD) **How we work together** We believe that we are better together than apart. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office role. **About Philips** We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. * Learn more about our business. * Discover our rich and exciting history. * Learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.