Software Engineer II – 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life 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’re 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 may include the following and other duties may be assigned: Own well-scoped backend and services work from design through production. Contribute to the design and implementation of larger features, services, and components in collaboration with other software engineers. Write high-quality Python code and participate actively in code reviews. Improve the testability, observability, reliability, and maintainability. Apply established engineering standards and contribute to improving them, with a focus on clarity, scalability, and maintainability. Collaborate with product, systems, QA, clinical/domain, and engineering partners to deliver reliable solutions. Document technical decisions, interfaces, operational procedures, and relevant system context to support maintenance and handover. Required Knowledge and Experience: 4+ years of professional backend development experience, primarily using Python. Demonstrated commitment to software quality through effective code reviews and writing and maintaining unit, integration, and API-level tests using pytest. Strong hands-on experience with Django and Django REST Framework, including building and maintaining production services. Practical experience designing and evolving REST APIs, including validation, error handling, versioning, and backward compatibility. Ability to work effectively with ambiguity: clarifying requirements, breaking down complex problems, making progress with incomplete information, and adapting as requirements evolve. Ability to produce clear technical documentation and contribute effectively to knowledge transfer and project handovers. Must be willing to commute to London 2 to 3 days per week. Interest in AI-assisted or agentic coding workflows, with good judgment around code review, testing, and responsible use of generated code; product experience with agentic coding tools is a plus.   Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.  ‌ Recruitment Fraud Alert   We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind:  Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.  Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.  If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.  If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a