Senior Software Engineer

JOB SUMMARY (added January 2024)

The Senior Engineer is a full-stack developer proficient at working in all layers of complex software applications. This engineer works on an agile product development team as a hands-on contributor and collaborator. The Senior Engineer plays an important role on their team by leading significant initiatives, establishing team best practices, guiding peers through tough challenges, and who can become the go to person for features or components of technology solutions which transform healthcare into a safer and more cost-effective industry.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Software Development

Create high quality software features and components that integrate into complex software solutions. Develop software that is logically well-structured, fulfills requirements, is readable, maintainable, testable, and performant using standard idioms and common software craftsmanship techniques. Contribute to sizing decisions and complexity evaluation for initiatives. Pair with other engineers and apply clean code techniques to produce high quality code.

Testing & Quality Assurance

Create testing strategies that include performance, security, regression, and automation testing concepts. Create appropriate unit, integration, and automated acceptance tests for features based on requirements. Create automated tests for positive and negative scenarios. Utilize test-driven development (TDD) to guide development. Coach peers on TDD and test strategy concepts.

Data Management, Infrastructure, Integrations

Devise data storage and access strategies during development work. Use knowledge of data modeling, data storage, and data transmission techniques to make appropriate design decisions. Understand the basics of ML and data analytics and can apply this knowledge to increase the business value of data through transformation. Design system integration strategies leveraging cloud and managed services during product design and development.Leverage experience with infrastructure as code concepts to design modules for reuse, container orchestration, and data migration.

Operations

Create highly dependable software features and systems through usage of operationalization development techniques such as monitoring, logging, metrics gathering, system health, and reporting. Improve operations culture of team by defining best practices, advocating for deployment automation, and influencing technology selection based on product and team needs. Manage build pipelines, write code for collecting and radiating key metrics.

Security & Compliance

Develop software with a security-first mindset using knowledge of standard security protocols and common security risks, secure coding techniques, and appropriate usage and protection of sensitive information such as PHI. Proactively identify and mitigate single-avenue threats. Implement basic security safeguards, leverage threat modeling for system-level security.

Product & User Experience

Develop software features with user experience in mind. Extend and enhance user-facing software effectively, create reusable interaction patterns, and define best practices. Translate design goals into functional user-facing implementations. Address tech and design debt based on priority.

Requirements & Design

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business context and share technical context. Write detailed technical stories which transform business context into technical specifications. Apply established architectural themes to new problem spaces and make cost-effective feature design decisions.

KNOWLEDGE & REQUIREMENTS

• Highly motivated, self-learner, and technically inquisitive
• One or more server-side programming languages (Java with Spring Boot experience preferred)
• One or more client-side programming languages (JavaScript React experience preferred)
• Experience developing, deploying, and supporting REST services and microservices
• Experience using cloud services for concepts such as storage and compute. Capable of applying infrastructure as code practices. Experience with Kubernetes and AWS preferred.
• Experience with relational databases, non-relational databases, and messaging systems.
• Provides a positive impact on team: influences team decisions, mentors peers, drives innovation
• Works well with business stakeholders. Experience proposing product features to increase product value.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Travel Requirements: Domestic and/or International, up to 25%

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum years of work experience: 6 years
• Minimum level of education or education/experience: Bachelors or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, IT

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Frequent sitting in stationary position at a desk
• Occasional standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, squatting, and climbing stairs
• Occasional twisting of body
• Occasional reaching by extending hands and arms in any direction
• Occasional lifting, pulling, or pushing