The Software Engineer, IV will maintain and extend the capabilities of our healthcare technology platform and products.

You will be part of our technology team, mentoring team members, designing new features, developing features, analyzing and resolving issues, refactoring code, and maintaining the capabilities of our highly scalable multi-tenant healthcare technology platform. As an individual contributor, you will collaborate with other members of your cross functional team, learn and teach technologies and techniques, lead by example for the team, attend and present at area tech events, and produce high quality software.

Essential Functions / Tasks / Duties / Responsibilities:

• Collaborates, as part of the development team, to create technical solutions for our software products.
• Takes ownership of old and new products: maintaining, updating
• Optimize, refactor, enhance, debug, and troubleshoot existing code
• Follow all OP best practices and coding standards
• Perform root cause analysis, and propose effective solutions for bugs in the software
• Document, Maintain, and Own technical artifacts, internal knowledge base, best practices, and templates for all integrations; bringing in industry knowledge as appropriate to improve OP’s solutions.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Understand specifications and requirements for the development/enhancements of interfaces and other types of data exchange, including but not limited to HIE standards and OP interfaces
• Writes, reviews, and debugs basic programming assignments that are well defined and include mostly debug issues.
• Protects the integrity of code: creating, submitting and utilizing tests.
• Provides transparency of work to the company.
• Transfers knowledge within the department and to other technical teams.
• Able to take a complex task and break it down into smaller pieces
• Contributes regularly to technical discussions with team leads
• Design a feature and implement the design
• Architects applications and the infrastructure they run on
• Mentors developers and interns
• Can lead the team while lead is on PTO
• Educates department on emerging technologies and how to integrate internally
• Prototypes and tests the validity of new ideas and projects before handing them off

Competencies

• Expert in the following development languages: Java, React JS. Experience using Delphi preferred.
• Expert database skills (MySQL Mongo DB)
• Effective building unit test and using unit test frameworks
• Worked with AWS capabilities and services
• Expert understanding of version control systems like GIT or Subversion
• Working knowledge with SCM and IDEs
• In depth understanding of software documentation including markdown
• Proficient in Health IT standards and protocols, including but not limited to FHIR, HL7, CCDA, and X12
• Expert knowledge of networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, REST...)
• Strong communication skills
• Able to work independently, able to succeed in a fast-paced agile environment
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple simultaneous engagements
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with experience to troubleshoot and to resolve problems
• Ability to analyze complex information sets and communicate that information in a clear well thought out and well laid out manner
• Proven record of delivering high quality software and solutions that meets business needs
• Ability to lead a project from design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance phases
• Demonstrable experience designing, building, and maintaining interface integrations based on HIE and OP standards
• Referenceable experience being an individual contributor in a fast paced team based environment
• History of exemplary performance and personal integrity
• Deep understanding of the software lifecycle and the ability to support the life cycle
• Able to mentor the rest of the team
• Able to lead design of new features and guide into production
• Able to design a micro web service from start to deployment
• Able to design and enhance new features
• Able to manage CI/CD to maintain unit and functional tests

Education / Professional Certifications or Licenses Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

Experience Requirements: 

• Generally 8 or more years of related experience.
• 4 years experience using React and Java 17 or above
• Healthcare IT experience strongly preferred

Supervisory responsibilities:

• Able to supervise interns and teach them best practices.

Work Environment / Physical demands/ Travel Requirements:

• One in-person interview will be required as part of the hiring process. Occasional travel to our corporate office for team meetings will be required.
• Office type work, extended periods of sitting, standing and walking. Lifting up to 10 pounds. Telephone and computer work equipment used to perform jobs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: 

Our company is committed to equal employment opportunity.  We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis [“protected class”] including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, ancestry, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, non-job related handicap or disability, or the use of a guide or support animal, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age [18 and over] - [40 or over], physical or mental disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, marital status, protected action, concerted activity, or any other protected class under federal, state or local law.  You may discuss equal employment opportunity related questions with your supervisor or any other member of management.

Americans with Disabilities Act Statement: 

Our company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities, which may include providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate.  In general, it is your responsibility to notify your supervisor of the need for accommodation.  Upon doing so, your supervisor may ask you for your input or the type of accommodation you believe may be necessary or the functional limitations caused by your disability.  Also, when appropriate, we may need your permission to obtain additional information from your physician or other medical or rehabilitation professionals.