Senior Software Engineer

Description

Overview: 

The Sr Software Engineer should be a full stack engineer who designs and develops highly complex, enterprise-scale software applications and performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process. This role takes ownership of the development and rollout for an entire product, or large project. The role collaborates with Product team, Data Analytics team and other stakeholders, to develop the software specified in user stories and other documentation and works closely to ensure that the technology solutions meet stakeholder needs. 

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Duties: 

· Design and develop software solutions that meet customer needs.

· Ensure that software solutions developed meet the functional, conceptual, and logical design specifications.

· Assist in user stories, design, and planning sessions as appropriate.

· Write tech specs and identifies risks before starting major projects.

· Ensure that new software solutions are thoroughly tested before releasing them. 

· Monitor software version control and release management processes to endure smooth source control merges and timely deployments to all essential environments.

· Develop technical documentation for software solutions and keep it updated.

· Set standards, goes out of their way to reduce complexity.

· Perform code reviews and deployments, following set standards.

· Provide guidance and technical direction to junior staff to ensure that software solutions are designed and developed in accordance with specifications and industry best practices.

· Work with Principal Engineer and other architects to choose new technologies and promote culture/process.

· Research to evaluate and test options.

· Deliver solid and maintainable software.

· Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, life sciences, or related field or 10+ years of experience in a similar role will be considered in lieu of a degree 

• 6+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, preferably in the healthcare industry 

• 3+ years of previous working experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role 

• Working knowledge of MS Azure Dev Ops, or Jira and documentation tools – Confluence, Wiki required 

Preferred Qualifications: 

· Knowledge of all phases of SDLC and experience working as lead on project teams delivering highly complex, enterprise-scale solutions.

· Experience in at least one server-side programming language (Java, C++, C#)

· Experience in writing and consuming APIs.

· Experience with either Java/J2EE or ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework Code First.

· Exceptional knowledge of web development in at least one technology stack.

· Experience with Angular, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, or other client-side programming languages.

· Knowledgeable in data modeling, SQL queries, writing stored procedures, triggers & views.

· Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably one of the major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

· Knowledgeable in Azure Repos Git source control. 

· Experience with CI/CD

· Experience with Visual Studio or similar IDEs.

· Experience with microservices architecture.

· Knowledge of Test-Driven Development including clean code, dependency injection, unit testing, integration testing.

· Exceptional knowledge of safe coding practices and application security.

· Experience with large scale distributed systems.

· Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.

· Experience in healthcare domain

· Customer Obsession: Passion for customers and focus on delivering the right customer experience.

· Growth Mindset: Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
 

Skills and Abilities: 

• Outstanding triage and monitoring ability

• Excellent organizational and time management skills 

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills 

• Attention to detail 

• Ability to exercise sound judgment under pressure and to quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment.

• Proficient in an Agile environment.

• Strong documentation skills.

• Strong customer service skills

• Ability to conceive and implement complex, enterprise-scale technical solutions.

• Fundamental mathematical skills

• Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work independently and identify and solve problems.

• Ability to organize and prioritize work 

• Understanding of HIPAA

• Professional presence

Work Environment: 

This position is primarily remote but does operates in a professional office environment. There will be times when this role will need to work in office for critical meetings, during critical incidents or for relationship building.

Travel: 

10% travel may be required. 

Other duties: 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

Deacon Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.