Staff Software Engineer

Job Description:

Develop and Enhance Software Solutions

• Focus on delivering well-designed, scalable, and maintainable code. Your experience in both functional and technical roles will be key here, especially in ensuring that new features align with development objectives and deliver user value.

Technical Support & Troubleshooting

• Leverage your diagnostic skills to quickly identify and address application issues, minimizing downtime and maintaining user satisfaction. Demonstrate your problem-solving approach and the tools or strategies you use for efficient troubleshooting.

Team Leadership

• Draw on your Agile experience to lead the team in sprint planning, task prioritization, and setting clear performance goals. Your leadership abilities will be crucial in guiding the team, especially during planning and milestone reviews.

Collaborate with Key Stakeholders

• Effective collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, IT, and QA is vital. Focus on how you bridge communication across teams to ensure alignment and streamline the development process, making each sprint productive and on time.

Establish High Quality Standards

• Emphasize your commitment to quality by implementing and enforcing best practices for coding standards, testing, and documentation. Your ability to mentor others in these practices will enhance team output and maintain quality across releases.

Issue Resolution

• Highlight your proactive approach to debugging and issue isolation. Ensuring a smooth user experience means prioritizing timely issue resolution, often through preventive strategies and clear debugging processes.

Maintain Standards Compliance

• Adhering to internal design, coding, and documentation standards ensures consistency across projects. Showcase your role in upholding these standards, especially how they contribute to product reliability and maintainability.

Drive the Development Lifecycle

• With experience in end-to-end development, your involvement from requirements gathering to support adds value. Collaborating with Engineering leaders, you can ensure each phase meets organizational goals and user needs.

Facilitate Effective Communication

• Your ability to communicate sprint goals, responsibilities, and timelines will be crucial. This includes being clear and objective with your team and stakeholders to minimize misunderstandings and promote efficiency.

Additional Responsibilities

• Flexibility in handling other tasks as they arise demonstrates adaptability a valuable trait in dynamic development environments.

Qualifications Breakdown

Bachelors Degree

• The position requires a degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field. Ensure that your educational background is clearly stated if it aligns with this requirement.

3+ Years of Experience Leading a Software Development Team in Agile

• If you have experience leading teams in Agile environments, highlight specific examples where you guided sprint planning, led sprint reviews, or contributed to Agile ceremonies. Emphasize how you encouraged collaboration and ensured high productivity within Agile methodologies.

10+ Years as a Full-Stack Developer

• Given your strong development experience, underscore your proficiency in both front-end and back-end technologies. Detail projects where you built or improved complex systems and applications to demonstrate versatility and depth in web and backend services.

3+ Years in Healthcare Interoperability Standards (e.g., HL7, IHE)

• If you have experience with healthcare interoperability (especially HL7, CDA, FHIR), it will be crucial to showcase it. If you don t have extensive experience in this area, emphasize your ability to quickly adapt to new standards, tools, or frameworks, and consider pursuing resources to deepen your understanding of these protocols.

Experience Facilitating HL7 v2, HL7 CDA, and FHIR Interface Mapping Discussions

• This role values candidates with expertise in facilitating technical discussions around specific healthcare interoperability standards. If you have experience in related areas, focus on your skills in leading technical discussions, guiding engineers, and collaborating on complex data mapping tasks. Alternatively, explore HL7 and FHIR resources to familiarize yourself with these standards if needed.

Languages

• C#, .NET / .NET Core, JavaScript, SQL

Frameworks

• MVC, .NET Entity Framework

Databases

• MS SQL, DynamoDB (or other NoSQL DB)

Cloud

• AWS (or equivalent cloud frameworks)

Systems and Architectures

• Comprehensive understanding of on-premise and cloud-hosted, scalable SaaS systems
• Experience with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway)

API Development

• Proficient in developing RESTful APIs (or equivalent)

Version Control

• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub

Software Design and Best Practices

• Strong understanding of software design patterns and secure coding practices

Development Methodologies

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies and release processes

Personal Attributes

• Client-focused, self-learner, and effective problem solver

Healthcare Data Integration

• Proficient in configuring and troubleshooting high-volume HL7 v2 data interfaces, including converting ADT and medical records to FHIR HL7 standards
• Strong analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills for resolving complex HL7 interface issues

Qualifacts is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.