The Staff Software Engineer will develop scalable systems and oversee the engineering processes while mentoring junior engineers and enhancing EHR interfaces for clinicians.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will take us beyond traditional EHR interfaces and change the lives of clinicians in how they view patient data and insights. You will build the next generation of integrations for Aledade’s flagship overlay product. You will build systems that can scale indefinitely, and surpass traditional performance, while making the interfaces for clinical data simple, expressive, and cleanly abstracted. Your interfaces will support a broad array of clinical data, from our web application, to business analytics, and artificial intelligence.
Primary Duties:
- Identify and develop scalable and performant solutions.
- Work across discipline to shape product strategy and execution.
- Develop the foundations of code architecture and quality.
- Mentor and coach engineers.
- Set and uphold the standard for engineering processes to support high-quality engineering.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required.
- 8+ years of production-level experience as an engineer building highly scalable systems.
- 4+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value.
- 4+ years of experience working with SQL or other database querying languages on large multi-table data sets.
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Experience building continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go).
Preferred KSAs:
- 8+ years experience as an engineer building full-stack web applications as part of a cross-functional team.
- 6+ years of experience working with with CSS/HTML/Javascript and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, VueJs/Ember).
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying integration apps with health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records (EHRs/EMRs).
- Experience in building chromium based apps, pluggable UIs (overlays) which work via chrome plugins / chromium apps in browsers / windows desktop.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement technical solutions for complex problems in healthcare.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers, providing guidance and support in their professional development.
- Stay abreast of the latest trends in technology and healthcare, incorporating new techniques and technologies into our solutions.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements related to healthcare software.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and feature planning sessions.
- Expertise in at least 1 server-side web technology (eg: Nodejs, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go, JVM). Python preferred.
- Experience with any web framework (Django, FastAPI, Flask etc).
- Deep understanding of the DOM and how the browser works.
- Experience with API design and development.
- Experience with cloud based technologies such as AWS, Azure or google cloud.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
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