REDCap Mobile Application Developer

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: VICTR Job Summary: Mobile Application Developer - VICTR JOB SUMMARY In your role as a Mobile Application Developer, you will work on the mobile application MyCap, which is a platform developed by VUMC to capture patient reported outcomes via mobile devices. Researchers at VUMC and participating institutions use the MyCap server module to customize the MyCap mobile app to fit the specific requirements of their research project. You will also work on the REDCap Mobile App (RMA), which is a tool for data collectors needing to capture data offline, where data can be collected on the REDCap Mobile App on a mobile device or tablet and then synced back to a REDCap server. The person in this position will be a mobile developer, initially responsible for maintaining and growing the existing MyCap application and RMA powered by the Flutter cross-platform framework, using modern software engineering practices. Further down the line you will be tasked in joining the effort in planning and developing new app functionalities and complex interactions between the apps and the wider REDCap ecosystem. Our applications are continually evolving to incorporate more data sources and provide greater utility, requiring flexible software architecture and the ability to rapidly refactor/modernize. As a mobile application developer, you will work with stakeholders to define specifications, as well as collaborate with peers to integrate systems and build shared codebases. Our goal is always to produce software befitting a leading medical institution - clean, maintainable, and efficient behind the scenes; responsive, intuitive, and beautiful for the end user. We encourage you to read about the exciting things our larger informatics group is doing here: https://victr.vumc.org/victr-office-of-research-informatics/ This position work normal business hours Monday - Friday with the possibility of remote work. About the Department: The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (VICTR) is Vanderbilt’s virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Office of Research and the NIH-sponsored Clinical and Translational Service Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. VICTR functions to help researchers and clinicians do their jobs better by providing tools and support to improve the quality of research, publications, grant writing, and training for future doctors and researchers. For more information, please visit https://victr.vumc.org/.

Requirements

Strong experience with Flutter cross-platform development
Strong experience with object-oriented programming
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines
Strong experience with git-based version control systems
2 years relevant experience (Required)
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) (Required)

Nice To Haves

API programming in PHP
SQL databases and query optimization
Native (Android & iOS) mobile application development
Google Firebase
Material Design

Responsibilities

Assist in the full mobile application development lifecycle – including architecture, implementation, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement
Apply and disseminate contemporary best practices for cross-platform mobile development
Collaborate with product owners to design features and user experiences that meet the unique needs of clinical research
Work with web application teams on features and APIs to support mobile integrations