Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (HL7/FHIR)

R37 Lab, R1 RCM•Austin, TX

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

As our Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering team and apply advanced technical knowledge, broad knowledge of software engineering best practices, problem-solving, and creativity to build and maintain software products that achieve technical, business, and customer experience goals. To thrive in this role, you must have the ability and willingness to mentor and develop junior software engineers, and act as a thought leader and trusted subject-matter expert in a variety of technical domains. Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders. Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices. Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance. Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories. Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments. Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative. Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field
10+ years of experience in software/data engineering experience
5+ years of experience in a thought leadership role
Advanced knowledge of general engineering concepts, such as design patterns, with a focus on Big Data
Advanced understanding of Apache Spark, Python, Scala, and Databricks
Extensive experience with cloud environments, including Azure, GCP or AWS
Web services standards and related technology knowledge (XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, Rest.)
Understanding of modern software development, including version control, unit testing, and continuous integration & deployment
Healthcare technology industry experience
Agile development experience
Strong communication skills, with proven ability to present complex ideas and to document concisely

Nice To Haves

Preferable experience working with clinical data, understanding the full life cycle of claims
Relevant experience with Epic, FHIR, and HL7

Responsibilities

Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.
Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices.
Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance.
Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories.
Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments.
Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative.
Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.