Senior Software Engineer, Integrations

Summary

Join CareMessage, a technology non-profit, as a Senior Software Engineer on our Integrations team! You will play a pivotal role in expanding healthcare interoperability development by building integrations with leading EHRs. Collaborate with various teams and customers to understand their needs and develop interfaces connecting the CareMessage platform with external systems. This role requires a minimum of 4 years of hands-on software engineering experience with JavaScript and another language, including 3 years in healthcare integrations using FHIR and HL7. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with exceptional programming fundamentals and strong communication skills, thriving in remote environments. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including flexible work hours, paid parental leave, generous health insurance, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on software engineering experience with JavaScript and one other programming language with at least 3 years of that experience in developing healthcare integrations leveraging common interoperability standards (FHIR and HL7)
• Exceptional fundamentals of computer programming, including a good understanding of software development lifecycle, coding best practices, design patterns, object-oriented architecture, etc
• A commitment to supporting and fostering diversity and inclusion (We have a global team and you will regularly collaborate with people from a variety of walks of life)
• This role requires the candidate to reside within the United States of America
• Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated ability to autonomously drive the delivery of long-term initiatives
• Growth-oriented mindset
• Communication Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, especially in fully remote environments
• Project Management: Effective project management skills, with emphasis on the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical partners to lead discovery, development, and testing phases of integration development
• Strong experience working remotely

Responsibilities

• Leveraging a deep understanding of our company objectives and technical strategy, you will work with the team to define effective approaches to impacting the current and future workflows of safety-net healthcare providers and the patients that they support
• You will lead communication with customers, partners, and other external technical resources to understand the integration requirements and implementation details of those workflows and design effective solutions
• You will design, build, and maintain integrations in Rhapsody (Javascript) following engineering best practices
• Working with the rest of the team, you will develop and expand upon scalable architecture for healthcare integrations
• You will provide technical training for integrations you develop to assure capabilities for support teams to monitor and troubleshoot integrations, and you will assist in measuring impact of live integrations
• You will work closely with Product teams to conceptualize and define impactful solutions, often through Product Requirements Documents (PRDs)
• You will help improve the team over time through essential team rituals, such as Kickoffs, Retrospectives, and Tech Debt Reviews
• You will contribute to the team by participating in On-Call (PagerDuty) activities
• Have a working familiarity with CareMessage’s features and the API
• Understand the Rhapsody Development Environment and our SDLC
• Learn and follow CareMessage's integration engineering standards, coding best practices and development processes
• Establish rapport with engineers on the team through Wiki contributions, 1:1s, Team Rituals, etc
• Be self-sufficient in completing tasks and have delivered upon Integration projects with wide-ranging impact
• Gain a strong understanding of our technical environment and identify areas for growth in our processes, systems and/or tooling
• Understand our Company Objectives and be able to articulate how Integrations directly impacts them
• Be noted as a technical leader by your peers and manager having developed strong trust and rapport with them
• Have end-to-end ownership of the implementation of multiple integration projects
• Contribute your expertise in one or more areas that drive value and impact within our engineering department (e.g., API improvements, automated testing strategies, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with mainstream EHRs such as Epic, eClinicalWorks, AthenaHealth, NextGen, etc
• Experience with our Tech Stack: Rhapsody, JavaScript/TypeScript/React, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GCP
• Experience with Mirth and/or Rhapsody Integration Engine (we use Rhapsody)
• Background in TDD engineering environments
• Experience working closely with data teams, leveraging healthcare data and foundational data science concepts

Benefits

• Flexible work hours; fully remote team
• We believe in equal work for equal pay: all team members performing the same role at the same level are paid similarly, regardless of where they are in the world
• Paid parental leave for biological and adopted children
• Half-day Fridays, every Friday
• 18 paid company holidays, including a one week mid-year and one week end-of-year break
• 9 wellness days to be used for self-care- or anything that comes up in life
• 15 days of PTO
• 1-month (20 working days) paid sabbatical after the 4-year anniversary, and every 4 years thereafter
• Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• $100 per employee yearly wellness budget, with flexibility to spend on physical, emotional, and mental wellness resources
• PerkSpot: Instant access to discounts on products & services from hundreds of vendors
• Annual budget for professional and personal development (webinars, online courses, books, and more)
• Volunteerism incorporated in onboarding and encouraged on an ongoing basis