Lead, Software Engineer

Description

Position at WebMD

WebMD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

As a Lead Engineer focused on the clinical health domain, you will play an important leadership role in the success of our development teams. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you'll be a software leader for an organization delivering life-saving educational materials to patients before and after clinical and hospital visits. As part of a friendly, collaborative, talented team, you'll help guide significant efforts on our core platforms, including extending our EHR integration capabilities, providing technical leadership on new strategic initiatives, and crafting strategies for getting the right content to the right users at the right time.

You will collaborate with product, design, technology, and data science colleagues to produce new applications and improve existing applications. You will guide a development team in developing product prototypes and create technical documentation relating to application development. You will review PRs for your team, assist architects in evaluating application technologies, and recommend best practices based on the situation, team, and product needs. You will mentor and train other team members in areas of software development. You will balance and teach others about the needs of code maintainability, performance, and functionality. You will contribute to our codebase with enthusiasm.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Develop solutions that add value and efficiency across systems with minimal technical debt.

• Collaborate closely with fellow developers, architects, product owners, and other stakeholders in crafting optimal solutions to product goals.

• Support your team in delivering code with a Test First mentality and a heavy focus on quality at the code level.

• Help your team break down product requirements into actionable technical work.

• Stay informed on technology trends and product roadmaps to inform and guide your development team.

• Support the development of cross-functional business processes.

• Work with other Lead Engineers to ensure best practices, cross-team collaboration, and process continuity.

• Serve as a guide and mentor to junior developers as they grow in their skills and experience.

• Foster a culture of collaboration with engineering teams in Asia, Latin America, and the United States. 

Experience you will have:

• Leading teams, even if you didn’t have the title

• Deep experience in the development of clinical healthcare-related enterprise solutions

• Extensive experience integrating with Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, eClinicalWorks, etc.

• Experienced in navigating HIPAA requirements and ePHI

• Working knowledge of the FHIR standard

• C#

• .Net Framework

• .NET Core

• SQL

• Git

• Unit Testing

• RESTful web services

• Messaging & queuing

• Front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.

Bonus points for …

• Metadata and Taxonomies

• Docker/Containerization 

• GitLab/ GitHub

• PostgreSQL

Education and/or Experience:

A bachelor's degree (B. S.) in A computer-related subject area or related business field and eight (8) or more years of experience in information technology and solution delivery, or equivalent combination of education and experience in similar fields, is required. Experience working with SAAS-based solution delivery organization (preferred).

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