The Intermediate Backend Developer works closely with engineering teams to design, implement, and maintain components of the Smile Digital Health platform. This position operates with a good degree of independence, contributing across the full development lifecycle from requirements analysis through to delivery, while developing deeper technical expertise in preparation for senior-level responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement back end application components, such as FHIR operations, primarily using Java and related technologies.
- Develop and maintain core product code, with a focus on quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Participate in code reviews, adhere to team coding standards, and contribute to improving development practices.
- Analyze requirements and propose technical solutions at various stages of development.
- Build and iterate on proof-of-concept integrations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues reported by customers or identified during testing.
- Research relevant technologies and contribute findings to the team.
- Create and maintain technical documentation.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 4+ years of professional back end development experience.
- Solid experience with Java and Spring; working knowledge of REST APIs, SQL, and Git.
- Experience with end-to-end feature development and unit testing practices.
- Ability to work independently on assigned tasks while collaborating effectively within a team.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity and contributing to technical problem solving.
- Experience creating and maintaining clear technical documentation.
- Knowledge or experience in healthcare, HL7, or FHIR is an asset.
- Experience with Apache Camel and building robust integration patterns to ensure seamless data exchange across disparate systems.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
Additional Information:
This position is a new role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
- 4+ years of professional back end development experience
- Solid experience with Java and Spring
- Working knowledge of REST APIs, SQL, and Git
- Experience with end-to-end feature development and unit testing practices
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team
- Experience creating and maintaining clear technical documentation
- Knowledge or experience in healthcare, HL7, or FHIR is an asset
- Experience with Apache Camel and building robust integration patterns
- Strong analytical and communication skills
What We Do
Smile Digital Health (doing business as Smile CDR Inc.) specializes in delivering fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures as a service to enable and empower interconnectivity for data-intensive sectors such as healthcare. We are a solutions platform helping organizations like governments, researchers, health systems, healthcare providers, and app developers build connected health solutions and products by leveraging our core expertise in health data and HL7 FHIR. Our flagship product, Smile CDR, is the world’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) as a service. Smile CDR is a high performance and secure solution built on the principles of Privacy by Design. Flexibility is a hallmark of the service as it can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises depending on your needs. The design was strongly influenced by real-world experience in both the jurisdictional and organizational setting. Smile CDR provides a rich set of features and capabilities including: -Multiple FHIR versions -FHIR Profiles -Full text indexing of clinical records -Type ahead search functionality -FHIR, HL7v2 and custom ETL for data input -Federated identity and identity provider functionality -International character locale support -Terminology services -Auditing -Smart on FHIR support -Rapid deployment -Extensive administrative tooling Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in building enterprise-class systems, our team includes experts in building integrated healthcare systems including FHIR-based solutions such as HAPI, e-prescriptions and other e-health solutions. We were motivated by the need to improve upon existing options for sharing health data within and across organizations. Smile CDR is the maintainer of HAPI FHIR, the prevailing open source reference implementation of FHIR worldwide
