Responsibilities:
- Support the design, development, and implementation of diverse applications using web technologies.
- Create and maintain detailed technical product and end user support documentation.
- Evaluate requirements and propose high level design and technical solutions at all stages of development.
- Analyze solutions and applications to ensure that they are interoperable, performant and maintainable.
- Write high-quality and well-documented code for projects to ensure adherence to team and/or department coding standards.
- Evaluate and provide accurate estimated timelines for development requirements.
- Participate in and perform code reviews to ensure quality, proactive identification of defects, and recommend improvements.
- Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges for assigned projects.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of technologies that will be used in new and existing modules of the solution (e.g., Machine Learning frameworks, data storage and capture frameworks etc.).
- Advise and provide feedback and recommendations on quality technical design and industry trends.
- Support in complex projects for other colleagues including, but not limited to, supporting the workflow and providing expert advice and solutions to escalated and complex project challenges and roadblocks.
- Actively participate in setting and maintaining software development best practices within the department and team.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of full-cycle software development lifecycle experience. Experience in the healthcare and/or technology industry, preferred.
- Post-secondary education in computer science, computer engineering, or similar and/or equivalent work experience.
- Hands-on experience with Java and the Spring framework, building and consuming RESTful APIs, working with relational databases using SQL, and using Git for version control in collaborative development environments.
- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including continuous integration (CI) pipelines for build automation, containerization and deployment using Docker, and related DevOps practices.
- Develop middleware products, unit test practices (TDD), transaction processing
- Creating and maintaining clear technical documentation.
- Ability to maintain repositories with a focus on code health and quality.
- Experience in end-to-end feature development.
- Knowledge or experience in healthcare, HL7/ FHIR, an asset.
- Nice to have: Full-stack development experience, including front-end technologies such as Angular, JavaScript, and tools like Node.js and npm, along with a solid understanding of HTTP protocols and browser-based development.
This position is a new role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.
Skills Required
- 5+ years full-cycle software development lifecycle experience
- Post-secondary education in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Hands-on experience with Java
- Hands-on experience with the Spring framework
- Building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Working with relational databases using SQL
- Using Git for version control in collaborative development environments
- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle and CI pipelines
- Containerization and deployment using Docker
- Related DevOps practices
- Develop middleware products and transaction processing experience
- Unit test practices (TDD)
- Creating and maintaining clear technical documentation
- Ability to maintain repositories with focus on code health and quality
- Experience in end-to-end feature development
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Knowledge or experience with HL7/FHIR
- Full-stack/front-end experience (Angular, JavaScript) and Node.js/npm
- Understanding of HTTP protocols and browser-based development
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
