The Senior Software Developer works closely with cross-functional teams to lead the investigation, design, and delivery of solutions for complex client-reported issues and platform enhancements within the Smile Digital Health platform. This role plays a critical part in maintaining highly reliable healthcare systems used in production environments, while driving technical excellence, mentoring team members, and contributing to the long-term stability and scalability of the platform.
The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can balance urgent customer needs with sustainable engineering practices, navigate ambiguity, and make sound architectural and implementation decisions across complex systems.
Responsiblities
- Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production issues impacting healthcare clients.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions within the Smile Digital Health platform.
- Drive root cause analysis efforts and implement long-term corrective actions to reduce recurring issues.
- Provide technical leadership during incident response, troubleshooting, and high-priority client escalations.
- Review, optimize, and refactor existing systems with a focus on performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices and coding standards.
- Mentor intermediate and junior developers through technical guidance, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and help guide technical direction for engineering initiatives.
- Perform risk assessments to determine potential impact of bugs on production systems.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge-sharing materials.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring, SQL, Git, and distributed systems.
- Proven experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in complex production environments.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, and maintainability principles.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and driving projects from requirements through delivery.
- Ability to analyze ambiguous problems, assess risk, and make sound technical decisions independently.
- Strong experience with debugging, observability, logging, and monitoring tools.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership experience.
- Experience working in healthcare technology, HL7, or FHIR is considered an asset.
- Experience with integration frameworks such as Apache Camel is considered an asset.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong experience with Java, Spring, SQL, Git, and distributed systems
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in complex production environments
- Understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, and maintainability principles
- Experience leading technical initiatives and driving projects from requirements through delivery
- Ability to analyze ambiguous problems, assess risk, and make independent technical decisions
- Experience with debugging, observability, logging, and monitoring tools
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams
- Mentorship and technical leadership experience
- Experience working in healthcare technology, HL7, or FHIR
- Experience with integration frameworks such as Apache Camel
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
