App Development Specialist I

Musculoskeletal Informatics Group; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Musculoskeletal Digital Innovation and Informatics (MDI²) Program within the Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine seeks an Applications Development Specialist to join a multidisciplinary team building interactive software for digital health.

You will design, test, and deploy scalable applications, contributing to translational research and delivering tools used by clinicians to improve patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related field.
• Two years of hands-on experience in application development.
• Experience with programming languages (Python).
• CS fundamentals, object-oriented architecture utilizing design patterns, analytical problem solving, testing, and debugging skills.
• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and actively contribute to team-based application development.

Responsibilities

• Researches and identifies the requirements of software application development programming needs, with an emphasis on user-facing layouts and interactive workflows.
• Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs, and implements scalable software applications across multiple digital health platforms, focusing on delivering responsive and modern user interfaces.
• Resolves problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
• Coordinates, schedules, and ensures timely delivery of development services, overseeing version control repositories, code hosting, and cloud-based application deployment workflows.
• Produces written documentation for new and existing processes, programs, code, applications, workflows, and hosting environments. Keeps software documentation and deployment procedures accurate and up to date.

Skills

Python programming

OO design patterns

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or closely related field

Tools

Django

RESTful APIs

SQL

Cloud hosting / deployment

Job description

The Musculoskeletal Digital Innovation and Informatics (MDI²) Program in the Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has an immediate opening for a motivated Applications Development Specialist to work with a multidisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, orthopedic surgeons, and computer and data scientists to develop, maintain, and deploy (design, test, debug, provide beta support, and implement) interactive software applications, platforms, and informatics systems in the field of digital health.

This opportunity is primarily focused on translational research with immediate impact on clinical care of patients with a range of musculoskeletal conditions, through publication of novel findings and development of user-centered computational tools used by clinicians.

Principal duties and responsibilities

• Researches and identifies the requirements of software application development programming needs, with an emphasis on user-facing layouts and interactive workflows.
• Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs, and implements scalable software applications across multiple digital health platforms, focusing on delivering responsive and modern user interfaces.
• Resolves problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
• Coordinates, schedules, and ensures timely delivery of development services, overseeing version control repositories, code hosting, and cloud-based application deployment workflows.
• Produces written documentation for new and existing processes, programs, code, applications, workflows, and hosting environments. Keeps software documentation and deployment procedures accurate and up to date.

Required skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related field.
• Two years of hands-on experience in application development.
• Experience with programming languages (proficiency in Python).
• CS fundamentals, object-oriented architecture utilizing design patterns, analytical problem solving, testing, and debugging skills.
• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and actively contribute to team-based application development.

Desired skills and experience

• Prior experience in development of clinical software applications.
• Experience in backend frameworks such as Django.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with relational databases (SQL).
• Experience with cloud-based hosting and deployment solutions (e.g., distributed cloud platforms, container services, or deployment orchestration tools).