Senior Full Stack Developer

University of Maryland Medical System; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 113,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Maryland Medical System seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead development across clinical, operational, and strategic priorities. You will guide end-to-end software delivery, collaborate with clients and PMs to define requirements, and ensure robust integrations with back-end services and databases.

Responsibilities include building scalable API services, front-end features, and mobile-friendly applications while maintaining code quality and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computing or related field required or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years hands-on software development experience.
• Strong front-end development experience and mobile/responsive UI.
• Experience with healthcare data/HL7/FHIR preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads software engineering efforts to devise and develop software solutions addressing health system priorities.
• Participates in full lifecycle: estimation, design, development, testing, deployment.
• Collaborates with teams and product managers to ideate software solutions.
• Develops and maintains core API services and integrations with front-end clients and third-party systems.
• Ensures secure, reliable, scalable backend services and data integrations.
• Mentors staff and escalates delivery impediments and risks as needed.

Skills

Team leadership

Full stack development

REST API design

React/Angular

JavaScript/Python

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Docker

Ansible/Puppet/Chef

Job description

• Leads software engineering efforts to devise and develop creative, pragmatic and transformational software and technology solutions that address the clinical, operational, and strategic priorities of the health system.
• Participates in the full development lifecycle, including estimation, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborates with project team and clients to understand the requirements and acceptance criteria; Works with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Ensures seamless integrations with back-end services and databases.
• Analyzes data processing requirements to plan databases and web applications that will provide system capabilities required for projected workloads.
• Plans layout and installation of new databases/programs or modification of existing databases/programs: Develops programs for workflow charts or diagrams, considering factors such as computer storage capacity and speed, peripheral equipment, and intended use of output data.
• Plans, develops, tests, and documents computer programs, applying knowledge of programming techniques and computer systems: Evaluates user, business partner, and service provider requests for new or modified programs to determine feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current system, and computer capabilities.
• Reviews computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested changes to system are possible.
• Develops and maintains core API services and integrations with front-end clients, data layers, and third-party systems.
• Uses modern programming languages and frameworks to build applications and services that are reliable, maintainable, and performant.
• Builds the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Builds features and mobile applications with a mobile responsive design.
• Ensures systems are well-structured, tested, and secure; tests software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.
• Contributes to the development team on code quality, development workflow, test strategy, test coverage, and best practices.
• Researches new technologies to align with project requirements.
• Mentors staff Full Stack Developers, Data Integration Developers, and Data Engineers on problem solving techniques as well as skills development; ensures appropriate knowledge transfer at appropriate intervals to develop depth and breadth of knowledge throughout the team.
• Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the project development and initiatives.

Job Requirements

• Leads software engineering efforts to devise and develop creative, pragmatic and transformational software and technology solutions that address the clinical, operational, and strategic priorities of the health system.
• Participates in the full development lifecycle, including estimation, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborates with project team and clients to understand the requirements and acceptance criteria; Works with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Ensures seamless integrations with back-end services and databases.
• Analyzes data processing requirements to plan databases and web applications that will provide system capabilities required for projected workloads.
• Plans layout and installation of new databases/programs or modification of existing databases/programs: Develops programs for workflow charts or diagrams, considering factors such as computer storage capacity and speed, peripheral equipment, and intended use of output data.
• Plans, develops, tests, and documents computer programs, applying knowledge of programming techniques and computer systems: Evaluates user, business partner, and service provider requests for new or modified programs to determine feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current system, and computer capabilities.
• Reviews computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested changes to system are possible.
• Develops and maintains core API services and integrations with front-end clients, data layers, and third-party systems.
• Uses modern programming languages and frameworks to build applications and services that are reliable, maintainable, and performant.
• Builds the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Builds features and mobile applications with a mobile responsive design.
• Ensures systems are well-structured, tested, and secure; tests software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.
• Contributes to the development team on code quality, development workflow, test strategy, test coverage, and best practices.
• Researches new technologies to align with project requirements.
• Mentors staff Full Stack Developers, Data Integration Developers, and Data Engineers on problem solving techniques as well as skills development; ensures appropriate knowledge transfer at appropriate intervals to develop depth and breadth of knowledge throughout the team.
• Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the project development and initiatives.

Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences or closely related field or equivalent related professional experience is required.
• 7+ years of hands-on software development and programming experience with knowledge of application, data and architecture design patterns and principles.
• Solid understanding and 7+ years of experience with front-end application development and/or mobile (and/or mobile-responsive) application development.
• 5+ years of experience with the healthcare space including HL7/FHIR, Electronic Health Records preferred.
• 5+ years of experience developing rich, classy and sophisticated web UI based on popular javascript framework libraries such as React or Angular; strong experience with data-intensive web applications.
• 7+ years of experience with scripting languages mainly Python or JavaScript (such as Node.js).
• 7+ years of experience in integrations with back-end services and databases.
• 5+ years of experience with REST API design, development and documentation.
• 3+ years of experience with build and integration tools, including knowledge of Jenkins, CircleCI, Git (Gitlab/ Github), JIRA, Docker, andAnsible/ Puppet/Chef.
• 5+ years of RDBMS experience in at least two of the following: PostgreS/MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle.

Benefits

Pay Range: $54.42 - $81.64

Other Compensation (if Applicable)

Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide