Senior Software Engineer

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Education benefit

Competitive pay and benefits

Job summary

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora is seeking a Senior Software Engineer responsible for full lifecycle analysis, design and applications programming for enterprise systems, data warehouses, and reporting. The role includes designing, testing, implementing and maintaining software solutions and may involve lead work over junior staff.

The position requires collaboration with multiple teams and participates in an on-call rotation approximately six weeks per year, with after-hours go-live

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree required.
• Five years of related experience required.
• Equivalency: combination of education, certifications, and/or experience may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
• Preferred: ASP.NET, C#, Node.js, React; Azure experience; AI code generation tools; experience with AI/RAG solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs software applications, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes.
• Develops and maintains coding standards, principles and practices.
• Troubleshoots complex performance and availability problems and consults with end users and IT staff.
• Designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, and prepares flow charts for systems; may assist lower level developers.
• Acts as a technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis; oversees test data and debugging.
• Participates in Production Support on-call rotation; supports after-hours go-live events to minimize production impact.
• Prepares timelines, project plans and flow charts for development or enhancements.
• Provides enterprise-level design guidance and collaborates with teams to meet requirements and ensure maintainability.

Skills

ASP.NET

C#

Node.js

React

Azure

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Azure DevOps

Job description

Location: Aurora

Position Type: Regular

Estimated Close Date: 09/06/2026

The Software Engineer Senior is responsible for full performance complex systems analysis, design and applications programming for single and multiple information systems, software applications, architectures, data warehouses, databases, and data extraction and reporting. Duties include designing, planning, testing, implementing, maintenance, problem solving, documenting, and developing software code, standards, principles and practices. This position may perform lead work over lower level staff.

Department: Software Engineering/Hybrid
Status: Regular, Salaried
Please note, the team rotates on a week of on-call support for the applications that we develop. There are also times in which after hours go-live support is needed in order to ensure that maintenance does not impact our production users. Support rotation approximately 6 weeks per year.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs new or existing software applications, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes, as applicable.
• Recommends, develops, documents and maintains software coding and development standards, principles and practices.
• Troubleshoots complex performance and system availability problems ensuring quality of the enterprise application and/or data warehouse. Consults with end users and information technology staff to identify user problems.
• Designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, and prepares flow charts for both new and existing systems. May assist lower level developers in the development of complex applications and coding.
• Serves as a technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts. Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.
• Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary
• Prepares time lines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing software application programs.
• Provides enterprise level application design guidance and consultation. Collaborates with development team, business intelligence, manager, customers and project managers to develop requirements, applications, systems, data warehouse and database requirements to meet organizational and end user needs. Provides recommendations regarding configuration, design, usability and maintainability for services, applications, interfaces and other dependencies that integrate with platforms.
• Gathers, analyzes and documents complex business and user requirements, functional requirements and data specifications.
• Designs, writes and documents technical specifications to design or redesign complex applications.
• Collaborates with applications staff and users of information systems to evaluate, plan, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain application development efforts and/or reports. Works with applications staff to translate and document user needs and system requirements into report specification and/or techinical documents. Integrates data between multiple systems for reporting as necessary.
• Performs database tuning and configuring; developing backup and recovery processes, repeatable methods to refresh non-production environments from production, data life-cycle management, and system upgrades. Writes stored procedures, packages, and functions.
• Designs and develops complex processes required to extract, transform, cleanse and load data into the enterprise data warehouse and data marts. Develops solutions to address data warehouse query performance and quality issues including data profiling, development, enhancement, and technical standards. Ensures reporting systems are maintained, and supported during system and database upgrades and modifications.
• Recommends, develops and creates peripheral technologies and IT processes in support of application platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor of Science
• Experience
  • Five (5) years of related experience is required.
• Equivalency
  • Combination of post-high school education, job related certification, and/or related experience equivalent to nine (9) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
• Preferences
  • Familiarity with specific coding languages such as ASP.NET, C#, Node.js, and React.
  • Experience building solutions in Azure.
  • Familiar with AI Code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
  • Experience building AI solutions such as systems that leverage Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $109,636.42 to $164,454.63

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date.

Colorado Residents

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.