Software Enginee - FHIR & Healthcare APIs

Northwell Health; Melville (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking an API-focused engineer to contribute to the broader engineering process while understanding system architecture and SDLC. The role requires coordinating multiple tasks within a team to enhance platform quality and product robustness.

Highly preferred are hands-on skills with API management, RESTful standards, security protocols (OAuth 2.0, JWT), API testing tooling, and SQL with observability using Datadog for APM and logging.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent experience.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience required.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements API solutions within a team; writes reliable, scalable code.
• Documents designs with specifications.
• Leverages NoSQL/relational databases and Azure services for data storage and messaging.
• Ensures applications perform with high capacity, responsiveness, and quality.
• Identifies and resolves issues to reduce defects.
• Keeps platform code and data organized and automated for quality.
• Mentors junior team members on design and development best practices.
• Operates with general guidance; exercises independent judgment on actions.
• Performs related duties as required under ADA.

Skills

Apigee API Management

RESTful HTTP Standards

API Security & OAuth2/JWT

API Testing Tools (Postman/SoapUI/Inso

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Insomnia

Bruno

Job description

Job Description

Provides direct input to the overall engineering process and to team meetings. Understands system architecture and the software development lifecycle in depth and be able to coordinate several tasks from a team perspective. Coordinates within a team environment is essential to work on various aspects of the platform and products, as is a devotion of collaboration to problem solve, design sophistically, and increase product quality.

Highly Preferred:

• Apigee API Management Platform Proficiency: Demonstrated experience with API proxy design and configuration, including implementation and optimization of gateway policies such as rate limiting, spike arrest, and quota enforcement, as well as advanced fault handling and error flow management.
• HTTP Protocol & RESTful Standards Expertise: Strong command of HTTP response status code interpretation and application (e.g., 2xx success, 4xx client errors, 5xx server errors), with the ability to accurately diagnose and troubleshoot API behavior across the full request/response lifecycle.
• API Security & Authentication Protocols: Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting secure access protocols, including OAuth 2.0 authorization flows, JWT token generation and validation, API key management, and basic authentication schemes within enterprise-grade API ecosystems.
• API Development & Testing Tooling: Proficiency with industry-standard GUI-based API client tools—such as Bruno, Postman, SoapUI, or Insomnia—for crafting, executing, and validating manual API requests, debugging payloads, and performing end-to-end integration testing across complex service architectures.
• SQL & Observability Platform Experience: Working knowledge of SQL for querying, analyzing, and validating data across relational databases in support of back-end service development and troubleshooting, combined with hands-on experience leveraging Datadog for application performance monitoring (APM), log aggregation, dashboard creation, and real-time alerting to ensure API reliability and operational health

Job Responsibility

• 1.Designs and develops solutions to various problems either independently or in a team environment; designs and maintains efficient code that is reliable.
• 2.Forms technical documents such as a design specification document.
• 3.Utilizes NoSQL and relational databases by integrating data storage solutions. Utilizes Azure services such as, but not limited to, Functions, Logic Apps, App Services, Containers, Cosmos DB, and event hubs. Utilizes messaging patterns (REST, AMQP, Kafka, etc.) for system-to-system communication.
• 4.Ensures applications are performing at high capacity, responsiveness, and quality.
• 5.Finds solutions to reduce issues and defects.
• 6.Maintains that the platform's code and data are organized, automated, and of high quality.
• 7.Guides junior team members by recommending software design and development opportunities/best practices.
• 8.Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action.
• 9.Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

·Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
·1-3 years of relevant experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).