Position Summary:
The candidate is a Backend Software Engineer with a wide-ranging knowledge of application development and experience working with application support. The primary focus of this role is the design, development, and maintenance of APIs that power our healthcare data products, including some aspects of data delivery for the same product. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and maintaining highly scalable, reliable, and secure API services that support our applications. This role will report directly to the Engineering Manager of Precision AQ, India. This person will also work collaboratively with both product and operations team members to support execution of the technology strategy for the development of both products and platform.
Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:
- Represents the Application Operations / Development team on all active projects.
- Participates in the daily application operations / development stand-up meetings.
- Supports data delivery for the clients subscribed to the product
- Follows established procedures for change management across applications where changes are necessary.
- Documents and maintains the application operations / development standard operating procedures.
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful API services that support the needs of our healthcare data products and platform.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that meets the industry standards and best practices.
- Ensure that the API services are scalable, reliable, and secure by implementing appropriate monitoring, testing, and security measures.
- Identify and troubleshoot issues related to API services, databases, and other backend systems.
- Work closely with other engineers and stakeholders to develop and deliver high-quality software solutions
- Support assessments of internal systems and process, including revisions or re-design where necessary
- Support technology reviews assessing how common code and technologies can work efficiently across service lines
- Support continued adoption of cutting-edge technology, through both new offerings and realizing the full value from existing providers and tools
Future functions of the job include but are not limited to:
- Work with the Product Team to support, implement new application enhancements and features.
- Ensures all application changes are made in accordance with life-cycle methodology and risk guidelines.
- Interact with end users, internal users, development vendors, data analysts, and other engagement team members.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (B.E.) or in Technology (B. Tech.). Degree in computer science or related fields preferred.
Minimum Required
- 2-4 years of experience in related field and working as an application engineer/developer (level 1/2)
- Strong knowledge of programming languages such as Node.js (Javascript, Typescript).
- Strong grasp on GIT fundamentals and experience with day-to-day usage
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services, especially API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, and EC2
- Hands on knowledge of the following tools and technologies: HTML, CSS, React.js
- Has implemented an end-to-end project (backend applications)
- Hands on experience with databases such as Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS (preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with RESTful API design and implementation
Other Required:
- May require travel domestically and/or internationally including overnight stays up to 5%”
Preferred:
- Experience with Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipeline tool
- Experience deploying code through Serverless
- Familiarity with concepts like Modularization
- Experience in connecting to databases using drivers (3 – tier architecture)
- Familiarity of Data Structures concepts
- Experience with Python coding
- Familiarity with Data Modeling
- Working knowledge of US Healthcare / Market Access would be an advantage.
- Experience developing in HIPAA compliant ecosystem
Competencies:
- Communication Skills: Written, Verbal, and Presentation: The successful candidate must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret production data, financial reports, and legal documents. Excellent verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal skills including ability to clearly respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, employees, and members of the business community. Must possess a rapid agility to reply to emails, provide instructions of work stream necessities or issues encountered, business and report writings in a succinct and informative manner.
- Business Judgment and Strategic Thinking: Ability to think, act, and deliver value in the best interest of our clients with respect to common practices of the healthcare consulting field. Ability to extrapolate from the specific to the general and interpret from the general to the specific.
- Analytic Skills: Framing macro problems into action steps or work plans for resolutions. Structuring a persuasive client presentation based on in-depth or expansive excel spreadsheets. Demonstrable interpretive and solution identification skills with the ability to understand multiple types of quantitative and qualitative data heightened with strong resolution skills.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to give and receive constructive feedback and work effectively across the organization to accomplish team goals is critical. The successful candidate must possess excellent judgment, management, and conflict resolution skills. Ability to work with team members to convey results, incorporate enhancements and productionize processes across projects. Must be able to understand the dynamics of how a team interconnects and relies upon every member.
- Strategic Thinking: Conceptualize outside of the aspects of a project at hand, with an ability to visualize how the work contributes to and drives forward the overall project.
- Solutions oriented: must be able to display resourcefulness and confidence under pressure
- Resilience: must be able to look past obstacles and roadblocks, ask questions and for support, and find their way around any obstacle.
Any data provided as a part of this application will be stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy. For CA applicants, please also refer to our CA Privacy Notice.
Precision Medicine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. © 2020 Precision Medicine Group, LLC
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Precision Medicine Group at [email protected].
It has come to our attention that some individuals or organizations are reaching out to job seekers and posing as potential employers presenting enticing employment offers. We want to emphasize that these offers are not associated with our company and may be fraudulent in nature. Please note that our organization will not extend a job offer without prior communication with our recruiting team, hiring managers and a formal interview process.
Top Skills
Similar Jobs
.png)
