1. Lead Developer is a member of the VHT Engineering team and is responsible for leading the design, development, and maintenance of multiple applications running both on-premise and in the cloud. As a Lead Engineer, you will work closely with the Product team to refine and estimate user stories for new application functionality, participate in deployment and production support activities for the applications in the portfolio, and play a key role in guiding and mentoring junior members of the team while enforcing best practices.

2. Responsibilities:

• Lead several medium to large sized projects with small teams. Must have superior problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages with good database and SQL skills.
• Good understanding and/or experience with API integration to enable automation across different systems.
• Represent the team and be able to speak to the architecture and the technology used to people outside of their team.
• Able to come up to speed on a new technology quickly and help others learn.
• Work in an agile environment to design, develop, and maintain multiple web-based applications running on-premise and in the cloud.
• Produce high-quality, efficient, coding standards-compliant, thoroughly tested application code and modules.
• Provide architectural guidance, input, and feedback for new applications and major enhancements of existing applications.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and solve application defects in both test and production environments.
• Lead production deployments of the applications.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior application developers.
• Work closely with Business Partners/Product Owners to refine and estimate user stories for new application functionality.
• Responsible for understanding product requirements, identifying gaps, and innovating processes to fill the gaps.
• Never shy of learning new tools, technologies, and methodologies in a rapidly evolving business.
• Familiarity with DevOps and issue tracking (we use Azure DevOps and Jira) for streamlined project management and continuous integration/deployment processes. Any exposure to these will help you in our role as a lead software developer at VHT.
• Constantly improve your skills, ensuring we deliver a high-quality product/platform. Be a mentor to others; it does not matter what their experience is, you need to be a willing teacher and learner.
• You will work closely with product/process innovation managers, support, and operations teams from time to time.
• If you have been working, you will have 7+ years of professional work experience as a Senior Software Developer or higher and should have been a valued team member.
• Must be knowledgeable regarding design patterns, design best practices, and architecture of multitier applications.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to engage with teams who may be remote.
• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in an Agile environment, preferably Scrum.
• 5+ years of professional experience with SQL in a relational database environment. You don’t need to be a SQL expert but be proficient with SQL and able to write optimally performant queries. Be able to help less experienced engineers with writing better queries. You will be responsible for ensuring optimal query performance and improving response times.
• Must have 5+ years of experience with performance measurement and optimization of (web) applications and queries.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Service Bus of some sort will be necessary.
• Experience/exposure to Healthcare IT and its HL7 and X12 EDI is a plus.