Lead Software Engineer

Lead Developer Requirements

The 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 may work with an architect to You will works closely with the Product team to refine and estimate user stories for new application functionality, participates in deployment and production support activities for the applications in the portfolio. You will play a key role in guiding and mentoring junior members of the team while enforcing best practices for the team.

You will be responsible for :

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 requirement, identify gaps and innovate 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 7+ years 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 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 dont 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 experience with performance measurement and optimization of (web) application and queries

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Service Bus of some sort will be necessary

Experience / exposure to Healthcare IT and its HL7 and X12 EDI is a plus