Location: Charlestown, MA • Employer: Beth Israel Lahey Health • Type: Full-time • Shift: Day

Join the growing Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) team and make a difference in people’s lives. This role, reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering, focuses on developing, testing, updating, and supporting critical software solutions for BILH staff, clinicians, and patients.

The incumbent must demonstrate strong technical and problem-solving skills, ensuring business specifications and end-user requirements are met, and projects are delivered on time. This position requires the ability to work independently on development projects, provide effective peer support, and troubleshoot complex issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Demonstrate a solid understanding of cloud services, platforms, and best development practices (essential).
2. Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications, ensuring high code quality, performance, and scalability (essential).
3. Collaborate effectively with other team members on various projects and BILH initiatives (essential).
4. Utilize proven experience as a Java Developer, supported by a strong portfolio of Java-based applications or projects (essential).
5. Create timeframes and work schedules necessary to meet project deadlines (essential).
6. Communicate effectively with clients and other technical teams (essential).
7. Assist and train intermediate developers when necessary (essential).
8. Provide thorough code reviews for intermediate developers (essential).
9. Debug software and ensure all documentation is accurately updated (essential).
10. Provide on-call support as required (essential).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field is required.
• 5–8 years of related work experience in software development is required.
• Experience working in Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience with more than one programming language, such as: Java, Python, C#, ASP.NET, PHP, or JavaScript.
• Experience utilizing AWS and Google Cloud Platform services.
• Knowledge of relational database systems; SQL experience is a plus.
• Advanced technical computer skills specific to the functional area and related systems required for technical support.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with various SDLC methodologies.
• Experience developing software within the healthcare space.
• Experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, such as Epic or Athena.

Competencies:

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by precedents, policies, and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address highly varied, complex, and often non-recurring problems, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determine how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in English in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices, and policies, and use them in complex varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations. Resolves service issues in a timely and respectful manner.

Social/Environmental Requirements:

• Work requires close attention to task for accurate completion. Intermittent breaks do not compromise the work.
• Work requires constant response to changing circumstances and using new information to adjust approach and quickly respond to new needs.
• No substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
• Health Care Status: NHCW (No patient contact).

Sensory Requirements:

Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity <3 feet, Conversation, Telephone.

Physical Requirements:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally in carrying, lifting, pushing, pulling objects. Sitting most of the time, with walking and standing required only occasionally. This job requires constant sitting and keyboard use.

Pay Range:

$100,006.00 USD – $134,595.00 USD

The listed pay range is the annual base salary range the organization expects to pay. Actual compensation is determined based on factors including seniority, education, training, relevant experience, certifications, geography, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires all staff to be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

Job Details:

• Employment: Full-time (40 Hours/Week)
• Shift: Day
• Category: Applications
• FLSA: Exempt
• Req ID: JR87279