Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer - Rapid Clinical Prototyping

You will be part of the team that has helped define national standards for healthcare data APIs and population-scale clinical data exchange, and that has created widely adopted open-source platforms used across health systems, researchers, and technology companies. Your work will sit at the intersection of software engineering, clinical care, and data standards, where design decisions directly shape how clinicians and patients interact with health data.

This role is ideal for a JavaScript developer who enjoys moving quickly from idea to working software, values clean, maintainable systems, and wants their work to have real-world clinical impact.

• Researches and identifies the requirements of software development and application programming needs. Analyzes vendor, internally developed, and open source solutions to meet the integrated needs ranging the spectrum of artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics.
• Specifies, designs, develops, codes, tests, and implements software that support the needs of multiple projects considering the individual goals and objectives of each entity.
• Participates in leading the creation and maintenance of standards for development and software selection and makes software development process and design recommendations within the department or program and to project stakeholders.
• Provides analytical and technical guidance to team members and stakeholders. Identifies requirements, develops software design, codes, plans, and executes testing, and ensures that the software delivered meets specifications.
• Creates systems development life cycle documents and/or assists team members in the creation of project documents. Produces written documentation for new and existing processes, programs, code, applications, and workflow. Keeps software documentation accurate and up to date.
• May assist team members in software administration and maintenance, including preparing and reviewing reports for operations, senior management, and stakeholders.
• Creates all necessary documentation for code and applications and supports applications.

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline.

• 4 years of experience in a professional work environment outside of academic or educational settings or Master's in 2 years of experience.
• Professional experience with NodeJs, HTML, React, CSS, SQL and other technologies used in web development (OAuth experience is a plus)
• Strong proficiency with front-end development and data visualization using Javascript
• Background with healthcare data formats and APIs like FHIR, SMART, and HL7 v2 are a strong plus
• At least one other programming language (Python preferred)
• Comfortable doing basic system administration in a Linux environment to deploy applications
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Sharing a link to your portfolio and/or work on GitHub is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving ability, collaborative spirit, and scientific curiosity.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.