Staff Software Developer Jobs in Tennessee

INTRODUCTION

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Senior Staff Software Engineer.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing, testing, and deploying innovative technology and data products within the ITG Accelerated Technologies organization and DT&I. They will help us build platforms and services that enable our physicians and clinicians to provide world-class care for patients in our hospitals. Along with technical expertise, a candidate for this position should be comfortable designing and reasoning about complex distributed systems.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

This engineer can quickly learn, maintain and pragmatically improve existing solutions as well as design new ones. They will provide key problem resolutions for production systems as needed. They have an in-depth understanding of the services provided by ITG Accelerated Technologies and DT&I and can develop relationships throughout the organization to assist in accomplishing its goals for the company. This engineer strategically designs, constructs, and implements software in a software development environment. This engineer is a highly motivated self-starter and is committed to delivering high quality solutions within agreed upon timelines. They are committed to engineering excellence and comfortable working in a fast-paced complex environment. Strong application development skills are required using ReactJS, Node.js, Vue.js, NestJS TypeScript, or Python. GCP experience is preferred. Experience with AI assisted tooling such as GitHub Copilot, Lovable.dev, v0.dev, https://bolt.new/, or other Vibe Coding tools is required. Experience with healthcare data and technology is preferred.

• Build life-changing healthcare technology
• Act as a technical expert within AT and project Integrations, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing
• Provide valuable insights in requirements validation and feasibility analysis with respect to AT
• Design scalable distributed software
• Clearly communicate software architecture in accordance with C4 model
• Estimate work effort required in delivering features keeping AT capabilities in mind
• Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates coding best practices and serves as an example for less experienced developers
• Design and execute DevOps strategies and processes, driving the change management which accompanies these types of transformative solutions
• Design, build and maintain automated deployment frameworks (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery)
• Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborate on solutions
• Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience in software design patterns
• Produce and review enterprise-level system design documentation, including Use Cases, Software Architecture Documentation, Service Mapping (i.e., map service schema to backend source systems), Consumer Guide (i.e., end user documentation), and transition documentation to support the team
• Create Service Level Agreements (states the agreed upon availability-uptime/downtime, maintenance windows, etc. for a Service) and Supplementary Specifications (i.e., non-functional specifications). Ensure implementations are up to current standards for coding, naming, security, and versioning
• Consult on and guide design of software solutions
• Possess deep knowledge and experience with a variety of testing methodologies and drives the adoption of best practices
• Possess excellent communication skills to interface with various stakeholders from business consumers to technical staff
• Research and become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the interaction of the Service with source systems as well as interaction with the consumers (business users)
• Lead troubleshooting activities
• Provide after hours/on-call support as needed
• Mentor other engineers
• Direct the performance of programming assignments within the department
• Develop software development standards and frameworks
• Work with Enterprise Architects on Technology Evaluation / Product Selection
• Partner with managers in Contract Negotiation / Vendor Relations
• Interview / Hiring / Performance Evaluation
• Perform other duties as assigned

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Bachelor Degree or work experience in lieu of degree
Masters Degree Preferred
7+ Years Relevant Work Experience Required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, BEHAVIORS

Technology Experience: 7+ years of experience in most of the following:

We are looking for experts in these areas. If you don’t have experience in some of these, you are able to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team that builds Data Science signal delivery, data pipeline, and DevOps infrastructure.

• Experience with cloud development technologies, especially Google Cloud Platform
• Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, especially Python and SQL required
• Data engineering experience includes architecture for ingesting, transforming, and feature engineering data elements used for data science and machine learning
• Deep understanding of streaming and event driven architectures
• Strong understanding of best practices in the design of REST-based APIs
• Nuanced understanding of distributed version control
• Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing required
• Detailed understanding of DevOps practices and extensive experience with associated tools
• Extensive experience and deep understanding of container-based platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Run
• Extensive Experience with container monitoring applications such as monitoring solutions such as Cloud Monitoring, SysDig, Data Dog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Nagios, and Zabbix
• Understanding of data science concepts
• SQL experience / database interrogation techniques
• Linux command line skills
• Scrum, Agile, Lean Product Development, Domain Driven Design
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience and deep knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Healthcare experience, preferable

ADAPTABILITY

Treats change and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth.
Focuses on the beneficial aspects of change and speaks positively about the change to others.
Seeks to understand changes in work tasks, situations, and environment as well as the logic or basis for change.
Demonstrates the ability to help others adapt to change and to personally adapt to various work environments.

STRATEGIC WORKING RELATIONSHIP

Builds relationships within the department and across multi-disciplinary teams to assist in facilitating discussions regarding data outputs and feedback on usage activities to improve AT impact.

ADAPTABILITY - EXPECTED LEVEL OF COMPETENCY

Ability to network with corporate and field contacts.
Frequent inter-departmental contact and presentations.
Independently works with customers on a 1:1 basis, as well as in teams.

WORKING STANDARDS

Continues to refine development and analytical skills.
Applies a consistent development approach to provide creative solutions to problems.
Leads the design, construction and implementation of software and analytics solutions in the data science engineering environment.
Expands the organizational technical knowledge by providing mentoring to internal team and attending professional development opportunities.

FREEDOM TO ACT/ INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT

Works independently with receiving minimal guidance. Acts as a team lead for multi-disciplinary projects.
Acts as a mentor and provides directions to colleagues with less experience.
Work is evaluated to ensure objectives are met.
Exercises judgement in selecting and adapting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Contributes to designing standard practices and procedures.

OCCASIONAL TRAVEL

The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis.

BENEFITS

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Staff Software Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.