Software Engineer (FHIR) - Nava
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- Software Engineer (FHIR)
- Job Location
- Remote
- Job Description
- About NavaNava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple, effective, and accessible to all. Since 2013, federal, state, and local government agencies have trusted Nava to build transformative digital services to help people access public benefits. Meeting our mission is an opportunity to restore trust between people and public institutions. We focus on populations that are the least protected because the stakes are higher.As a client services company, we work with government agencies to improve how people apply for benefits, navigate their health care, and more. We bill for our time, selling our expertise and problem-solving methodology to government clients. Our clients hire us to help improve their products and services so that their users and beneficiaries have a better customer experience.These end-users—the humans who benefit from our work—are at the core of everything we do. We research beneficiaries’ needs to help our government clients better deliver on their missions, providing everyone at Nava opportunities to do meaningful, impactful work.Position SummaryNava’s Software Engineer works with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software. The incumbent collaborates with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems, while working in an agile manner to efficiently deliver new features that meet user needs. The Software Engineer creates efficient tools and processes to automate Nava’s development, testing, and production workflows, routinely participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur. These responsibilities together support Nava’s culture and mission: Be Active Stewards, Pursue the Root Cause, Think Long-Term, Build Together, Inclusion is Essential and Progress Takes Work.What you'll do
- Writing and implementing code
- Performing local testing to ensure acceptance criteria have been met
- Writing technical specifications (tech specs) to introduce new functionality or features to the codebase
- Receiving and applying feedback to the codebase before implementation
- Reviewing pull requests to identify needs prior to merging
- Providing feedback to teammates on pull requests for collaboration on proposed changes
- Implementing and testing updates for design systems such as web designIdentifying and proposing solutions to blockers encountered with the work
- Collaborating with internal and external engineers via engineering huddles
- Attending standup meetings to discuss project updates and status
- Participating in refinements to estimate level of difficulty for each ticket
- Participating in biweekly retrospectives (retros) to discuss sprint efficiencies or inefficiencies
- Participating in sprint demo meetings to demonstrate work completed or in progress
- Sharing expertise with others by providing feedback to designers, project managers, and other engineers to develop solutions and priorities
- Serving as a resource to peers on Nava’s culture and expectations
- Participating in Engineering critiques with other teams to provide and receive feedback on work performed
- Interfacing with clients to provide project updates and propose solutions
Required skills- 6+ years experience developing software in a team environment, preferably building distributed systems
- Strong experience in the healthcare industry - you know FHIR very well
- Experience utilizing Smart on FHIR standards to build healthcare applications
- Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Java and or Kotlin
- Open to Backend engineers or Full-Stack leaning Backend engineers
- Understanding of web and mobile user interface design best practices
- Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code
- Equal parts systems thinker and advocate for users
- Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
- Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
- An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
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Nava Company Size
Between 50 - 500 employees
Nava Founded Year
2015
Nava Total Amount Raised
$1,005,250