Senior Software Engineer
Nationwide Children's Hospital4 days ago
Columbus, OH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead development and maintenance of complex high-availability health informatics applications and data processing and transformation pipelines.
- Own architecture quality, operability, performance, reliability, and continuous improvement of systems.
- Gather requirements, present plans, and report progress and results to stakeholders.
- Document systems and processes and audit computational systems and workflows.
- Design backend applications, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, and data orchestration solutions.
- Develop usability testing, validation, technical support, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Mentor less experienced programmers through design reviews, pair programming, and formal coaching.
- Collaborate with research and clinical leadership, faculty, developers, scientists, and staff.
- Champion secure coding, data privacy, and regulatory compliance practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a relevant field, or equivalent experience, required.
- At least 5 years of experience in development required.
- Demonstrated expertise in backend application development and RESTful API design.
- Deep experience with modern API frameworks, asynchronous processing, and data orchestration patterns.
- Expertise in front-end and/or back-end programming languages and technical troubleshooting.
- Deep knowledge of database design, development, and maintenance.
- Ability to model and ensure software development best practices, including version control, code review, testing, and documentation.
- Strong mentoring, communication, presentation, precision, data analysis, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Master’s degree or PhD preferred.
- Four years of full-stack development experience preferred.
- Experience with cloud computing environments and containerization technologies preferred.
- Experience producing applications or pipelines aligned with product requirements preferred.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and decomposing roadmaps into milestones and measurable outcomes preferred.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Nationwide Children's Hospital
Nationwide Children ’s Hospital is a nonprofit pediatric healthcare system that provides inpatient, outpatient, and surgical care for children and adolescents, along with clinical research and medical education. Based in Columbus, Ohio and founded in 1892, it includes the Abigail Wexner Research Institute and serves about 1.8 million patient visits annually across many specialties and locations. It is academically affiliated with The Ohio State University College of Medicine.