Join us to Improve Health Equity for 5 Million People!

CareMessage is the technology non-profit building the largest patient engagement platform for low-income populations in the United States. Powered by the Health Equity Engine™, the platform enables organizations to combine messaging, data, and interoperability to increase access to care, improve clinical outcomes, and address social drivers of health.

With 20 million patients reached since 2013, CareMessage is the only patient engagement solution proven to improve health equity at scale. The team, many with lived experiences in these communities, leverages a nonprofit model to reinvest revenue into impact. CareMessage is the partner of choice for organizations committed to advancing health equity.

We are currently searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Integrations team and support the expansion of healthcare interoperability development. We’ve built integrations with leading EHRs and are looking to add another engineer on our team working on API to API, direct Database (Kit and Caboodle, Clarity, etc.), FHIR-based and possibly HL7 based workflows. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with Product, Customer Success, Engineering, and customers directly to understand their needs and integration requirements. Your core responsibility will involve understanding customers needs and leading the development of interfaces that connect the CareMessage platform with external systems.

Our ideal candidate is an accomplished Senior Software Engineer who thrives in dynamic, fully-distributed startup environments. They possess a strong passion for software engineering fundamentals and developing high-quality integrations and are excited about the opportunity to leverage their curiosity and technical skills to develop new solutions for our customers. Above all, they share our mission-driven commitment and take pride in contributing to our objective of advancing health equity for low-income populations.

Requirements

- Minimum 4 years of hands-on software engineering experience with JavaScript and one other programming language with at least 3 years of that experience in developing healthcare integrations leveraging common interoperability standards (FHIR and HL7)
- Exceptional fundamentals of computer programming, including a good understanding of software development lifecycle, coding best practices, design patterns, object-oriented architecture, etc.
- A commitment to supporting and fostering diversity and inclusion (We have a global team and you will regularly collaborate with people from a variety of walks of life)
- This role requires the candidate to reside within the United States of America
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated ability to autonomously drive the delivery of long-term initiatives
- Growth-oriented mindset
- Communication Skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, especially in fully remote environments
- Project Management: Effective project management skills, with emphasis on the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical partners to lead discovery, development, and testing phases of integration development
- Strong experience working remotely

Preferred Experience

- Experience working with mainstream EHRs such as Epic, eClinicalWorks, AthenaHealth, NextGen, etc.
- Experience with our Tech Stack: Rhapsody, JavaScript/TypeScript/React, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GCP
- Experience with Mirth and/or Rhapsody Integration Engine (we use Rhapsody)
- Background in TDD engineering environments
- Experience working closely with data teams, leveraging healthcare data and foundational data science concepts

Job Responsibilities

- Leveraging a deep understanding of our company objectives and technical strategy, you will work with the team to define effective approaches to impacting the current and future workflows of safety-net healthcare providers and the patients that they support.
- You will lead communication with customers, partners, and other external technical resources to understand the integration requirements and implementation details of those workflows and design effective solutions.
- You will design, build, and maintain integrations in Rhapsody (Javascript) following engineering best practices.
- Working with the rest of the team, you will develop and expand upon scalable architecture for healthcare integrations
- You will provide technical training for integrations you develop to assure capabilities for support teams to monitor and troubleshoot integrations, and you will assist in measuring impact of live integrations
- You will work closely with Product teams to conceptualize and define impactful solutions, often through Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).
- You will help improve the team over time through essential team rituals, such as Kickoffs, Retrospectives, and Tech Debt Reviews
- You will contribute to the team by participating in On-Call (PagerDuty) activities.

Within 1 Month you’ll

- Have a working familiarity with CareMessage’s features and the API
- Understand the Rhapsody Development Environment and our SDLC
- Learn and follow CareMessage's integration engineering standards, coding best practices and development processes
- Establish rapport with engineers on the team through Wiki contributions, 1:1s, Team Rituals, etc.

Within 3 Months you’ll

- Be self-sufficient in completing tasks and have delivered upon Integration projects with wide-ranging impact
- Gain a strong understanding of our technical environment and identify areas for growth in our processes, systems and/or tooling
- Understand our Company Objectives and be able to articulate how Integrations directly impacts them

Within 6 Months you’ll

- Be noted as a technical leader by your peers and manager having developed strong trust and rapport with them
- Have end-to-end ownership of the implementation of multiple integration projects
- Contribute your expertise in one or more areas that drive value and impact within our engineering department (e.g., API improvements, automated testing strategies, etc.)

$170,500 - $170,500 a year

This role is currently set at a level three Individual Contributor, equivalent to someone who has held multiple engineering roles with related experience in integration engineering and is strongly proficient in their craft.

Our salary allocation for this role is $170,500.

Note: If you don’t fit this description perfectly (in particular, if you come from an under-represented group) but have held a Senior or Staff Engineer position and/or related role in Healthcare Integration Engineering in the past, please apply!

We believe in equitable pay. Team members performing the same role at the same level are paid equitably regardless of location.

Working at CareMessage

We take care of our employees by offering competitive salaries and benefits packages. We ensure our team feels cared for so that we, in turn, can help support our safety net organizations and underserved populations.

We compensate fairly and equitably

Flexible work hours; fully remote team

We believe in equal work for equal pay: all team members performing the same role at the same level are paid similarly, regardless of where they are in the world

Paid parental leave for biological and adopted children

We give you time off to thrive

Half-day Fridays, every Friday

18 paid company holidays, including a one week mid-year and one week end-of-year break

9 wellness days to be used for self-care- or anything that comes up in life

15 days of PTO

1-month (20 working days) paid sabbatical after the 4-year anniversary, and every 4 years thereafter

We support your health, wellness, and growth

Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families

Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts

401k retirement plan

Short & long-term disability insurance

$100 per employee yearly wellness budget, with flexibility to spend on physical, emotional, and mental wellness resources

PerkSpot: Instant access to discounts on products & services from hundreds of vendors

Annual budget for professional and personal development (webinars, online courses, books, and more)

Volunteerism incorporated in onboarding and encouraged on an ongoing basis

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Senior Software Engineer, Integrations (Remote, US-based)