Associate Software Engineer

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: Associate Software Engineer 

Job Summary and Qualifications

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:

As an engineer in ITG Accelerated Technologies and DT&I, you will work closely with our design , data science, product, and innovation teams to provide the fundamental infrastructure for their success, creating life-changing technology in HCA Healthcare’s network of care. This position involves developing microservices, deploying applications using cloud infrastructure, and scaling solutions across hundreds of hospitals. As part of a software development team, you will be responsible for creating maintainable, high quality, well-tested code, both individually and collaboratively. A well-suited candidate for this position is a highly motivated self-starter and is committed to delivering high quality solutions within agreed upon timelines. This engineer can quickly learn and maintain existing solutions as well as new development. 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 can develop relationships throughout the organization to assist in accomplishing its goals for the company. Application development skills are required using ReactJS, TypeScript, Python, Fast API and Postgres. 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 preferred. Experience with healthcare data and technology is preferred.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build life-changing healthcare technology

• Act as a technical expert within AT and project Integrations, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing

• Design and develop scalable, dependable, maintainable distributed software

• Clearly communicate software architecture in accordance with C4 model

• Estimate work effort required in delivering features

• Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates coding best practices

• Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborates on solutions

• Lead troubleshooting activities

• Provide after-hours/on-call support as needed

• Follow software development standards and frameworks

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree required

Master's degree preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

Technology Experience: Entry level experience in some of the following. 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, (Google Cloud Platform preferred)

• Proficiency in multiple primary programming languages (some functional preferred)

• Proficiency with streaming and event driven architectures

• Understanding of best practices in the design and implementation of REST-based APIs

• Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing

• Understanding of DevOps practices and experience with associated tools

• Experience with container-based platforms (Kubernetes, Cloud run ,OpenShift, etc.)

• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation practices

• SQL experience (BigQuery, Postgres)

• Distributed database experience

• Scrum/Agile experience

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Healthcare Experience

• Service and Quality Excellence: Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients.

• Honor our Mission and Values: Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of integrity, inclusion, and mutual respect.

• Effective Decision Making: Ability to make timely, informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community and HCA.

• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships: Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA.

• Communicate with Impact: Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.

• Achieve Success through Change: Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, remove barriers and resistance, and enable desired behaviors.

• Drive Execution and Financial Results: Ability to commit to the success and financial wellbeing of HCA by challenging others to excel and hold themselves and others accountable for achieving results.

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 mentor and provides direction 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.

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.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Associate 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!

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