Principal Software Engineer - FHIR

About Nava

Nava 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 Summary

Nava's Principal Software Engineer (FHIR) is an expert in HL7 FHIR and related standards and serves as a vital bridge between Nava technical experts external developers and clients. As an architect strategist consultant and translator your mission will be to drive the overall strategy and architecture for FHIR-based software services within major federal agencies. The incumbent is a dynamic technically-oriented individual who possesses an innate ability to delve deep into technology find ways to improve it and help the end user community understand and adopt our clients’ technologies. The Principal Engineer is someone adept at speaking with customers gathering their feedback and helping translate that feedback into action with the project team. Your role will encompass various collaborative efforts with clients to shape the product roadmap providing subject matter expertise when investigating customer issues training engineers and driving technical overall direction within the organization.

What you'll do

• Working with software engineers in understanding FHIR objects and relationships the standards landscape and implementation considerations related to claims data

• Crafting long-term strategic roadmaps related to FHIR conformance and overall standards development

• Active work within the HL7 and related standards bodies

• Developing a deep understanding of the developer user space and their needs now and in the future

• Prototyping new features tools etc.

• Working closely with product design and engineering teams to share developer user needs now and in the future. This should deeply inform project direction

• Reviewing improving and writing user documentation product and technical plans and software with an eye toward user needs now and in the future

• Taking on software engineering tasks on an as-needed basis including building new features needed by users or debugging user issues.

Required skills

• Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Kotlin Java Python Ruby etc

• At least 6 years of experience working in an agile multidisciplinary team environment preferably designing and building medium to large-scale web applications on Cloud Platforms

• Strong experience in the healthcare industry - you live and breathe HL7/FHIR!

• Experience utilizing Smart on FHIR standards to build healthcare applications

• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code

• Equal parts systems thinker software engineer and overall evangelist

• 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.

$153000 - $171000 a year

Other requirements

All roles at Nava require the following:

●  Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and meet any other requirements for government contracts for which they are hired.

●  Candidates offered a job at Nava must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship either currently or in the future. Please be aware that most of our positions require U.S. citizenship or a green card.

●  May be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

Perks working with Nava

● Competitive benefits: We prioritize your well-being offering highly competitive medical dental and vision benefits.

● Generous time off: Enjoy 20 days of accrued PTO 12 paid federal holidays 5 prorated floating holidays and unlimited sick leave.

● Annual discretionary bonus: Paid annually to eligible employees. When Nava does well you do well.

● Parental leave: Receive 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and weekly meal deliveries during your leave.

● Employee wellness program: Access our comprehensive Employee Wellness Program.

● Virtual doctor visits: Enjoy zero copay virtual doctor visits through UHC.

● Fertility support: Benefit from fertility support and treatment options.

● Sabbatical leave: We offer a sabbatical leave program.

● 401k contributions: We match 4% of your salary in 401k contributions.

● Flexible work arrangements: We offer flexible work arrangements to suit your needs.

● Home office setup: Receive assistance with your home office setup and a monthly phone allowance.

● Utilities reimbursement: Get a monthly partial reimbursement for utilities (where applicable).

● Learning and development: Access our comprehensive learning and development program.

● Tuition and Professional development budget: Receive a prorated annual tuition and professional development budget and a LinkedIn Learning license.

● Equity stock options: Benefit from equity stock options.

● Employee referral program: Participate in our employee referral program.

● Commuter benefits: Enjoy commuter benefits.

● Insurance coverage: Receive short and long-term disability insurance as well as life and accidental death insurance.

● Inclusive culture: Join our diverse inclusive highly collaborative and vibrant culture that supports remote work.

Location

We have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states:

Alabama Arizona California Colorado DC Florida Georgia Illinois Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nevada North Carolina New Jersey New York Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Texas Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin.

*If you are not living in one of the states listed above unfortunately you will not be considered for a position at this time.

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Nava PBC equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color age gender religious or political beliefs national origin or heritage marital status disability sex sexual orientation or gender identity genetic information pregnancy status as a protected veteran or any characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion not only reflects our values as a public benefit corporation but also enriches our ability to do our work. Learn more about where we are today and hope to be by 2025.

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We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role requires you to work from the contiguous United States.