Applications Development Specialist I
87098BR
Orthopedic Surgery and Research
Status
Full-Time
Standard Hours per Week
40
Job Category
Research,
Regular, Temporary, Per Diem
Regular
Pay Range
$69888.00-$111831.20 Annual
Office/Site Location
Boston
Remote Eligibility
Part Remote/Hybrid
Job Posting Description
At Boston Children’s Hospital, the quality of our care – and our inclusive hospital working environment – lies in the diversity of our people. With patients from local communities and 160 countries around the world, we’re committed to reflecting the spectrum of their cultures, while opening doors of opportunity for our team. Here, different talents pursue common goals. Voices are heard and ideas are shared. Join us, and discover how your unique contributions can change lives. Yours included.
The Musculoskeletal Digital Innovation and Informatics (MDI2) Program (https://www.musculoskeletal.ai) at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine has an immediate opening for a motivated Applications Development Specialist to work with a multidisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, orthopedic surgeons, and computer and data scientists to develop, maintain, and deploy (design, test, debug, provide beta support, and implement) interactive software applications, platforms, and informatics systems in the field of digital health. This opportunity is primarily focused on translational research with immediate impact on clinical care of patients with a range of musculoskeletal conditions, through publication of novel findings and development of user-centered computational tools used by clinicians.
Key Responsibilities:
- Researches and identifies the requirements of software application development programming needs, with an emphasis on user-facing layouts and interactive workflows.
- Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs and implements scalable software applications across multiple digital health platforms, focusing on delivering responsive and modern user interfaces.
- Resolves problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
- Coordinates, schedules, and ensures timely delivery of development services, overseeing version control repositories, code hosting, and cloud-based application deployment workflows.
- Produces written documentation for new and existing processes, programs, code, applications, and workflow, and hosting environments. Keeps software documentation and deployment procedures accurate and up to date.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree is required in Computer Science or a closely related field.
Experience:
- Experience with Programing Languages (proficiency in Python).
- CS fundamentals, object-oriented architecture utilizing design patterns, analytical problem solving, testing, and debugging skills.
- Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and actively contribute to team-based application development.
- Experience in modern frontend technologies for interactive user interface development (e.g. a JavaScript framework) is preferred.
- Experience in backend frameworks such as Django is preferred.
- Experience in RESTful APIs is preferred.
- Experience in relational database (SQL) is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-based hosting and deployment solutions (e.g., distributed cloud platforms, container services, or deployment orchestration tools) is preferred.
The posted pay range is Boston Children’s reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.
Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.
Boston Children’s Hospital is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.
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