• Department: Ascension Studio
• Schedule: Full Time Monday - Friday 8-5pm 
• Location: Remote

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community
*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Connect with your Talent Advisor today for additional specifics.

As a Sr. Software Engineer with Ascension Technologies, you will contribute to the creation of our robust suite of cloud-native enterprise applications in the rapidly growing healthcare software industry. You will be a member of a dev team working collaboratively with others in an Agile organization to deliver software that sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities.

With more than 4,000 associates, Ascension Technologies enables access to data across applications, transforming how clinicians and patients interact with technology, which enhances our ability to better serve communities with greater agility and responsiveness. Our associates leverage technology to create collaborative solutions that improve health decisions every day. We believe you should be a tech founder not a fixer – that’s how we do tech at Ascension technologies. We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words, and we are developing software solutions to support that mission

Responsibilities:

• Write new or enhance custom software as a member of your Agile scrum team. Successfully contributing to software that is complex, secure, cloud-native, scalable, performant, high user/data volume, and part of a highly available distributed system without introducing a regression in any of these aspects.
• Ensure that your solutions are written with quality in mind with unit and integration tests. Code is correct, clean and follows best practices.
• Regularly participate in scrum activities, technical design, design reviews, code reviews and status updates.
• Work with team members to ensure that delivered code meets specifications based on functional/technical specifications
• Grow your knowledge of the solution areas that you represent.
• Grow your understanding of the value and impact that your solutions provide to Ascension and the community. 

Experience/Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in OOAD, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience with microservice design and development.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-native, scalable, and highly available distributed systems
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (MySql, Postgres, Mongo etc), SQL, and database/schema design
• Experience designing, developing and consuming RESTful API’s
• Experience with API gateways (e.g. Apigee, Kong)
• Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g. Rabbit, Kafka)
• 4-8 years professional experience in software engineering.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Desired Experience:

• Experience developing in Java8 /Spring Boot
• Experience with TDD/BDD/DDD using JUnit, Cucumber etc.
• Experience with PCF and GCP

Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

Work Experience:

• 1 year of experience required.
• 4 years of experience preferred.
• 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 150,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

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