Web Front End Software Development Engineer

Job Description: 

LiveData seeks a talented Web Front-End Software Development Engineer for our Cloud Engineering team. You will develop and deliver healthcare web apps that patients and medical professionals love using. You should have some familiarity with AWS and strong web development knowledge and be ready to make a real impact within a team of highly skilled engineers.

LiveData engineers develop surgical care management solutions that allow surgeons and hospitals to plan accurately, then safely perform surgery. Our solutions leverage the intricacies and relationships of day-of-surgery data to optimize hospital staff and resources for the most efficient and safest patient surgical journey. This allows hospitals and surgery centers to leverage their most profitable resource: the Operating Room (OR) suite.

Using AWS technology, we’ve built our perioperative system of engagement to seamlessly interface with major Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems to provide OR staff the best possible user experience for capturing and communicating perioperative documentation. LiveData gives nurses time to do what they do best: Provide unparalleled day-of-surgery patient care while addressing their growing EHR documentation burden. 

Responsibilities:

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional browser-based applications
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable JavaScript or TypeScript code
• Ensure the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications, including responsive design for desktop and mobile devices
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and work with QA to devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Test and evaluate the app for security and performance pitfalls
• Validate/test for cross-browser/platform/device compatibility
• Participate in code standards and lead code reviews

This role can be on-site, hybrid, or fully remote. We have a slight preference for local Boston-area candidates.

Skills, Experience & Education Needed:

Required:

• Minimum of five years of relevant front-end work experience
• Familiarity with cloud services, especially Amazon Web Services, including AWS SDKs
• A knack for writing clean, readable, efficient, and fully documented code
• Proven delivery experience with Agile/Scrum teams

Preferred (but not required): 

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience, and 3+ years of experience in web application development. In lieu of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience is acceptable.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders, designers, data scientists, and other engineers (incl. back-end & database) to determine and clarify business and technical requirements
• Experience with the following technologies: JavaScript and/or TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS. Experience with Bootstrap or similar UI/UX toolkit(s) and/or grid-system(s)
• Working with user experience designers, UX design sense, and ability to research precedents
• Developing interactive data visualizations using web technologies such as SVG, Canvas, and/or WebGL, with or without helper libraries, especially well-integrated into React components
• Building, packaging, and distributing web bundles and NPM libraries using Vite, Babel, Webpack, etc.
• Continuous integration (via GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild) and integration testing 
• Analytics — Integrating Google Analytics and/or similar tools
• Backend — Python3, C#, in various serverless configurations on AWS
• Data Modeling — Especially with JSON(-LD) schemas
• Security — protecting against potential XSS & CSRF attacks, using JSON Web Tokens, configuring HTTP request & response headers
• Healthcare experience is desirable but not required
• Knowledge of modern DevOps technologies (e.g., Docker, AWS CDK) and CI/CD
• Understanding of deployment plans and resource integration techniques
• Knowledge of any other elements of the technical stack is a plus, including Python, REST, React, NoSQL and SQL Databases, JavaScript, HTML, REST, GitHub, Docker, JIRA, Confluence, Swagger, and AWS (S3, ECS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Lambda, AWS-SDK)

Why LiveData?

Surgery is one of the most challenging times in most people's lives. This is a rare opportunity to help build leading-edge cloud-based surgical software producing a meaningful impact on improving patient outcomes. 

LiveData PeriOp Manager is our AWS serverless solution that makes surgery safer for patients and easier for surgeons to deliver. With the trust of customers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Veterans Administration, we've already helped manage over a million surgeries. We are a small team looking for people ready to have a big impact. Sound like you?

About Us:

LiveData develops and deploys healthcare IT solutions, with a particular focus on surgical workflows, to enhance productivity and safety for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs).  LiveData PeriOp Manager provides the most comprehensive real-time logistics solution designed for clinicians to optimize surgical workflows. The need to increase productivity has become even more critical due to ongoing staff shortages and COVID-related disruptions.

LiveData PeriOp Manager integrates with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to enable high-performance clinical teams to complete more surgeries per day with the same staff and resources, providing millions of dollars of incremental margins, along with increased patient safety.  LiveData solutions provide significant benefits to patients, providers, and payers.  

Installed at 80 hospitals and 675 operating rooms that have performed over 1 million surgeries using the LiveData solution.  Leading medical institutions, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, community hospitals, and over 75 Veterans Health Administration facilities have selected the LiveData solution to improve patient safety, team communication, perioperative access, and efficiency.

LiveData is profitable, debt-free, and has well-established customers and a meaningful mission to help improve surgery.  LiveData was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Healthcare.

LiveData is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Our attractive small company benefits and culture include:

• Competitive salary package
• A fun, collaborative environment
• A real entrepreneurial spirit, drive, and mission to make a tangible difference in the world
• Hybrid schedule, working remotely some or all of the time 
• 100% healthcare, vision, and dental benefits, along with a matching 401K