Ascension is hiring a
Remote Software Development Manager

Details

• Department:Ascension Studio
• Schedule:8-hour day shift, Monday-Friday
• Location: Remote

Benefits

Responsibilities

• Build a high-performing software engineering team
• Enable your team's success, and clear blockers
• Ensures that the team’s product implements high quality code supporting software engineering standards, architecture and software best practices with support for test automation
• Regularly participate in scrum activities, design reviews, code reviews and status updates
• Champions product and process compliance, and is engaged in all aspects of the project from design, build, test and ultimately implementation
• Evaluates effectiveness of implemented solutions to inform future trade-off decisions
• Coordinate on-call support for your product or teams, triage inbound support tickets as needed, and prioritize work effectively
• Engage in vision casting, strategic thinking and goal setting with the team. Then, motivate and focus the team to meet these goals and objectives
• Technical mentorship & coaching of team members
• Ability to perform under pressure, instill accountability and achieve results with minimal oversight and direction
• Engages in highly effective interviews, and provides/shares critical feedback that drives a go/no-go decision regarding a candidate
• Communicates project status in a clear, concise and timely manner with supporting product adoption and health metrics as needed.
• Monitors the software industry for emerging trends, tools, and best practices, while weeding out the noise

• 7+ years of professional software development experience with 2+ years of leadership or management experience
• 3+ years experience and expert in designing, developing, and consuming Restful API’s.
• Experience in designing and developing complex, cloud-native, scalable, performant and highly available distributed systems, with experience in at least one cloud native platform (Docker/K8S/CF)
• Expertise in microservice architectural patterns and design
• Expertise in Java8+/Spring Boot
• Expert-level understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (MySql, Postgres, Mongo etc), SQL, and database/schema design
• Fluency in a high-level Object-oriented programming language (preferably Java) and strong knowledge of OOAD, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience implementing APIs on gateway products (e.g. Apigee)
• Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g. Rabbit, Kafka)
• Experience working on a Scrum team participating in Agile ceremonies e.g. daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demos/retrospectives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with Sitecore
• Experience with TDD/BDD/DDD using JUnit, Cucumber etc.
• Experience with PCF and GCP
• Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR)

• Be curious about technology. The software engineering industry is constantly changing and evolving. At Ascension, we embrace change and are curious to learn how the latest technology can be used to improve the lives of patients and our clinicians.
• Learn and grow professionally. We strive for continuous improvement of our Digital Studio organization and our team members do the same. This comes from the path of constant learning, in addition to reflecting on past experiences for improvement opportunities.
• Always ready for change. A rolling stone gathers no moss, and neither do we. We accept that change is always around us, and our work is no exception. We navigate change through early and often communication; engage the ambiguous; promote diversity; accept new ideas; and lean on learning agility.
• Seek feedback. Feedback is important to us. We use it as a guide for our own development, and we build our software with feedback built into the process. It is incorporated into our software development lifecycle with design, code reviews, unit tests, and continuous integration. Feedback is also integrated into our shipped solutions with application performance monitoring (APM) and usage analytics to help us learn methods to improve.
• Sound awareness of self and situations. We understand the importance of knowing our best selves, and the value gained from our teams to compensate for our shortcomings. Equally important is our ability to assess situations with a calm and clear mind, and develop next steps to proceed in the best manner possible.
• Demonstrate positivity. Our organization's focus is all about solving problems, and most of these problems are challenging. We try not to let that get in our way of thinking positively -- instead it's what motivates us to reach higher.
• Work with your team. We understand that our best work comes from working together. Our teams enjoy working together, sharing knowledge, helping, mentoring, and delivering our best for the communities we serve.
• Live Ascension’s core values. The Ascension core values are the standard that we hold ourselves to and a source of pride for us. We live by them. Our core values include: service of the poor; reverence; integrity; wisdom; creativity; and dedication.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Programming or substantially related field is required.
• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

• 3 years of experience required.
• 5 years of experience preferred.
• 1 year of leadership or management experience preferred.
• 3 years of experience required.
• 5 years of experience preferred.
• 1 year of leadership or management experience preferred.

Why Join Our Team

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer