Principal Software Engineer - FHIR

About NavaNava 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.