IT@JH Technology Innovation Center (TIC) is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer who will focus efforts on contract development projects as well as enterprise related projects and customers. Application development will utilize some agile development techniques as well as following department defined continuous integration protocols for application documentation, testing, and deployment.

The Sr. Software Engineer will utilize the TIC's preferred technology stack (Angular/Spring Boot) in the development of new applications and maintenance of existing applications. Knowledge of other technologies as required such as .Net and/or Grails to help maintain the TIC's applications under maintenance contracts.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Must be able to work closely with customers and understand and translate their functional needs into technical requirements.
• A close working relationship with customers is expected to define requirements for content, application design, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Building and maintaining strong, trusted customer and vendor relationships are critical as well and the Sr. Software Engineer should have experience presenting to executives, end-users as a subject-matter expert.
• Serves as a knowledgeable liaison between the functional and technical communities.
• Must possess strong technical skills and independently stay current with a constantly changing technology and vendor landscape. 
• Expected to lead projects and manage supporting staff as assigned to complete the project.
• Expected to work with management on setting timelines and priorities and work independently to achieve project goals.

Duties include

• Full Stack Development
• Experience leading the design, build, and implementation of at least one enterprise application.
• Experience leading the design, build, and implementation of at least four mid-sized applications.
• Familiarity with cross-platform development tools and techniques.
  
• Experience leading a variety of multi-person projects simultaneously.
  
• Comfortable switching gears depending on business requirements.
  
• Expertise with production use of 3-4 development languages and/or frameworks.
  
• Experience taking ownership of four or more established applications.
  
• Experience setting up development operations (DevOps) for projects (four minimum).
  
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Bamboo), build tools (e.g., Maven, npm), and associated process automation for at least five applications
  
• Familiarity with Git workflows such as Gitflow, feature branching, and forking.
  
• Experience with RESTful API concepts and developing distributed software systems for at least five applications.
  
• Experience presenting to customers, leadership, and other technical groups or associations.
  
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently, and proceed with objectives without supervision.
  
• Desire to provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
  

Work Location

• Hybrid, East Baltimore

General Job Information for the Technology Innovation Center

You

• Thrive in an interdisciplinary team-based environment.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and are also willing to take task-based direction on projects.
• Are not intimidated by working directly with university stakeholders at a world class university to design and develop software applications.
• Have some background knowledge rooted in the healthcare or higher education industry, and are relentlessly curious to know more.
• Would like to know your work is improving students' lives and making university systems function better, and you'd like to see this in action.
• Are comfortable with feedback and enjoy completing multiple iterations of your work before it becomes an enterprise-ready product.
• Don't take yourself too seriously and enjoy a collaborative environment with lots of whiteboards and post-It notes.

US

• We are designers, developers, project managers, and business leaders.
• We're passionate about creatively tackling challenges facing clinicians, patients, students, faculty, and staff through software development.
• The software we design and develop facilitates communications, monitoring, analysis, and/or education for clinicians, patients, students, faculty or administrators.
• We prioritize work on software applications that have the greatest potential to positively impact success.
• We aim to disrupt while improving upon the status-quo.

Core Values

• Lead by Serving: be accessible, attentive, and accommodating to the team and our customers.
• Challenge what's Usual: take initiative, be relentless, and stay curious.
• Take a Team-Based Approach: stay passionate about learning technology from each other and co-innovate.

The Process

• Partner with students, faculty, and university administration to identify and study the primary audiences.
• Analyze existing workflows of those audiences and ensure the application integrates with daily tasks of primary users.
• Work with Product Development Leads, Designers, and Software Developers to lead stakeholders in design sessions for feature prioritization and feedback.
• Deliver a minimum viable product for users that also allows for testing and iteration.
• Support and maintain the application, while also providing assistance to the users in maximizing the application's positive impact.
• Work with the team to design and execute additional phases of work as needed.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Six years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Experience with native application development for mobile devices a plus.

Classified Title: Sr. Software Engineer   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PF  
Starting Salary Range: Min $83,100- Mid $114,230- Max 145,360 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: ​​​​​​​Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​IT@JH Technology Innovation Center  
Personnel area: University Administration 

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

*JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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