Principal Software Engineer at Allscripts in Chicago, IL

Practice Fusion is hiring a talented engineering leader, passionate about creating life-saving technology for doctors and patients. Our cloud-based EHR is an ambitious Services Oriented Architecture hosted in AWS and written primarily in .NET, utilizing WebAPI and WCF with a combination of ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core. You will take on the challenge of solving complex technical problems to deliver vital, reliable product features to our customers.

Responsibilities:

As a Principal at Practice Fusion, you will be expected to fulfill a large array of technical leadership responsibilities:

• You are a hands-on architect: you code, test, and deploy solutions of premium quality that not only serve the business need but simultaneously advance the architecture of the entire system
• You design and implement critical libraries and services used by over 180 cloud microservices
• You provide technical thought leadership for the development team
• You help define the platform team roadmap
• You drive architecture decisions to advance the platform technology and improve development velocity, quality, performance, and security
• You mentor developers through coaching, code review feedback, and leading by example
• You learn from the team, identify the challenges they face, and propose technical and process solutions that alleviate those challenges
• You promote best practices, and evangelize new technologies and approaches
• You collaborate across services, UI, DevOps, and data functional areas to ensure unity of technology evolution.

As with any senior-level engineer at Practice Fusion, you will still have technical responsibilities to perform in your day-to-day.

• Architect and lead development of technical solutions that are secure, robust, performant, and scalable
• Employ technical and thought leadership to drive products from inception to release
• Work with stakeholders to ensure the solution meets business needs
• Write correct, well-factored code that is testable and maintainable, and that demonstrates best practices
• Balance engineering costs of development, testing, deployment complexity, and run-time cost, to deliver optimum value for the business and customers
• Define, document, and implement nonfunctional requirements, including performance, security, and standards compliance
• Contribute to enterprise and platform architecture roadmap and implementation

Main Duties:

• Architect complex application workflows across multiple services, messaging platforms, and data stores
• Develop and test WebAPI and WCF services that provide business logic, access a variety of data storage technologies, and interact through messaging, REST, and SOAP patterns
• Write unit tests and functional tests that cover all of your code
• Author SQL Server database schemas and stored procedures
• Write and groom stories to define, estimate, and track your team’s work
• Measure, find, and fix performance and security issues
• Advocate for the right tools for the task at hand
• Review code and provide feedback to improve code quality
• Demonstrate and evangelize best practices for coding and team processes
• Mentor developers across multiple experience levels, teams, and functional areas on best practices in coding and team process

Qualifications:

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

• BSCS or related discipline

Experience:

• 10+ yrs. C#/.NET experience
• 5+ yrs. in each of the following
• NET WebAPI, WCF, REST
• Relational database development
• Version control and continuous integration
• Being a leader in agile teams, enabling them to deliver secure, scalable solutions
• Designing solutions using architecture patterns (caching, type-ahead, retry policies, queuing, etc.)
• 5+ yrs. in one or more of the following:
• Cloud development (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Document storage technologies (AWS S3, MongoDB, etc.)
• Messaging systems (AWS SQS, ActiveMQ, etc.)