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Applications Development Specialist I
Boston Children's Hospital
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 1 day ago
- $69,888.00 – $111,831.20 / year
- Python
- JavaScript
- Django
- REST API
- SQL
1 day ago
Job Posting Description
Position Summary:The Musculoskeletal Digital Innovation and Informatics (MDI2) Program (https://www.musculoskeletal.ai) at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine has an immediate opening for a motivated Applications Development Specialist to work with a multidisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, orthopedic surgeons, and computer and data scientists to develop, maintain, and deploy (design, test, debug, provide beta support, and implement) interactive software applications, platforms, and informatics systems in the field of digital health. This opportunity is primarily focused on translational research with immediate impact on clinical care of patients with a range of musculoskeletal conditions, through publication of novel findings and development of user-centered computational tools used by clinicians.
Key Responsibilities:
- Researches and identifies the requirements of software application development programming needs, with an emphasis on user-facing layouts and interactive workflows.
- Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs and implements scalable software applications across multiple digital health platforms, focusing on delivering responsive and modern user interfaces.
- Resolves problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
- Coordinates, schedules, and ensures timely delivery of development services, overseeing version control repositories, code hosting, and cloud-based application deployment workflows.
- Produces written documentation for new and existing processes, programs, code, applications, and workflow, and hosting environments. Keeps software documentation and deployment procedures accurate and up to date.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree is required in Computer Science or a closely related field.
- Experience with Programing Languages (proficiency in Python).
- CS fundamentals, object-oriented architecture utilizing design patterns, analytical problem solving, testing, and debugging skills.
- Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and actively contribute to team-based application development.
- Experience in modern frontend technologies for interactive user interface development (e.g. a JavaScript framework) is preferred.
- Experience in backend frameworks such as Django is preferred.
- Experience in RESTful APIs is preferred.
- Experience in relational database (SQL) is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-based hosting and deployment solutions (e.g., distributed cloud platforms, container services, or deployment orchestration tools) is preferred.
- Status: Full-Time
- Regular, Temporary, Per Diem: Regular
- Standard Hours per Week: 40
- Pay Range: $69888.00-$111831.20 Annual
- Job Posting Category: Research
- Remote Eligibility: Part Remote/Hybrid
Applications Development Specialist I · Boston Children's Hospital