Senior Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote, US

Travel: Candidates must be available for an in-person interview in Austin, TX. The role requires occasional travel, amounting to less than 10%.

R1 is the leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups. We are the one company that combines the deep expertise of a global workforce of revenue cycle professionals with the industry’s most advanced technology platform, encompassing sophisticated analytics, AI, intelligent automation, and workflow orchestration. 

As our Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering team and apply advanced technical knowledge, broad knowledge of software engineering best practices, problem-solving, and creativity to build and maintain software products that achieve technical, business, and customer experience goals. To thrive in this role, you must have the ability and willingness to mentor and develop junior software engineers, and act as a thought leader and trusted subject-matter expert in a variety of technical domains.

Here’s what you will experience working as a Senior Staff Software Engineer:

• Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.
• Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices.
• Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance.  
• Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories.  
• Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments.    
• Apply consistent levels of strategic thinking, judgment, decision making, attention to detail, teamwork, organization, innovation, and initiative.  
• Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field
• 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in a thought leadership role
• Preferable experience working with clinical data, understanding the full life cycle of claims
• Advanced knowledge of general engineering concepts, such as design patterns, with a focus on Big Data
• Advanced understanding of Apache Spark, Python, Scala, and Databricks
• Relevant experience with Epic, FHIR, and HL7
• Extensive experience with cloud environments, including Azure, GCP or AWS
• Web services standards and related technology knowledge (XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, Rest.)
• Understanding of modern software development, including version control, unit testing, and continuous integration & deployment
• Healthcare technology industry experience
•  Agile development experience
•  Strong communication skills, with proven ability to present complex ideas and to document concisely

The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.

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