Software Developer Frontend - interested in Healthcare - remote

Posted 3 years ago  • Calgary, AB, Canada

What You Will Work On

As a frontend developer at Cohesic, you will be involved in all aspects of product development ranging from requirements elicitation and analysis, to UI design, and more. You’ll be part of a team building groundbreaking technologies in the healthcare space –ones that will improve the lives of many people –on the Cohesic DI platform. As a team member, you’ll wear multiple hats as we work together on complex features and continuous improvement.

Our Team Values

At Cohesic, we value: grit, the ability to persevere despite setbacks;respect, for our coworkers, our customers, and ourselves;continuous learning, the mentality that any experience, good or bad, is an opportunity for growth;empowerment, enabling and encouraging autonomy and self-organization with the power to make change;and trust, to know that everyone is working together towards a common goal.

Your Role and Responsibilities

  • Design and develop new features on the Cohesic DI platform using TypeScript and React
  • Contribute to, and maintain our shared component library and design system
  • Participate in collaborative design sessions ranging from software architecture to UI and UX
  • Write and maintain professional-quality code with a focus on patient safety and privacy
  • Write and maintain test suites from unit tests up to end-to-end tests
  • Write and maintain functional engineering documentation and guides
  • Coordinate with quality assurance analysts on test processes, and defect correction
  • Continually interact with team members and sometimes external partners via Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, and other tools
  • Occasionally maintain backend code using Clojure and Scala

Required Background and Expertise for Success in This Role

  • Authorization to work in Canada (or in country of residence if remote)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of experience in frontend software development
  • 3+ years of experience building web-based applications
  • Solid understanding of reactive principles as they apply to frontend development
  • Experience writing unit tests and integration tests
  • Experience in working with web services (e.g. RESTful APIs, RPC, etc.)
  • Experience with both dynamic and statically typed languages
  • Experience working with git as a VCS
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies and practices
  • Fluency in English, written and spoken
  • Ability to communicate clearly and confidently about technical requirements
  • A positive attitude, willing to dive into what is needed for our mutual success

Preferred Expertise

  • 5+ years of experience in frontend software development
  • 5+ years of experience building web-based applications
  • 2+ years of experience writing frontend code in TypeScript and React
  • Experience evaluating and improving product usability
  • Experience with real-time systems and/or WebSockets
  • Experience working with documented requirements
  • Experience in end-to-end testing with tools like Cypress or Nightwatch.js
  • Experience writing custom tools to automate tasks
  • Experience in *nix and Bash programming
  • A keen eye for visual design and layout

Location

  • Main office is in Calgary, AB, Canada
  • Remote work possible;must be able to accommodate business hours in ±2 time zones from Mountain Time (i.e. UTC-05:00 to UTC-09:00)