Health Catalyst
Website:
healthcatalyst.com
Job details:
The healthcare industry is the next great frontier of opportunity for software development, and Health Catalyst is one of the most dynamic and influential companies in this space. We are working on solving national-level healthcare problems, and this is your chance to improve the lives of millions of people, including your family and friends. Health Catalyst is a fast-growing company that values smart, hardworking, and humble individuals. Each product team is a small, mission-critical team focused on developing innovative tools to support Catalyst’s mission to improve healthcare performance, cost, and quality.
Health Catalyst is expanding and maintains a large suite of Improvement Apps that contribute to healthcare analytics and process improvement solutions. This includes products that manage the care of health system populations, better serve patients at the point of care, reduce health system costs, and reduce clinician workload.
Job Summary:
As a Lead SDE, you will be working with diverse Improvement Apps, software engineering team designing, developing, and maintaining various platforms that serve internal HCAT team members, clinicians, and patients. You will rely on Test-Driven Development to safely enhance and refactor our system, shipping production code multiple times per week. And you will go to bed each night with the comfort that your code is improving outcomes for patients.
If you love…
Help drive clarity and prototype individual features or problems
Knowledge of architecture patterns and the ability to design and complete features / tasks that are 50-60% well defined.
Can discern where gaps can be filled in without consulting a Product Manager or another programmer and can judge when a consultation is needed.
Work is reviewed with the occasional need for material direction or implementation changes
Seeks and provides guidance via PR reviews, pair-programming and other interactions with Engineers and Product Managers
It is second nature to develop high code quality standards balanced with the needs of real-world customer timelines.
Possesses a passion and drive to deliver exceptional products and follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease.
Takes ownership of learning and growth
Capitalizes on internal and external opportunities for learning.
Identifies gaps in knowledge/skills and seeks ways to close those gaps (self-guided learning, pairing, seeking guidance for yourself and developing guidance for less experienced members of the team)
Periodic On Call Rotation
Ability to communicate with Customer Success about customer issues that are escalated to Engineering and help quantify customer impact.
Can Respond quickly to operational emergencies, find short term resolutions and plan long term fixes to avoid similar issues in the future.
What you own in the role:
- 8–10 years of hands-on software development experience with deep proficiency in .NET (C#) — including ASP.NET Core, Web API design, dependency injection, and async programming patterns
- Strong frontend engineering skills in Angular — component architecture, RxJS, state management, lazy loading, and performance optimization
- Solid experience building and deploying on Microsoft Azure — including App Services, Azure Functions, API Management, Azure SQL, and CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps
- Strong command of SQL — complex query design, query optimization, stored procedures, and working with relational databases such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL
- Experience with RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and service integration patterns
- Proficiency in Git-based workflows — branching strategies, PR reviews, and release management in team settings
- Comfortable in modern development environments such as Visual Studio, VS Code, or JetBrains Rider
Good to Have
- Exposure to Databricks — notebooks, Delta Lake, or integration patterns between data engineering and application layers
- Familiarity with cloud data pipelines and how analytical data surfaces into product features
- Understanding of healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7) is a meaningful plus in our domain
Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities
- Technical leadership presence — able to set direction, make architectural calls with confidence, and bring the team along through clarity and reasoning, not just authority
- Strong communicator — equally effective writing a design doc, presenting a tradeoff to a non-technical stakeholder, or giving structured feedback to a junior engineer in a code review
- Collaborative by default — thrives in cross-functional environments; builds trust across Engineering, QA, Product, and Data teams without siloing
- Outcome-oriented — keeps the team focused on what ships and what matters, not just what's technically interesting
- Mentorship mindset — actively invests in the growth of engineers around them; sees raising the team's ceiling as part of the job, not a distraction from it
- Calm under pressure — brings structured thinking to ambiguous or high-stakes situations; can context-switch between strategic planning and hands-on problem solving when needed
What you bring to this role:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of C#/.Net/ Angular / Microservices/ DS&A
- Strong working knowledge of CI/CD
- Strong knowledge of and experience with cloud (azure)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy, in a timely manner
- Adept at constructing efficient queries, writing reports and presenting findings
- Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- 8+ years work experience as a app developer
- BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a similar field
- An understanding of healthcare data is a plus, but not a requirement
You may also bring:
Experience with cloud infrastructure and architecture patterns, either Azure or AWS preferred.
Software development experience within healthcare IT and understands key data models (clinical, claims, financial, etc.) and interoperability standards such as HL7v2, CDA, EMR, and FHIR
Knowledge of healthcare compliance and how it applies to Application Security
Agile/Scrum software development practices
Business Intelligence or Data warehousing experience
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Health Catalyst, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualification without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship status, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.. Health Catalyst is committed to a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity..
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