Company Overview

At Navigating Cancer, our mission is to improve the lives of cancer patients and those who care for them. We enable oncology clinics to provide personalized, efficient care to every patient by providing relevant educational materials, giving the whole care team visibility to patient issues and needs, and delivering useful insights so that care teams can identify and resolve gaps in care. Through our platform, patients receive a holistic service offering to support their individual goals and needs.

Our company is backed by industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings and currently supports over a million patients, thousands of care providers, dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers, and several payer models nationwide to lower costs, improve patient satisfaction, and drive better outcomes.

Job Summary

As a core member of the Interoperability team at Navigating Cancer, you will:

• Work on all aspects of our interoperability platform.
• Develop strong healthcare technology and industry domain knowledge.
• Invest in meaningful work to enhance the workflow process and operations of cancer care providers (physicians, nurses, social workers and others) as they provide care to patients.
• Lead by example to grow our team’s continuous improvement, code quality, and software craftsmanship.
• Mentor teammates across the seniority spectrum in best practices, and provide actionable, empathetic feedback and guidance throughout our engineering organization.
• Investigate data related issues to determine root cause and implement process improvements and solutions.
• Become an advocate for growing, improving, and evolving our data platform and its use across our technology platform.
• Coordinate with and support our customer success teams to ensure the smooth and timely on-boarding of customers to the NavigatingCare platform.
• Seek opportunities to open our platform to more Oncology practices and create innovative integration solutions and tools.
• Provide support for our existing software systems to identify and fix software issues.
• Make recommendations for improvement in processes.

Tools & Technologies

We use an ever evolving set of tools and technologies to build our data platform:

• Java
• Python 
• Ruby & Rspec
• Javascript
• Git
• SQL Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Mirth Connect Interoperability Engine
• HL7 v2 and v3
• RESTful APIs and web services
• Async Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ)
• AWS RDS and AWS Glue
• DevOps tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible)

 
Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years developing with Java or Python. Open to learning new languages like Ruby and Javascript
• 4+ years developing Rest API
• 2+ years working with big data tools like Hadoop & Spark
• 2+ years working with AWS
• 2+ Experience with ETL (Extract Transform Load) systems and tools
• Proficiency with SQL relational databases and writing medium complex queries
• An understanding of object-oriented design fundamentals and best practices
• A bias for action, and experience making things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excitement for the mission of Navigating Cancer and improving the lives of cancer patients
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams, with customers, and outside integration vendors
• Strong problem solving skills

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with FHIR, and/or other related technologies such as OMOP
• Working knowledge of healthcare data in the cloud, healthcare data hub/pipeline (S3, Aurora, Glue)
• Experience with Mirth Connect or other integration engine
• Experience with Data Catalog or Data Quality Frameworks

Why Work Here?

We support thousands of healthcare professionals and tens of thousands of cancer patients every day. We help cancer patients get better care—and consider this a valuable and meaningful reason to come to work every day. You get to work with leading technology, wear many hats, and contribute daily to our business success! You get to help us grow and establish ourselves as a world-class business. We are lean, agile, and lightweight. We believe in each other, believe in our work, and have fun along the way.

This position is full time; work may be completed remotely or in our downtown Seattle office. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and a fantastic work environment. Come join our team and make a difference!

Our Values:

Work with Purpose. Work together to improve the lives of cancer patients. Collaborate with team members, have passion, enthusiasm and mission for the work that we do.

Act with Integrity. Communicate openly, be honest, follow through.

Be Agile. Discover creative solutions, welcome change. Adapt and pursue continuous improvement.

Seek Simplicity. Reduce complexity for our customers and patients. Simplify our products, our processes and our messages.

Strive for Growth. Constantly strive to achieve personal, professional, and company goals. Continuous reflection, learning and achievement.