Location
Downtown Toronto
Start Date, Terms
Immediately, permanent
Description
Healthscreen Solutions Inc. (www.healthscreen.com ) creates leading medical software (“HSPractice”) for doctors in Ontario and beyond. Located in downtown Toronto, the Company serves thousands of physicians and handles more than $1.5 billion in healthcare
transactions a year.
HSPractice provides a complete, efficient and flexible Electronic Medical Record, billing and scheduling system to handle every aspect of a doctor’s medical practice. Developed by a physician and refined by hundreds of practitioners over the past decade, HSpractice
understands that each physician has his or her unique requirements to enhance their own medical practice. HSPractice has developed a leading position in the marketplace by delivering software that doctors can customize to get results.
Position Overview
Healthscreen is hiring a senior software craftsman (or craftperson!) that is “smart and gets things done”. We’re looking for a senior developer that enjoys working in a fast paced environment that’s highly customer focused. The successful candidate will have experience in Delphi (or a proven aptitude to learning new languages), has experience in working with large, business critical applications. Experience in refactoring and a very attentive eye to quality are great skills that we value and hope you do as well.
Healthscreen’s technology team is fast paced, friendly but demanding. We’re very picky about our applicants as we see the value in finding the right person, not just any person. We believe in agile software development practices. We run both internal build systems as well as cloud based ones. We’re an 11 out of 12 on the joel test and always look to get better. We write tests AND documentation because we understand the value and purpose of both! We love to code and expect you do as well.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and document HSPractice improvements + new features.
- Conduct platform architecture refactoring where needed.
- Provide senior level developer guidance to junior team members as a mentor.
- Learn, absorb, and evangelize new technologies and methodologies.
- Communicate with customer (both internal and external) to assist technology team in identifying and translate customer feedback into profitable product features.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering stream preferred) with excellent grades.
- Experience with the Delphi is near mandatory however we will entertain extremely bright applicants that are able to learn quickly.
- Must enjoy working with Agile / XP work processes including prototyping, code reviews, continuous integration, test driven development and frequent iterative releases.
- Must communicate well both written and verbally.
- Must be uncommonly attentive to detail.
- Candidates with any kind of past electronic medical record experience preferred.
- Must be a good typist (after all, we’re all just typist in the end, right?).
- Experience with using NANT, MSBUILD, Delphi, CruiseControl, SVN, InstallAware is highly valuable.
- OO Design (Usecases, Patterns, Refactoring, etc.).
- Strong abilities in SQL (MySQL is our current target but any of the following are also valuable: MSSQL, Sybase, or Oracle).
Hours / Compensation
- 40 hours per week. Must be flexible to work some evenings and weekends, if required.
- Compensation package includes competitive wages in line with a candidates’ work experience, performance bonuses, stock options and a comprehensive health benefits program.
- Building is directly accessible via subway at the Bay station on the bloor line in downtown Toronto.
Contact Details
Interested candidates with the necessary qualifications can send their resume to resumes@healthscreen.com , with ‘Senior HS Practice Developer’ in the subject line.