Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Developer

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a greenfield software product that will be used directly by customers and generate new revenue opportunities for our organization.

Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Effectiveness (CE) organization is a fast-growing and innovation-driven healthcare information technology (HIT) provider working on the front lines of clinical care. Our talented team of physician editors, technologists, and product visionaries collaborate to provide advanced clinical decision support solutions that measurably improve clinical effectiveness by helping healthcare professionals provide optimal care for their patients. Its flagship product, UpToDate, is trusted by over 1 million clinicians in over 170 countries to make the best decisions at the point of patient care. Net Promoter Scores consistently fall in the high-70s, largely due to the unrivaled breadth and depth of its evidence-based content. More than 60 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced lengths of stay, adverse complications, and mortality. As a mission-based organization committed to getting things right, we’re investing in cutting edge healthcare technology solutions to meet the strategic needs of our customers.

We are seeking a talented, collaborative, high-energy individual who has deep and diverse technology expertise along with the ability to drive this transformation at multiple levels within the organization. The ideal candidate has significant experience building large web frontend products that are high-quality, reliable, accessible, and delightful to use.

Responsibilities:

1. Build, maintain, enhance, and extend Wolters Kluwer’s customer facing web applications built using MS Power Apps.
2. Collaborate across teams within Clinical Effectiveness to deliver a consistent user experience across our suite of products.
3. Work with the product owners and user experience team to understand, design, and size new product features and enhancements.
4. Use Responsive Design techniques to create an optimal user experience from a single code base for all devices from smartphones to tablets to laptops.
5. Use Vue and/or other modern tools to implement highly functional and fast user interfaces.
6. Collaborate with software test engineers to develop deep and thorough test coverage.
7. Collaborate with user experience team to determine and implement the best solutions for the customer.
8. Plan and execute tasks within an Agile/Scrum environment.
9. Follow existing (and develop new) best practices and standards for coding and frontend development.
10. Collaborate with and mentor other engineers to ensure the team fosters a culture of engineering excellence.
11. Remain current with evolving industry trends and technologies related to frontend development and user experience. Advocate for adopting those of which would provide lasting benefit to the product by effectively communicating the costs and benefits to other engineers and product managers.

Experience:

1. Bachelors degree in Information technology or equivalent work experience.
2. 5+ years of frontend development experience.
3. 3+ years working with frontend build tools such as Vite or Webpack.
4. 3+ years writing JavaScript unit tests.
5. Expert knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
6. Expert knowledge working with at least one modern JavaScript framework such as VueJS, React, or Angular.
7. Knowledge of user experience design philosophies, best practices, and methods.
8. Knowledge web accessibility best-practices or standards – practical experience a plus.

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

1. Experience using MS Power Apps is a plus.
2. Software engineering experience in the healthcare industry a plus.
3. Experience with Microsoft Power Pages (Power Apps Portals) a plus.
4. Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure a plus.
5. Familiarity with authentication technologies such as SAML or OAuth/OpenID Connect a plus.

Benefits:

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available - here .

Diversity Matters

Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

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