Job Description

Status

Full-Time

Standard Hours per Week

40

Job Posting Category

Information Technology, Research

Job Posting Description

Department Summary
Are you looking to make a global impact by working on leading-edge, open-source software and emerging standards for healthcare? The Computational Health Informatics Program (chip.org) at Boston Children's Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking an experienced full stack developer to join the SMART Health IT team (smarthealthit.org).

You will build software that brings AI capabilities and multimodal data to the point of care for children with chronic disease, across a research network of leading U.S. children's hospitals. The work turns clinical notes, imaging, labs, genomics, and structured EHR data into the systems clinicians, researchers, and families actually use.

As a member of the team that defined the national standards for SMART on FHIR and Bulk FHIR, now embedded in every major EHR, you will be at the center of data and AI innovation in healthcare.

About you:

• Strong software engineering foundation. You ship high-quality, well-tested, well-documented code at scale.
• Solid grounding in data architectures, databases, and cloud-native software design.
• You operate well with autonomy. Given context and a goal, you self-direct and surface trade-offs early.
• Motivated to learn. Curious about new tools, standards, AI methods, and problem domains.
• Committed to open source and to building things that get widely used.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with clinicians, researchers, and engineers to translate user needs into engineering plans, weighing effort against impact.
• Design and build backend services that turn large-scale clinical data into research-ready and AI-ready data products.
• Build APIs and reference clients that demonstrate the platform's capabilities to clinical, research, and public health partners.
• Contribute to and represent open standards. Present at conferences, collaborate with developers from peer institutions, and help shape the next generation of FHIR and SMART specifications.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Master's preferred

Experience:

• Bachelor's and 7 years' experience or Master's and 4 years of related experience
• Practical experience with Python, JavaScript, and SQL.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Athena, Presto, BigQuery, Airflow, Parquet).
• Strong knowledge of Linux and *nix ecosystems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• A link to your work on GitHub or comparable public work.
• Hands-on experience building infrastructure in the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) preferred.
• Comfort working across tech stacks. Working knowledge of Node.js and modern front-end development preferred.
• Background with healthcare data formats and APIs (FHIR, SMART, HL7 v2) preferred.
• Experience with AI or machine learning workflows, including LLM and multimodal pipeline preferred.

Office/Site Location

Boston

Regular, Temporary, Per Diem

Regular

Remote Eligibility

Part Remote/Hybrid

Pay Range

$99153.60-$158631.20 Annual