Software Enginee - FHIR & Healthcare APIs

Northwell Health is hiring a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain reliable software solutions for FHIR and healthcare APIs. The role contributes to system design, API and data integrations, application quality, and collaboration across the engineering team.

What you'll do:

• Designs and develops solutions to various problems either independently or in a team environment; designs and maintains efficient code that is reliable
• Forms technical documents such as a design specification document
• Utilizes NoSQL and relational databases by integrating data storage solutions. Utilizes Azure services such as, but not limited to, Functions, Logic Apps, App Services, Containers, Cosmos DB, and event hubs. Utilizes messaging patterns (REST, AMQP, Kafka, etc.) for system-to-system communication
• Ensures applications are performing at high capacity, responsiveness, and quality
• Finds solutions to reduce issues and defects
• Maintains that the platform's code and data are organized, automated, and of high quality
• Guides junior team members by recommending software design and development opportunities/best practices
• Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions

What they're looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience
• 1-3 years of relevant experience, required
• Demonstrated experience with API proxy design and configuration, including implementation and optimization of gateway policies such as rate limiting, spike arrest, and quota enforcement, as well as advanced fault handling and error flow management
• Strong command of HTTP response status code interpretation and application (e.g., 2xx success, 4xx client errors, 5xx server errors), with the ability to accurately diagnose and troubleshoot API behavior across the full request/response lifecycle
• Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting secure access protocols, including OAuth 2.0 authorization flows, JWT token generation and validation, API key management, and basic authentication schemes within enterprise-grade API ecosystems
• Proficiency with industry-standard GUI-based API client tools—such as Bruno, Postman, SoapUI, or Insomnia—for crafting, executing, and validating manual API requests, debugging payloads, and performing end-to-end integration testing across complex service architectures
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying, analyzing, and validating data across relational databases in support of back-end service development and troubleshooting, combined with hands-on experience leveraging Datadog for application performance monitoring (APM), log aggregation, dashboard creation, and real-time alerting to ensure API reliability and operational health