Department of Medicine at Stanford University is seeking a Software Developer 1 to work in a highly agile and productive IT application development team. As an integral part of this team, this position will execute all programming tasks, including programming, analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, modifying, and maintaining computer programs to enhance and transform business operations that support more than 800 faculty in patient care, scientific research, and medical education. This position will work on systems of small to moderate size and complexity or segments of larger systems that touches on dozens to thousands of users.
This is a remote position with the option to work from our Palo Alto office on a daily basis if preferred. The role requires travel to our Palo Alto office on short notice for occasional, infrequent meetings.
Core Duties
- Assess user needs and requirements.
- Design and develop applications that may involve sophisticated data manipulation.
- Maintain and update existing programs.
- Troubleshoot and solve technical problems.
- Create programs to meet reporting and analysis needs.
- Design and implement user and operations training programs.
- Document changes in software for end users.
- Follow team software development methodology.
- Serve as a technical resource with respect to applications.
Minimum Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree and three years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Working knowledge of latest software and design standards.
- Ability to define and solve logical problems for technical applications.
- Knowledge of and ability to select, adapt, and effectively use a variety of programming methods.
- Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures.
- Basic knowledge of software engineering principles.
- Strong knowledge of at least one programming language.