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Software Engineer

Concerro is the only workforce management system that improves quality of life and the bottom line for hospitals. Concerro delivers workforce and emergency management programs that facilitate collaboration, ease of use and real-time information access to improve the cost, efficiency and safety of patient care in over 500 hospitals nationwide. Concerro’s business model is to deliver software and services via Cloud Computing (Software-as-a-Service) as a monthly subscription with multi-year contracts. The company has won numerous awards and recognition, including; being named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 in 2008 and 2009 as one of the most rapidly growing privately-held companies and Top 100 Software Companies; receiving Red Herring’s 100 most promising private technology ventures in North America award; and earning a Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) award.

Position Summary:

Concerro is seeking a creative, hard-working individual to join its San Diego team as a Software Engineer.  You’ll be based in the San Diego office. If you’re the right fit, you’ll thrive in a supportive environment that’s low on hierarchy and high on team-based collaboration.  This position reports to the Director of Software Engineering.This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to work with an exciting product in a growing market. 

Key Activities:

  • Development Skills

    • Significant experience in agile development
    • Knowledge of enterprise-level deployment issues
    • Deeply understand relevant tools and technologies and provides sound recommendations on their use
    • Demonstrated ability to complete assignments within deadlines
    • Leverages their knowledge of software lifecycle approaches and rapid application development
    • Work closely with manager to adapt development methodologies to Concerro’s best practices
    • Responsibilities include design and implementation of new features for the product.
    • Additional responsibilities include software maintenance, architecture and process improvement, and technical documentation.  

    Project Planning and Scoping

    • Actively manage scope at the component level and identifies alternatives
    • Quickly evaluate complexity and risk involved in modifying requirements
    • Estimation
    • Effectively and accurately estimate application scope on component level
    • Assess how project risks will impact estimates

    Communication

    • Strong ability to communicate effectively with less technically-oriented (or software-oriented) designers and clients
    • Consults with client services team and product management team and maintains strategic relationship
    • Communicates difficult scenarios to the client services team and product management team
    • Facilitates meetings with the client services team and product management team
    • Coaches and provides assistance to those at Concerro who are less familiar with software development

    Additional Skills Required:

    • A minimum of 3 years professional Java programming experience.
    • Experience developing on at least one major application server (we use JBoss)
    • Strong knowledge of SQL and JDBC.
    • Experience with JSP & XML.
    • The ability to be productive in a UNIX/Linux environment.
    • Experience producing technical documentation.
    • 5 years of professional programming experience.
    • Experience with JasperReports a strong plus.
    • Experience with Adobe Flex 3 and ActionScript 3 a strong plus.
    • Experience with MySQL a strong plus.
    • Experience integrating with / interfacing to third party applications a plus.
    • Experience with Ant a plus.
    • Ability to sit for extended periods of time

    A bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related subject) is strongly preferred, but we will consider candidates who can demonstrate exceptional skill and/or experience in the field.

    All our qualified applicants are tested on required technical skills and may be asked to give an informal presentation to the engineering team.  Presenting your thoughts to your peers is an essential part of this role and will be strongly considered in our selection process.


    Interested and qualified candidates should email their resume named YourLastName.doc in Word format to careers@concerro.com. Please put the job title in the subject line.