Software Developer, Senior

at  LifeLabs

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Date: Apr 4, 2024
Location: BC, CA
Company: LifeLabs
LifeLabs is the largest community diagnostics laboratory in Canada, serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for over 50 years. Our team members are truly centred around our customers, and we know that behind every lab requisition, sample being tested, or investment in technology is an individual and their family counting on us.
Consistently named one of Canada’s Best Employers by Forbes, LifeLabs has also been recognized for having an award-winning Mental Health Program from Benefits Canada. The passion and commitment of over 6,000 diverse and innovative team members unites and motivates us to ensure our customers receive high quality tests and results that they can trust. Agile, customer-centred, caring and teamwork: we live these values every day in what we do to support our customers and healthcare providers, driving forward our vision of empowering a healthier you.
Reports to: Director IT

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Works closely with the Senior Manager, Software Development / Applications, architects, external development vendors and team members to design and implement new module-level solutions in all areas of the applications, as well as maintain existing solutions, critical to Excelleris operations.
• Implements software that is highly scalable and highly available, as well as following guidelines to develop secure code and adhere to security best practices. Provide timely updates, escalate issues, and keep work-items up to date.
• Works according to documented SDLC, providing feedback and input into SDLC as needed, and supporting automation of SDLC tasks as required.
• Works occasionally as a mentor for the other team member providing guidance for best software practices, and improving team collaboration.
• Collaborates with Project Managers, external development vendors, Business Analysts and other project team members to implement module-level solutions as per requirements, clarifying details as needed and determining appropriate solution design.
• Plans for, executes solution deployments, and supports production and non-production environments for mission critical applications. Provides customer focused support and troubleshoots and resolves problems and issues, in line with documented service levels.
• Works with team to find solutions to critical issues.
• Creates and updates appropriate software design and architecture documents, ensures implementation details and source code are sufficiently documented, and manages and maintains TFS user stories, tasks, etc. as needed.
• Performs unit testing of developed components, implements automated unit tests, regression test integrated components. Executes performance tests, and optimizes solutions as required.
• Prototypes with new technologies, libraries, design patterns, emerging trends in software design and development.

The Software Engineer is accountable for all facets of the software development process. They are a technical subject matter expertise and provides leadership when it comes to the design of application modules. They maintain and deploy software applications to meet user and business needs as well as conducts system-wide tests, provides customer and user technical support, and monitors system performance to ensure that software programs are operating optimally.
In addition, the Software Engineer works with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Software Engineers, external development vendors and other developers to coordinate the development of processes to meet delivery deadlines.nitiatives.