Lead Product Software Engineer
Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Effectiveness (CE) organization is a fast-growing and innovation-driven healthcare information technology (HIT) provider working on the front lines of clinical care. Our talented team of physician editors, technologists, and product visionaries collaborate to provide advanced clinical decision support solutions that measurably improve clinical effectiveness by helping healthcare professionals provide optimal care for their patients. Its flagship product, UpToDate, is trusted by over 1 million clinicians in over 170 countries to make the best decisions at the point of patient care. Net Promoter Scores consistently fall in the high-70s, largely due to the unrivaled breadth and depth of its evidence-based content. More than 60 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced lengths of stay, adverse complications and mortality. A SaaS-based product, UpToDate is a critical component of the clinical workflow when embedded in today’s electronic health record systems. In fact, 93% of clinicians surveyed say embedding UpToDate in their electronic health record systems is important to patient care, and 91% say it improves clinician satisfaction. As a mission-based organization committed to getting things right, we’re investing in cutting edge healthcare technology solutions to meet the strategic needs of our customers. This role will support the team in achieving its development roadmap goals, reporting to the Manager of Product Engineering. This role will involve advanced coding, system design, and optimizing software solutions that enhance our product performance and usability. This person will ensure quality outcomes and drive technological innovations. Essential Duties and responsibilities ROLES \& RESPONSIBILITIES: From a technology perspective, this role will fully engage as an engineer on project work, while ensuring the team and tech stack is staying current with new and emerging technologies. From a leadership perspective, while this role will have zero direct reports, there is an expectation that they will spend time training and training and elevating Associate and Senior engineers. Responsibilities: Join a development team (scrum team), providing engineering best practices, leadership, and best practices to help ensure project deadlines and roadmap objectives are met. Mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner while seeking out mentoring opportunities. Design services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Foster a culture of delivering praise and constructive feedback within their team while actively demonstrating these behaviors. Consistently helps their teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Keep current with new and emerging technologies, and ensure relevant information is both socialized with the other engineers, as well as advocated for to use within technology stack. Rotate through primary and secondary operational support and participate in product incident management. Job Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s in computer science (or related field) or equivalent experience. Basic Qualifications Overall experience of 10+ years with 3+ years in leading and mentoring a team as Technical Lead. Strong Java and JavaScript programming skills. Experience with one or more multiple server-side Java development technologies and tools such as Tomcat, Servlets, Spring, Jersey, JDBC, MyBatis, XML, JSON, JMS, ActiveMQ. Experience using HTML/CSS/VueJS or other JavaScript frameworks to implement modular, high performance, and functional user interfaces. Experience with VueJS or other JavaScript frameworks is a plus. Knowledge of common design patterns, design principles , Object Oriented Design and industry best practices. Experience with API design, Microservice architecture, Cloud technologies and REST principles. Experience with automated unit and integration testing and SDLC tools like Jenkins, Sonarqube, JIRA, GIT, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, and Gradle. Experience utilizing cloud native technologies to deliver software solutions, especially refactoring legacy systems to be cloud native Strong ability to plan, commit, and deliver work for an entire project Comfortable working with relational database engines (Oracle, Couchbase preferred) Experience working in an agile scrum environment Demonstrated success leading and mentoring engineers, providing feedback, doing code reviews, and working to build a happy and successful team Preferred Qualifications Experience in developing and troubleshooting database stored procedures and SQL performance tuning Experience/Strong willingness to leverage AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot/Amazon Q/Amazon Code/Amazon Whisperer/Microsoft IntelliCode/Claude Code/Cursor is a huge plus. Proficient in command-line and shell scripts Ability to collaborate well on a cross-functional team Ability to imagine yourself in the customer’s shoes Knowledge of cloud technology (e.g. Azure) Knowledge of application security practices Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications: Azure or other Cloud technology certifications are a plus. Industry experience in the health care sector is a plus. Approaches work with a strong sense of urgency and leads team to have the same drive. TraVEl requirements 0 – 5% depending on geographical location. Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process Our Interview PracticesTo maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.