Director, Development

HealthStream is the leader in healthcare workforce solutions. We help organizations work better by helping their people work smarter, delivering leading learning, clinical development, credentialing, and scheduling applications on healthcare’s #1 platform.

Why Join Us

At HealthStream, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of healthcare by collaborating with a team of talented professionals dedicated to innovation and excellence. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment where creativity and collaboration thrive.

Position Information

Position Overview

This is a management and technical position. In addition to management responsibilities, a Director of Development will serve as the technical lead of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) product development group. The group manages three distinct healthcare software products: CloudCME, Rievent, and eeds, which together enable healthcare organizations to manage the full lifecycle of continuing medical education.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for adhering to all HealthStream security policies, procedures, and assigned training.

Leadership

• Provide technical leadership including consensus building and architectural decisions for software development teams
• Lead the technical design process for HealthStream applications and enhancements
• Coordinate technical projects with other technical disciplines within HealthStream IT
• Ensure software development teams adhere to HealthStream standards, processes, and best practices for software development and support efforts to define and update department policies
• Oversee the recruiting and hiring of software developers
• Mentor, support and retain junior managers and software developers
• Evaluate the performance of junior managers and software developers
• Support efforts to allocate software development personnel among projects
• Work with managers and software developers to establish and achieve career development goals for scoped reporting structure
• Ensure teams within purview consistently use AI productivity tooling to enhance delivery and quality

Operational/Troubleshooting

• Oversee and support the delivery and deployment of software releases to pre-production and production environments
• Define, organize and provide ongoing support for software applications in pre-production and production environments
• Coordinate rapid response and resolution for high-priority software application defects and operational issues
• Provide input to senior management on budgetary and organizational concerns
• Lead investigation, diagnosis, and mitigation of software application failures and defects

Communication

• Work with business stakeholders to refine and inform the requirements for software application features and enhancements
• Communicate technical design details and provide clear guidance and complexity estimates for proposed software applications, features, and enhancements
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance on key focus areas and appropriate strategies for testing software application features, enhancements, and defect fixes
• Continuously consult and collaborate with architects, software developers, QA analysts and others on technical design, practices and emerging technologies

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in software development
• At least 4 years of experience as a development leader providing oversight of development teams
• Demonstrated success in management and growth of direct reports
• Experience working with agile development processes; Agile SCRUM experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred; commensurate experience or advanced industry technical certification also considered
• Experience managing third‑party software vendors and contractors, and successful management of contract or offshore development resources
• In‑depth knowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD practices
• Working experience with Salesforce platform development, database design, and complex data models; Salesforce certification preferred
• Experience in healthcare technology; familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, HIPAA) preferred
• Experience implementing integrations with third‑party systems and external applications
• Frontend development
  • React (TypeScript preferred)
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Component‑based UI architecture and state management
• Backend / service development
  • Python and/or C#/.NET Core
  • RESTful API design and implementation
  • Microservices architecture and event‑driven patterns
• Cloud and infrastructure (AWS)
  • ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway
  • RDS (PostgreSQL or Aurora), S3, SQS/SNS
  • IAM, VPC, and cloud security fundamentals
• Data and analytics
  • Snowflake data warehousing
  • SQL querying and performance tuning
  • Data pipeline design and ETL/ELT patterns
• DevOps and source control
  • GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines
  • Azure DevOps (work item tracking)
  • Docker/containerization
  • Infrastructure‑as‑code concepts (Terraform or equivalent)
• Integration technologies
  • REST, JSON, XML, OAuth 2.0
  • Webhooks, API gateway patterns
  • FHIR / HL7 familiarity a plus
• Development practices
  • SOLID development principles
  • Object‑oriented and functional design patterns
  • Code review, refactoring, and technical debt management
  • Security vulnerabilities and secure programming techniques
• Software architecture
  • Architecture modeling and documentation
  • Distributed systems design patterns
  • Platform consolidation and legacy modernization strategies
• Investigate new tools and technologies and advocate for their use in HealthStream software development
• Exhibit appropriate attention to time management, professional conduct and adherence to corporate policies within scope of influence
• Proactively identify and mitigate interpersonal issues and work towards conflict resolution
• Able to put personal opinion aside and compromise to achieve outcomes that consider the strategic direction of leadership and the company
• Balance multiple concurrent projects while delegating tasks at an appropriate level
• Effectively communicate with those outside of the immediate team to collaborate and coordinate on common concerns
• Actively break down silos and foster a team spirit by referencing successes and failures in collective terms rather than by individual, function or role
• Think through options when faced with challenges that need guidance and present those options to leadership with related pros and cons
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills when devising solution outcomes that balance risk, scope, timeline and compromise

Compensation

Salary range: $131,182 - $185,000, determined by candidate level of experience and qualifications.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• 401k and Roth
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Short‑ and Long‑Term Disability
• Medical Bridge Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Identity Protection
• Legal Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Fitness Reimbursement

Recruitment Fraud Notice

HealthStream is committed to protecting job seekers from recruitment fraud. All legitimate communications from HealthStream’s Talent Acquisition team will come from an official HealthStream email address. HealthStream will never ask candidates to pay fees, purchase equipment, provide banking information, or share sensitive personal information outside of our secure hiring and onboarding process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from HealthStream, please proceed with caution and report it to the appropriate authorities.

Req #46964