InterSystems IRIS/HealthConnect/HealthShare Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 11, 2025.
Company Description
J2 Interactive is an award-winning software development and IT consulting firm, consisting of nearly 300 professionals in 3 countries, specializing in customized solutions for health systems, research institutions, labs, and health information exchanges. We believe that systems succeed or fail based on how well they serve the people who depend upon them. That includes physicians, nurses, technicians, and administrative staff, plus patients and their families.
At J2 we get a lot of satisfaction out of helping our customers succeed, and we want people with that same commitment to getting the job done right. We’re not afraid to give people the responsibility of working directly with clients, defining project specs, and choosing implementation strategies. Our casual work environment and telecommuting options give our staff a high quality of life to go along with the technical and creative challenges of the work itself.
Generally speaking, we are looking to hire full-time, salaried employees. But if you're a freelancer and want to stay that way, we're open to discussing a contract position as long as we can get a stable, predictable full-time commitment from you.
Benefits
- The ability to telecommute from your home office
- Aggressive employee profit-sharing program
- Voluntary 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4% of salary
- Medical, dental and vision insurance, with 55% of costs paid by J2
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid for by J2
- Laptop and required software provided by J2
- Annual ski trip that will make you wonder how you found this awesome company
If you're interested in joining our team, we invite you to submit your resume so we can take a look. We move fast ... so if you've got what we're looking for, you'll be amazed at how quickly you might have yourself a new job that you'll love.
Job Description
J2 Interactive is looking for qualified candidates to help us on challenging data integration and health information exchange projects utilizing InterSystems IRIS and HealthShare. Since 2007, we've been delivering large-scale implementations for a variety of customers including small and large health systems, public HIE’s, and federal agencies. We also do extensive work in IRIS application development both inside and outside the healthcare industry.
The roles on our implementation teams are quite diverse, and the range of skills and abilities we need to bring to these projects is very broad. The ideal candidate will possess not only the required technical knowledge and capabilities, but will need the skills necessary for designing robust and innovative solutions. We value candidates who have extremely strong communication skills and can work in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
Though our headquarters is located in Charlestown (Boston), MA, this is a telecommuting position open to anyone who's eligible to work in the US.
Candidates must be willing to submit to a background check. No recruiters or third party solicitations please.
Skills Description
Candidates for this position must have at least two years’ experience with InterSystems IRIS and/or HealthShare. If you don’t have this experience, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for you at J2 but it does mean you should apply for one of our other positions instead of this one.
We do the vast majority of our work in healthcare, so healthcare industry experience is critically important for most of our project assignments. So if you’re coming at the position as a healthcare IT expert, we’ll expect you to bring significant experience (5+ years would be ideal) in healthcare IT, preferably with a strong knowledge of healthcare data integration (HL7, CCD, C-CDA, FHIR, X12, etc.). Anyone possessing real experience with InterSystems HealthShare or TrakCare is going to get special consideration.
If you’re presenting yourself as more of an IRIS application developer, then healthcare experience is not strictly necessary but the strength of your application will rest on the depth and breadth of your experience with Caché Object Script. We’re looking for people who have legitimate experience as a software developer and who understand object-oriented programming, service-oriented architectures, and other concepts central to developing robust, scalable, distributed applications. If you know IRIS, then you know that not everyone with a MUMPS / Caché Object Script background meets this standard. If you have experience with other programming languages and environments (Java, Python, JavaScript Frameworks, SQL, .NET, C#, C, C++ etc.), and particularly if you are a strong web application developer (UI layer or middleware), that’s going to be a plus. We especially welcome applications from anyone who knows both IRIS and modern web/mobile frameworks.