Software Developer III - Next.js and Sanity

Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and make a lasting, meaningful impact on patient care. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.      

As a Software Developer at Cleveland Clinic, you will be responsible for the design, documentation, coding, unit testing, systems testing, and deployment of software applications. In this role, you will work independently while mentoring junior developers and collaborating closely with project managers, analysts, leaders, and clinicians to gather ongoing feedback that informs design and development. You will apply advanced knowledge of computer science or software engineering, along with modern development practices, to deliver high-quality, user-focused solutions. This position requires deep, hands-on expertise in building modern production web platforms using Next.js, React, and Sanity CMS, with proven experience delivering complex applications on an enterprise scale. You will serve as a senior individual contributor and technical mentor, participating in architecture decisions, performance optimization, content modeling, and the evolution of a multi-application frontend ecosystem.

This position contributes to our mission to increase the number of patients we serve by supporting the transition to a modern CMS that enables faster content delivery and more efficient workflows for writers and content creators.

A caregiver in this role works remotely from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Design, develop, and implement software applications, focusing on robustness, reusability, and integration with existing systems

• Responsible for developing new software and proofing/testing the development to ensure production of a quality product.

• Regularly engage in software performance optimization.

• Analyze current programs and processes.

• Make recommendations which yield a more cost-effective product and better streamlined workflows.

• Support team strategy in development approach.

• Iterate with team members around design and development.

• Provide technical support to other developers when project support is needed including the design of relational databases, client-side programming strategies using the latest JavaScript frameworks.

• Determine and communicate the implications of system-level decisions on subsystems and components.

• Determine how best to mitigate or take advantage of these implications.

• Make presentations to clinicians and hospital leaders.

• Observe workflow.

• Translate clinical problems into innovative healthcare solutions.

• Gather business and application specific requirements.

• Ensure all requirements are met as well as maintained within defined project scope.

• Determine whether a particular problem is caused by hardware, operating systems software, application programs, or network failures and supporting as necessary.

• Operate independently on complex technical initiatives while mentoring junior and mid-level engineers. 

• Translate ambiguous product, marketing, and clinical workflows into robust technical solutions. 

• Drive technical standards, architectural consistency, and best practices across the team. 

• Partner effectively with designers, product managers, QA, DevOps, and clinical stakeholders. 

• Maintain high quality standards in security, performance, accessibility, and reliability.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

• Seven years of software development experience

• Experience with: SOA development using SOAP and REST; mobile application development and associated libraries

• Proven track record of enterprise architecture experience with large volume, high availability enterprise applications

• Strong knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, GIT, and other related tools

• Proven ability to transition between different technologies and programming languages.

• Experience in interfacing with internal and external customers

• Advanced experience building production applications using Next.js and React with strong command of server-side rendering, routing strategies, caching, streaming, performance optimization, accessibility, and SEO

• Experience operating within large monorepos and shared component libraries.

• Deep experience designing and maintaining Sanity schemas, structured content models, GROQ queries, custom previews, studio extensions, and publishing workflows 

• Proven ability to integrate Sanity into complex frontend architectures and support scalable editorial workflows across multiple sites and teams

• Experience designing reusable systems, libraries, and frameworks that scale across teams

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Experience with hospital or medical systems

• Experience in healthcare software development

• Strong experience in technologies including Sanity, Next.js, and React

• Hands-on experience integrating AI APIs into production applications, including prompt orchestration, evaluation, observability, and responsible usage patterns

• Experience building developer tooling or application features that leverage AI for automation, search, content enrichment, or decision support

• Experience building or consuming MCP servers or similar orchestration layers for AI tools and services

• Strong understanding of service contracts, authentication, error handling, and observability in distributed systems

• Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or high-compliance platforms

• Experience with content platforms, publishing workflows, and multi-site architecture

• Familiarity with observability tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployments

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to perform work in a stationary position for extended periods.

• Ability to travel throughout the hospital system.

• Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment.

• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster. 

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.