Autism Software Engineer Jobs in Kalamazoo, MI (NOW HIRING)

Company Summary:
Beacon is a successful and national behavioral health company providing residential-based services and supports to children and adults with Complex Behavioral Health conditions, Severe Mental Illness, Autism, and other compounding medical conditions. All activities related to this position must be delivered in compliance with the company's policies and procedures, accreditation standards, state and federal licensing requirements, HCBS guidelines, and the contractual requirements of Community Mental Health Agencies and other regulatory bodies. You are expected to be aligned with the goals and mission of the organization, and to perform in accordance with our "I CARE" core values of the organization - Integrity, Compassion, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence.
NOTE: **Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States**
Position Summary:
The Front-End Developer will assist with building Beacon Signal, our internal Insights and AI web application. Signal is a practice management and clinical intelligence platform - not a static reporting tool - pulling live data from our EHR, HRIS, ATS, and CRM systems to surface actionable insights for clinical and operations leaders across the company.
This position will build the interfaces clinical directors, program managers, and executives use every day: KPI dashboards, risk scoring tools, compliance trackers, and AI-generated insight summaries.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No supervisory responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
• Partner with our data engineers and AI engineers, building the front end for the pipelines and models they deliver.
• React-based front ends for dashboards, guided workflows, and admin tools within Beacon Signal.
• Node.js/JavaScript services (Azure Functions) supporting the front end.
• Integration with Cosmos DB-backed APIs and Entra ID authentication.
• Data-dense, visual interfaces (KPI gauges, tiered risk indicators, compliance scorecards) - clarity and information density over decoration.
• Help Create a Data Driven Workflow to drive response to data indicators and triggers.
• AI-powered features: summarization views, insight surfacing, and interfaces that consume outputs from our AI/RPA layer.
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Team Member Expectations:
• Must be compliant with company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Participate and contribute to weekly, bi-week or monthly leadership calls. Be prepared to report on applicable KPIs that best reflect the performance of your team.
• Preserve and protect the privacy, confidentiality and security of all medical records, proprietary and other confidential information relating to Beacon Specialized Living, its Individuals, Team Members, activities and affiliates, in accordance with all applicable laws (especially HIPAA) and contract terms.
• Promote Beacon in a positive manner and lead by example, modeling our core values in everyday behavior.
• Monitors and corrects employee gossip, harassment, favoritism, and other negative social workplace behaviors to ensure a positive and productive work environment.
• Understand how to approach and communicate with everyone at all levels.
• Treat everyone with dignity and respect while responding to their needs.
• Maintain and sustain a safe community environment and workplace.
• Apply trauma-Informed Care principals recognizing the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledging the role trauma may play in an individual's life.
• Promote trauma-informed care at all levels of the organization and help create a culture that is sensitive to the feelings of our Individuals and avoid responding negatively to stigmas that they will never truly understand.
• Follow Beacon's policies, procedures, and manuals.
• Cooperates with Beacon Specialized Living, the Department of Human Services (DHS) staff or any other regulatory body during any inspection, investigation or inquiry.
• Accept other duties as assigned.
Professional Conduct and Management Effectiveness:
In addition to evaluating your work performance you will be evaluated for the following work behaviors:
• Job Knowledge: Depth and breadth of knowledge supporting our organization goals.
• Quality of Work: Freedom from errors and mistakes, timeliness. Accuracy, quality of work in general.
• Quantity of Work: Work output of the employee.
• Reliability: The extent to which the employee can be dependent upon to be available for work, do it properly, and complete it on time. The degree to which the employee is reliable, trustworthy, and persistent.
• Initiative and Creativity: The ability to plan work and to go ahead with a task without being told every detail and the ability to make constructive suggestions.
• Judgment: The extent to which the employee makes decisions which are sound. Ability to base decisions on fact rather than emotion.
• Cooperation: Willingness to work harmoniously with others in getting a job done. Readiness to respond positively to instructions and procedures.
• Compliance: Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Attendance: Faithfulness in coming to work daily and conforming to scheduled work hours.
• Planning and Organizing: The ability to analyze work, set goals, develop plans of action, utilize time, and delegate work as appropriate. Consider the amount of supervision required and the extent to which you can trust employees to carry out assignments conscientiously.
• Directing and Controlling: The ability to create a motivating climate, achieve teamwork, train, and develop, measure work in progress, and take corrective action.
• Decision Making: The ability to make decisions and the quality and timeliness of those decisions.
• Problem Solving: The ability to assess a problem, identify options or solutions, formulate a plan, execute the plan, and achieve and sustain positive outcomes.
• Embrace, support, and manage the business in accordance with Beacon's Mission and Core Values.
Education and Qualifications:
• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology preferred.
• Solid production experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• Git-based workflow experience (GitHub, CI/CD pipelines)
• Must pass criminal background checks, central registry check (in applicable states) and child abuse registry (in applicable states).
• Must complete and pass a drug test, in applicable states.
• Must possess a valid Driver's License and have reliable transportation.
• Proficient in speaking, reading and writing the English language.
• Approved by state, federal and government entities to work within BSLS programs.
• Ability to use office equipment, including BSLS information technology systems.
Skills and Abilities:
• Comfort building data-heavy UIs (tables, charts, dashboards) that are fast and legible.
• Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT) as part of your regular development workflow - we want people who use AI to move faster, not people learning to use it for the first time.
• Ability to work from a spec and ship independently; we value finished, working deliverables over lengthy discovery cycles.
• Experience with Azure Static Web Apps, Azure Functions, or Cosmos DB.
• Exposure to healthcare, human services, or compliance-heavy industries.
• Experience building AI-assisted or AI-summarization features into a product (not just using AI tools to write code but building features that call LLM APIs).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID / SSO integration.
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NOTE: **Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States**