Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be an integral member of an agile software engineering team responsible for building scalable software applications across digital channels. The role involves designing software applications, participating in agile ceremonies, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring adherence to coding standards.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing and creating engineering specifications for software applications and programs. Responsible for designing & writing code that adheres to coding standards. Performs code reviews
- Responsible for idea generation, exploring and implementing appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features, as well as monitoring technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance
- A part of an agile work team and responsible for participating in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints in the development through final execution of software applications/programs. Communicate any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master in a timely manner
- Drive story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation). Create Tasks for their stories in applicable software (ex RTC or Jira), and updates status and assignment accordingly
- Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates and report any issues or technical difficulties to lead developers on a regular basis
- Mentor other associate and intermediate software engineers as needed
- Other duties as assigned or requested
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field
- 5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems
- 5 years in at least one modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred), and experience with at least two of the following React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
- 5 years of understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
- 5 years with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go
- 5 years in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
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- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
- 7 years of working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions or developing applications in healthcare
- 5 years of translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
- 5 years of ability to produce code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
- 1 year of working with Machine Learning esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields
- Proven expertise in full-stack development Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain robust applications using React for the frontend and Python with PostgreSQL/BigQuery for the backend, including experience with GraphQL, REST APIs and database views
- Strong proficiency in asynchronous processing and messaging Hands-on experience with Celery and GCP Pub/Sub for building scalable and reliable distributed systems
- Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and deployment strategies Experience with GitLab CI/CD for automating deployments across on-premise, OpenShift, and GCP cloud environments, coupled with a solid grasp of role-based security and access control implementation
- Senior-level contributions to software architecture and development lifecycle A track record of leading design discussions, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring code quality, security best practices, and performance optimization within an agile development framework
- GCP
Benefits
- Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations.
- Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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