Software Engineer III

Availity is a healthcare technology company focused on delivering revenue cycle and related business solutions for healthcare professionals. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to join their Essentials Backbone team, responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable services that enhance customer integration with their portal.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and shared libraries in NodeJS and React frontends written in both Javascript and Typescript
• Contribute to the evolution of a microservices-based platform with a strong emphasis on:
• Scalability
• Resilience and fault tolerance
• Observability and operational excellence
• Own services end-to-end, including:
• Development
• Testing
• Deployment
• Monitoring and support
• Partner closely with an engaged Product Owner to deliver value through:
• Scrum-based sprint planning
• Weekly minor releases and monthly major releases
• Raise the engineering bar by:
• Writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Advocating for strong software engineering principles
• Continuously refining processes, tooling, and standards
• Improve system performance, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency
• Actively participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and solution trade-off decisions
• Mentor and collaborate with teammates in a small, high-trust team of 4 engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong, hands-on experience with NodeJS and React, with demonstrated ability and willingness to ramp quickly into the other
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts
• Experience building and running applications in the cloud (AWS preferred)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• Working knowledge of automated testing strategies
• Working knowledge of source control and trunk-based development
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex systems
• Proven ability to make sound technical decisions
• Proven ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Experience working with Java in production environments
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized workloads
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes / managed container platforms
• Strong experience with logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Strong experience with designing for observability and system health awareness
• Prior experience supporting internal platform or shared services teams
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience