Senior Software Engineer - Java, Microservices, Mulesoft & API Development (Remote)

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Java, Microservices, Mulesoft, and API Development. The role involves leading a team in the design and development of applications, managing technical resources, and ensuring compliance with development practices while mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications
• Performs and leads the detail technical design, coding, code review and testing of new applications and enhancements of existing applications
• Serves as a subject matter expert for specified systems and their subsequent applications
• Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation
• Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures
• Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users
• Ensures compliance to the dev/sec/ops practices and policies
• Understanding of architectural practices and design
• Identifies gaps in requirements and solves problems for the supporting staff
• Identifies sequencing of services and technologies that are integrated in later phases of the project
• Leads the evaluation of risk and opportunity impacts to existing or proposed projects/programs and implements risk mitigation actions
• Develops ways to improve performance and increase system availability
• Provides recommendations to infuse new technology
• Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis
• Supports the Project Manager as the technical team lead on the project
• Estimates the technical costs of projects for clients and project managers
• Confers with clients to identify requirements and determine desired outcomes to formulate the design of the system or offer alternatives
• Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools
• Assist in the estimation of development of application features
• Leads software design and development teams
• Identifies, analyzes, defines, and coordinates user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements
• Manages technical resources (hardware, software, licenses, and services)
• Plans and leads transformation initiatives to new software architectures
• Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team
• Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices
• Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices
• Mentoring junior developers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
• 5 years Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management
• Experience developing 12-factor microservices while utilizing Continuous Integration, Build, and Delivery with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
• Experience with Spring related technologies such as Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Integration
• Experience in developing REST and SOAP APIs
• Experience in designing and implementing container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Competency writing basic SQL queries. Oracle, Postgres experience and experience in NOSQL like Mongodb, Cassandra
• Experience utilizing platform and infrastructure-as-a-service technologies AWS, Azure Cloud and their corresponding services
• Experience with the Log Management Platforms like Elastic/ELK stack, Splunk, Azure Monitor
• Experience in writing automation scripts using Postman & newman Collection for API/Microservices testing
• Experience designing, developing and implementing integration solutions using MuleSoft, Dataweave and associated connectors
• Experience with FHIR(Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and HL7 standards for healthcare data exchange and interoperability
• Experience in writing automation scripts test suites in using Cucumber, TestNG, Rest Assured
• Hands on Experience with JSON, XML data formats
• Experience with iterative and incremental development on product-focused teams practicing code reviews
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Ability to lead in an Agile environment
• Experience in production support that has high visibility/SLA's
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
• Creative problem-solving skills that deliver elegant solutions to complex issues
• Experience with Git workflow of release management and Project Tracking Systems (e.g., Bitbucket, Jira)
• Proficiency in Swagger/OpenAPI Specification Knowledge and experience with designing API's based on Domain/Entity driven models
• Working Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Service Mesh and Containers
• Experience with OAuth Security patterns and Implementations
• Experience working in Apache Kafka/Confluent platform including Kafka consumer, Kafka Streams
• Experience working spring Batch and scheduler/task
• Experience with API proxy platforms like Apigee
• Experience with Kibana and Splunk Dashboarding
• Working with Maven and Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory
• Proficiency Microservices multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Experience working in UNIX environment and writing Shell scripts