Software Engineer III

Availity is a healthcare technology company that delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for healthcare professionals. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to join their Essentials Platform team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services and shared libraries, while ensuring platform reliability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Champion engineering excellence while shaping modern customer expectations and behaviors within our Essentials Portal. Take ownership of both backend and frontend navigation, ensuring a seamless, intuitive experience that supports efficient healthcare processing for providers and payers across the U.S
• Design, build, and maintain backend services and shared libraries primarily in Node.js
• 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
• 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:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with Node.js
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to ramp quickly into the other languages as necessary
• Solid understanding of: Microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, Distributed systems concepts
• Experience building and running applications in the cloud (AWS preferred)
• Working knowledge of: CI/CD pipelines, Automated testing strategies, Source control and trunk-based development
• Proven ability to: Take ownership of complex systems, Make sound technical decisions, Balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Working experience with GraphQL
• Familiarity with: Docker and containerized workloads, Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), Kubernetes / managed container platforms
• Strong experience with: Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing, Designing for observability and system health awareness
• Prior experience supporting internal platform or shared services teams
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience