Senior Software Engineer

Highmark Health is a healthcare organization that develops digital solutions to serve its customers. The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, and reviews scalable software applications across digital channels, participates throughout the full application build lifecycle, and contributes to agile development, technical solution design, and mentoring other engineers.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• Have experience working with agile methodology of scrum
• Interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, unit testing, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Strong track record in designing and implementing large scale consumer facing applications
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Demonstrated passion for user experience and improving usability
• Experience and willingness to mentor junior engineers and help develop their skills and leadership
• 0% - 25%
• Remote
• Physical work site required
• Lifting: up to 10 pounds
• Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds
• Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
• Java, Spring Boot, Web Services/REST API, Angular, Oracle and DB2 database, SQL, Kafka, Red Hat/DMN rules engine, GIT, GCP
• 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