Software Engineer

HealthEdge develops healthcare technology platforms and solutions for health plans. The Senior Software Engineer will contribute to product direction through new feature development and bug fixes, working on backend Java services within an agile team. The role includes application design, testing, deployment support, troubleshooting, and promoting agile development practices.

Responsibilities:

• Implement new product features according to specific requirements while adhering to the highest professional development standards
• Work as a back-end server engineer in an agile development team alongside other developers, PMs and QA engineers and participate in all phases of the development process
• Design & develop application components in Java to maintain existing code and to create new services
• Solve interesting technology and usability challenges on a daily basis
• Ensure applications receive thorough unit, system, and integration testing
• Provide solution support and troubleshooting following deployment
• Promote agile principles and methodology
• Contribute to the future direction and vision of the product suite including new feature development and bug fixes

Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years' related experience in a commercial software development role
• BS/MS Computer Science
• Strong object-oriented programming skills
• Hands-on development experience using Java, J2EE, XML, SOAP and SQL
• Familiarity with message queues, event sourcing, NoSQL data stores
• Prior experience with performance optimization and troubleshooting of Java applications
• Linux and shell or other Unix scripting languages as well as with Oracle and relational databases, including experience with database installation, administration, and performance tuning
• Experience working with application servers
• Experience in the full software development lifecycle using an Agile development process
• Experience working CI, CD and DevOps practices
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Geographic Responsibility:** While HealthEdge is located in Boston, MA you may live anywhere in the US
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology
• May require travel dependent on company needs
• Prior experience with healthcare applications is a plus
• Experience with healthcare applications
• Experience with IntelliJ, JUnit or JunitPerf
• Experience working with WebLogic application server
• Experience working with SOAP web services
• Experience with database installation, administration, and performance tuning