Senior Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

EMPLOYER: Delta Dental Insurance Company

TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

Location: 1130 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30009;
Telecommuting permissible from any location within US.

Salary Range: $152,131 - $157,131/year

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study. Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Experience with deploying and managing applications using Web Logic, container management using Docker/Podman, and management of API systems.
• Oversees SSL certificate management, performs IT operations automation tasks and setting up docker application environments.
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security, performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test‑driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
• Participates in code‑reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers. Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
• Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management. Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects. Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
• Maintains knowledge, ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross‑functional team.
• This list is not all‑inclusive, and as an employee you will be expected to perform other enterprise‑related duties as requested or assigned.
• Telecommuting permissible from any location within US.

• Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Engineering in Information Technology or related field and five (5) years of progressive, post‑baccalaureate experience in Computer Information Systems or in the related role or job offered.
• Weblogic, Docker/Podman, WSO2, and Kafka for deployment pipeline automations and manage Application Programming Interfaces with enterprise lodging systems.
• Azure and Amazon Cloud for developing, configuring and deploying applications infrastructure activities in cloud platform.
• Java, Groovy, React.js, Node.js and SOLR to troubleshoot issues as required on applications from the infrastructure platform.
• Shell scripting, Perl, Python, and Go language to build and maintain the scheduling and other wide areas of utilities necessary around the systems.
• Git Hub, Cloud Bees/Jenkins, Artifactory and Rundeck to help support various types of deployments and maintenances.
• Ansible, Sonar Qube and Datadog for automation, security scanning and monitoring or alerting to configure the applications' performance and availability.

The national base pay range at the end is a good‑faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other…