Senior Software Engineer - Microservices

The Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable, secure, and performant microservices-based applications supporting enterprise platforms. The role operates across the full SDLC and collaborates with cross-functional teams including Product, Architecture, Dev Ops, QA, Application teams, performance test team and Platform.

* 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

* Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and 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 is 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

* 4+ years of experience w/Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent technical field

* MS is a plus

* Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education or degree

* Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure applications and products

* Experience developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform

* Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case

* Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them

* Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers

* Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements

* Core Engineering:
Microservices architecture, Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, scalable batch and real-time systems

* Cloud & Dev Ops:
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Git Ops, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud-native design

* Claims Domain Expertise:
Claims adjudication, coordination of benefits (COB) logic, EDI integrations, and high-volume transaction processing

* Architecture Leadership:
System design, modernization from legacy to microservices, API governance, and cross-team alignment

* Reliability & Observability:
Monitoring, logging, incident management, resiliency engineering, and performance optimization

* Test Automation: API testing, test-driven development (TDD), and automated regression frameworks for microservices

* Data & Workflow Automation:
Batch processing, workflow orchestration, and business intelligence integration

* AI & Intelligent Automation: AI-assisted development, AIOps, anomaly detection, machine learning integration via APIs, and developer productivity tools

* Security & Compliance:
Secure API design, vulnerability management, and business continuity planning

* Communication &

Collaboration:

Strong collaboration with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams; ability to translate technical solutions into business outcomes; effective participation in design discussions, sprint ceremonies, and enterprise initiatives

* Leadership:
Mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving innovation, and leading modernization initiatives

* Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes

* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application

* Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills

* Knowledge of agile development methodologies

* Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices

* Life-long learner, process improver

* Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow

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