Senior Software Engineer - Microservices

Job Description

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.

• Serve 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.
• Participate in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; often requiring independent research and study.
• Develop high‑quality, production‑ready software using best‑practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Write 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.
• Produce complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintain a team culture of documenting everything.
• Test and ensure quality of all code that is developed in line with principles of test‑driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
• Participate in code reviews, provide technical guidance and mentor software engineers.
• Collaborate 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.
• Instrument infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
• Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.

• 4+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an 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 a 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…