Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, DevOps

JOB DESCRIPTION

EMPLOYER:
Delta Dental of California

TITLE:
Software Engineer

Location: 560 Mission Street, Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94105;
Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

Salary: $161,637 - $166,637/year

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 systems, 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 and provides technical guidance. 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. Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, or related field and two (2) years of experience in Software Development or in the related role or job offered.

Create architecture diagrams to depict integrations of different application, service, and system level integrations.

Utilize Git Hub for source code management.

Utilize Datadog for log storage and analysis.

Utilize containerization technologies, including Podman, to manage and deploy services.

Utilize Next.js and React.js for UI development.

Utilize Jenkins, Cloud Bees, or Git Hub Actions for continuous integration and continuous delivery to automate the testing and deployment process.

Utilize Jira for work tracking and workflow management.

Utilize Confluence for maintaining technical documentation.

Utilize JavaScript and Type Script for UI development.

Utilize Datadog or other monitoring software to review production infrastructure health post releases.

Utilize Datadog or other alerting software to manage alerts for production failures.

Utilize Contrast to perform a code security scan before releasing new features to production.

Create documents with details on every decision made in POC efforts.

Utilize test framework of choice for creation of automated unit tests.

Base Pay Information

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 factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 21.: $161,637 - $166,637/year

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- ABOUT THE TEAM

At Delta Dental, we're behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we've served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care - but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building fair programs that…