Senior Software Engineer

at  Delta Dental Ins

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOps engineers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of experience along with a BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience. MS is a plus.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products.
• Experience with 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.
• 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.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Spring Boot Applications, Healthcare and/or Customer Service capability experience is a plus.
• Experience with developing and deploying Spring Boot applications on Azure or similar cloud platform.
• Experience integrating legacy systems with Spring Boot applications.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis in Spring Boot applications to quickly address and fix system issues.
• Ability to integrate with external systems of record with Spring Boot applications.
• Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow.
  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. $92,000 - $196,500

• 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.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable, high-performance software solutions.
• Drives the migration of existing applications from Oracle ADF to ReactJS and Spring Boot services, ensuring seamless integration and deployment in Azure Cloud.
• Maintains and enhance SOAP-based services, with an eye towards transitioning to RESTful services as needed.
• 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 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 teams.
• This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.