Senior Staff Software Engineer- Java at RevSpring

Portland, Oregon, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

30 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Jul, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java, AWS, OpenSearch, System Design, RESTful API Design, Asynchronous Messaging, Data Structures, Algorithms, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Python, Postgres, DynamoDB, Datomic, Clojure, AI Solutions

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Description

Job Title: Senior Staff Software Engineer- Java Job Summary: Join a team solving some of the hardest problems in healthcare by building the services that help millions of people find the right doctors, understand healthcare costs, and choose the next best step in their care. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Health Plan Applications and Services team, this role is responsible for developing the services that power the member-facing experience, ensuring existing systems remain robust while architecting the next generation of care guidance tools. The position offers the opportunity to write a significant amount of code, build deep expertise in system design, solve complex technical challenges, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering organization. This role works primarily within a backend technology stack that includes Java, AWS, and OpenSearch. Collaboration with engineers and cross-functional partners across Product, Frontend Engineering, and Implementation is essential to delivering a seamless, high-performing user experience. Success in this position requires the ability to balance maintaining and optimizing established infrastructure with designing and building new services. The existing platform demands a disciplined, pragmatic approach to ensure reliability and performance while driving innovation through the development of next-generation healthcare solutions. Essential Functions: * Develop and maintain backend services by writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code that supports high-throughput and low-latency requirements. Effective in paired programming and working independently. * Mentor other engineers and elevate the technical capabilities and overall effectiveness of the engineering team. * Lead the team through architectural, product, and priority tradeoffs and decision making. * Participate in the deployment and monitoring of services within the AWS ecosystem. * Participate in code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows. * Contribute to observability through logging and metrics; participate in on-call rotations and incident response. * Contribute to task definition, prioritization, and assignment. * Drive deliverables with a sense of urgency and ownership along with surfacing risks, mitigating them, and suggesting course corrections when appropriate. * Own multiple products with a DevOps and service-ownership mindset. Deliver quality solutions with test automation, instrumentation, monitoring, secure/defensive coding, resiliency, and scalability. * Collaborate on work with the team and other contributing teams, engaging cross-functionally to ensure successful project and/or product delivery. Minimum Requirements: Specific Job Skills: * Demonstrates a passion for coding and consistently delivers high-quality, maintainable, and easy-to-understand production software. Possesses a strong understanding of software design patterns and their importance in building scalable, reliable applications. * Proficiency in Java (or similar language with the ability to learn Java quickly) building production APIs and services * Experience building and deploying applications in a cloud environment (AWS preferred) * Understanding of RESTful API design and asynchronous messaging patterns * Strong knowledge of software fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, and testing) * Ability to take uncertain requirements, ask the right questions to solidify them, and then break them down into the parts that you can build. * Experience writing comprehensive unit and functional tests and being responsible for quality * Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates and stakeholders. * Experience with other technologies we use on the team such as Python, OpenSearch, Pulumi, Postgres, DynamoDB, Datomic, Clojure, Javascript/TypeScript, React, and more * Experience building and maintaining Search APIs * Experience building AI powered solutions Education: Bachelor’s Degree Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend development Supervision: N/A Certifications: N/A Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a variety of both internal and external sources. Physical Capabilities: Standard categories The physical capabilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. RevSpring is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Note: This Job Description may not describe all of the job responsibilities and standards assigned to this position. The duties may change from time to time. RevSpring does not discriminate against any group in hiring or employment practices. Nothing in this job description constitutes a contract for employment.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain high-throughput backend services for healthcare member-facing experiences using Java and AWS. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to the engineering team while managing service ownership and DevOps practices.