Senior Software Engineer

EMPLOYER: Delta Dental Insurance Company

TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

Location: 1130 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30009; Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

Salary Range: $149,760 - $154,200/year

Job Description: 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 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. Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

• GitHub for source code management
  
• containerization technologies, including Podman, to manage and deploy services
  
• Java/Spring Boot for microservice development
  
• Jenkins, CloudBees, or GitHub Actions for continuous integration and continuous delivery to automate the testing and deployment process
  
• Jira for work tracking and workflow management
  
• Utilizes Confluence for maintaining technical documentation
  
• 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;
  
• Java for microservice development
  
• Utilizes Datadog to review production infrastructure health post releases, to manage alerts for production failures, and for log storage and analysis
  
• Contrast to perform a code security scan before releasing new features to production
  
• Create architecture diagrams to depict integrations of different application, service, and system level integrations using Confluence and diagraming software
  
• Utilizes JUnit/TestNG for creation of automated unit tests