Senior Software Engineer

EMPLOYER: Delta Dental Insurance Company

TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

Location: 1130 Sanctuary Parkway, 3rd Floor, Alpharetta, GA 30009. Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

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

Job Description: Design and build a highly scalable set of APIs that support the company's rich consumer-facing applications. Use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams of product managers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation engineers, and DevOps in an Agile setup. Participate in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study. Design, develop, test, and maintain microservices to support company's consumer-facing applications. Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance. Use TDD and participate in code-reviews with other software engineers. Collaborate with DevOps team to setup the build and delivery pipeline. Add instrumentation and monitoring to support production environments. Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health. 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. May need to support production releases, production incidents, etc. outside the business hours on a need basis. Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

• Java 8+ to develop robust, secure, and high-performing APIs.
  
• experience with Spring Boot to simplify the development of production-ready applications with built-in features for microservices.
  
• RESTful concepts to ensure efficient and standardized communication between services.
  
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with experience in JPA to provide flexibility in data storage solutions, optimizing for different use cases.
  
• Experience with Splunk, Azure Analytics, or DataDog to enable effective monitoring and troubleshooting of applications in production and pre-production.
  
• Git to facilitate collaboration and version management in software development.
  
• Experience using design patterns and UML to create technical design documents, ensuring well-structured and documented software architecture.
  
• Knowledge of Docker and Jenkins to support containerization and continuous integration for streamlined deployment.
  
• Experience with TDD, Unit & integration testing using Test Frameworks like JUnit and Mockito to ensure code reliability and quality.
  
• Ability to build on our automation written in a JavaScript-based automation framework.
  
• microservices architecture and design patterns to enable the creation of scalable and maintainable distributed systems.
  
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to utilize cloud and containerization for scalable and consistent deployment environments.
  
• Experience with build tools like Maven and Gradle to automate and manage the build process and dependencies.
  
• Experience working in an Agile environment to promote iterative development and adaptability.
  
• take ownership to research, deliver quality, and timely deliverables. Ability to lead a small group of people if required and ensure high-quality deliverables in a timely manner to ensure leadership and accountability within the team.
  
• Experience working with API gateways like Azure APIM and Apigee to facilitate secure and efficient API management and integration.