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Software Engineer

AT Delta Dental Ins.
Delta Dental Ins.

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

EMPLOYER: Delta Dental of California
TITLE:Software Engineer

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

Salary: $124,505 – $155,605/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 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.

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Responsibilities:

  • Create architecture diagrams to depict integrations of different application, service, and system level integrations;
  • Utilize GitHub 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, CloudBees, or GitHub 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 TypeScript for UI development;

  • 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.

    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. $124,505 – $155,605

    CONTACT: Reference job # 5968424 and send resume to DDTA@delta.org.

    Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, USA
    Job ID: Delta_Dental-2560
    Employment Type: Full Time