The Software Engineer will help build, modernize, and maintain our Claims Processing System, MetaVance. 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.
Responsibilities:
- Builds, configures, customizes and supports products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
- 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.
- Leads architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.
- Leads teams that develop high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
- Champions writing 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 creates a team culture of documenting everything.
- Drives code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.
- Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, QA and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
- Scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
- Foresees and assesses 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.
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Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent technical education and experience.
- 7+ years of experience with Healthcare Technology; claims processing systems; batch and online.
- Expertise in Azure Cloud Platform Services (AKS).
- Expertise in Docker Containerization with Kubernetes Orchestration.
- Expertise in Azure Platform change management.
- Expertise in Azure Observability/Monitoring platform.
- Knowledge of DevOps/GitOps.
- Experience with Production Support (Abend resolution, documentation).
- Experience with Istio/Knative/Ngnix is a plus.
- Experience with MetaVance Online and Batch Processing is a plus.
- Knowledge of building MetaVance on a specific server is a plus.
- Knowledge of MetaVance Application or any Healthcare Claims processing system is a plus.
- Flexible with work schedule (supporting oncall for Production and Pre-Production environments).
- Knowledge of current trends and best practices enabling sound technology choices and strategic decisions.
- Spearheads the development of innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate tech debt, anti-patterns and advance threats.
- Ability to research and apply innovative methodologies, latest industry trends, design patterns.
- Recognizes underlying problems, opportunities, or the political forces affecting the organization.
- Subject matter expert responsible for sharing expertise and insight with other engineers.
- Identifies significant internal and external stakeholders and builds partnerships as part of an influencing strategy.
- Demonstrates mastery in their area of expertise and are recognized as an authority on it by their peers and leaders.
- Evaluates and generates options that scan the entire spectrum of software reliability, ease of adoption, scalability, operational ease, and skillset availability.
- Mentors and champions cultural as well as process change.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships.
- Life-long learner, process improver.
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
Additional Information:
Rewards to make you smile! We don't just want to make our customers happy - we want to give our employees a reason to smile, too. Delta Dental's comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Generous paid time off plus 12 holidays and your birthday off!
- Low-cost premium medical insurance options
- 100% paid dental and vision insurance
- Generous 401(k) matching and flat contribution
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities, including 16 paid volunteer hours annually
- Employee LiveWell program, focusing on overall employee well-being
- Fertility and diabetes benefits
- Employee discount program: AT&T/Verizon, entertainment, travel, and more!
- Culture of learning: career development and tuition reimbursement
- Career growth: we love promoting from within
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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