Associate Software Engineer
Highmark Health3 days ago
Remote, United StatesEntry Level
Base Salary
$68k - $106k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and create engineering specifications for software applications and programs.
- Write code that follows coding standards and participate in code reviews.
- Explore technical solutions for product features while considering functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Contribute to business analysis, technical design, software development, testing, and final application execution.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, story creation, estimation, and sprint delivery.
- Create and update tasks in applicable tools such as RTC or Jira and provide progress updates.
- Monitor work against production schedules and report blockers, technical difficulties, and issues to senior developers or principals.
- Help develop junior engineers and contribute to mentoring and leadership development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.
- At least 1 year of experience with algorithm and data-structure design, design patterns, and building and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
- At least 1 year of experience with a modern programming language and at least two of React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services.
- At least 1 year of experience with web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, and JSON.
- Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: 3 years of experience with general-purpose programming languages, system architecture and technical feasibility trade-offs, technology systems and application development in healthcare, translating designs and user stories into applications, and producing fault-tolerant, efficient, maintainable code.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices, including unit testing, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience with Scrum or agile methodology and willingness to learn additional programming languages.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, take ownership, improve usability, and mentor junior engineers.
Benefits
- Remote/work-from-home arrangement for candidates residing in the Pittsburgh area, with as-needed travel to the AHN Distribution Center in Zelienople.
- Travel requirement is listed as 0%–25%, with occasional travel from the office or work site.
- Office-based position classification with a physical work site required.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSCC#C++CSSDjangoFlaskGoGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaJavaScriptObjective-CPythonReact
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About Highmark Health
Highmark Health is a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit parent company that combines health insurance and care delivery. It operates Highmark’s Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and owns Allegheny Health Network, a regional hospital and physician system in Western Pennsylvania, plus the technology subsidiary enGen. The organization’s revenue comes from insurance premiums and healthcare services, serving commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid members across its licensed markets.