Software Engineer
Highmark Health3 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Base Salary
$86k - $139k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design engineering specifications and scalable software applications.
- Write code that follows coding standards and participate in code reviews.
- Explore and implement technical solutions while considering functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, story creation, estimation, and task management.
- Monitor production jobs, investigate issues, perform root-cause and data analysis, debug, apply data fixes, and reprocess jobs when needed.
- Monitor progress against production schedules and communicate blockers, technical difficulties, and status updates.
- Mentor associate software engineers and support junior engineers' development.
- Provide production support and implement proactive resolutions for potential production problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field is required; a master's degree is preferred.
- At least three years of experience with algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and building and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
- At least three years of experience with a modern programming language and at least two listed application or cloud technologies.
- At least three years of experience with web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, and JSON.
- Preferred experience includes five years with general-purpose programming languages, system architecture, technical feasibility trade-offs, healthcare technology systems, application development, and maintainable code.
- Production support experience with root-cause analysis, data analysis, log files, and processing issues is preferred.
- Strong SQL or PL/SQL, troubleshooting, software engineering practices, and large-scale consumer application development skills are preferred.
- Ability to lead developers and small technical initiatives and willingness to mentor junior engineers.
- One to three years of Cognos development experience is preferred.
- U.S. citizenship is required due to contractual and access requirements.
Benefits
- Office-based position with 0%–25% travel and occasional travel between work sites.
- May require flexibility to work nonstandard hours when production support needs arise.
- Base pay range is $86,400.00–$138,600.00 per year.
- The role includes opportunities to mentor engineers and participate across the full software development lifecycle.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSCC#C++CSSDjangoFlaskGoGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaJavaScriptNode.jsObjective-CPythonReactSQL
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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.