Lead Software Engineer - Internal Developer Platform & Developer Experience
Wellmark, Inc.7 hours ago
Des Moines, IA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, integration, adoption, and ongoing maturity of internal developer platform capabilities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader for developer experience, software catalogs, platform integrations, self-service, and engineering enablement.
- Build platform integrations connecting source control, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, documentation, security tooling, application portfolio information, and other engineering systems.
- Develop health checks, scorecards, campaigns, templates, reference implementations, documentation, automation, and self-service workflows.
- Operate, monitor, troubleshoot, support, and continuously improve internal engineering platform capabilities.
- Lead roadmap development, capability assessments, project proposals, estimates, proof-of-concept activities, code reviews, and standards adherence.
- Partner with application engineering, cloud, security, architecture, operations, quality engineering, and other technology teams.
- Provide technical leadership, training, mentoring, root-cause analysis, and guidance to team members and technology partners.
- Apply product management principles by gathering developer feedback, prioritizing capabilities, and measuring adoption, reliability, effectiveness, and developer experience outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or a related field and at least five years of software engineering experience, or nine years of related and applicable experience.
- Experience building or supporting internal developer platforms, developer portals, and self-service engineering capabilities.
- Experience developing platform integrations, automation, and self-service capabilities using AWS services, APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating platforms with source control, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, security tooling, documentation, observability solutions, service management systems, and enterprise data sources.
- Experience designing software catalogs, scorecards, health checks, self-service workflows, templates, documentation, and onboarding capabilities.
- Experience operating and continuously improving an internal engineering platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and service ownership.
- Experience applying product management principles to internal engineering platforms and measuring platform adoption and effectiveness.
- Demonstrated software development lifecycle experience, cross-team technical leadership, root-cause analysis, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and collaboration.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to manage changing priorities, and awareness of industry trends.
Benefits
- The role is based at Wellmark, a mutual insurance company focused on member well-being, sustainability, innovation, and organizational transformation.
- Wellmark is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation support during the application process.
- The position requires a non-compete agreement.
About Wellmark, Inc.
Wellmark, Inc. sells health insurance plans and health management programs to individuals, families, and employer groups in Iowa and South Dakota. An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, it serves over 2 million members with access to a national provider network. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, Wellmark is privately held.