Ruby Backend Software Engineer
About The Position
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients. At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of backend development experience in Ruby.
- Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Understanding on how to build distributed high-volume services in Ruby.
- Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, backend testing frameworks).
- Experience in backend architecture.
- Experience with or understanding of front-end development, particularly Angular, to effectively collaborate on full-stack features
- Experience working with AWS.
- Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization.
- Solid understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL.
- Understanding of Apache Solr or willingness to learn.
- Exposure to queueing systems such as RabbitMQ or willingness to learn.
- Experience contributing to products in a production environment (product lifecycle, sticking to release schedules, etc.).
- Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, JavaScript testing frameworks).
Responsibilities
- Write easily maintainable, extendable, and understandable code that adheres to software engineering design principles.
- Creating and maintaining our APIs.
- Developing new full-stack features to improve our products.
- Supporting and enhancing current systems.
- Debugging and optimizing code.
- Supporting and development of comprehensive documentation and tests.
- Building tooling to improve our operational efficiency.
- Developing the frontend experience using Angular.
- Creating and maintaining our Backend architecture.
- Planning and maintaining a product long term.
- Performing code reviews.
- Collaborating with product to deliver on the roadmap.
Benefits
- comprehensive onboarding
- career guidance
- competitive salary
- remote-friendly workspace
- continuing education support
- 401k plan with employer match
- flexible paid time off
- holidays
- parental leaves
- life and disability insurance
- health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
