Senior Development Engineer (Operations)

Office Ally

3d•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

This is an opportunity to join a growing company transforming healthcare technology through modern electronic billing, payments, and secure data exchange solutions across the Property & Casualty and Healthcare industries. As a Senior Development Engineer (DevOps), you will play a key role in maintaining scalable applications that power mission-critical healthcare and insurance workflows. This role focuses on maintaining the application performing transactional data processing, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability across the application infrastructure. You will be assigned to work as part of the DevOps team, but will coordinate across multiple initiatives, partnering with Operations and Engineering to deliver robust solutions to Production. You will also leverage modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to improve development speed and efficiency as well as to ensure system reliability. This role is central to maintaining the backend systems that power our core products and integrations. You will directly impact system scalability, reliability, and performance across multiple customer-facing and internal platforms. Your work will help ensure that complex healthcare and insurance transactions are processed accurately, efficiently, and securely at scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of backend software engineering experience
Advanced proficiency in Java and transactional data development
Deep understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture
Extensive SQL database and scripting experience (Oracle preferred)
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI)
Proven ability to diagnose complex issues, debug, and troubleshoot production systems
Exceptional communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar tools)
Experience building and maintaining scalable backend systems
Working knowledge of system observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, etc.)
Exposure to high-volume transaction processing and integration-heavy environments

Nice To Haves

Experience and passion around working with AI: Copilot, Claude, Windsurf, Gemini Code, or similar
Background in healthcare, insurance, or financial services systems
Experience with event-driven architectures or messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
Experience with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
Familiarity with Elastic Cloud
Proficiency with Spring Boot or similar backend frameworks
Familiarity with orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
Hands-on experience with API testing or workflow automation tools (Playwright, Postman, etc.)
Understanding of Agile development methodologies
Experience working with sensitive data and compliance requirements (HIPAA / PHI / PII)

Responsibilities

Help to maintain backend services and core platform components
Assist with improving/updating scalable systems using Java coding
Write optimized SQL DML and complex database queries
Support transactional data processing, EDI transformations, and integration workflows
Ensure backend systems are secure, reliable, and performant under high transaction volumes
Troubleshoot production and integration issues as needed
Develop solutions to production problems and provide remediations accordingly through scripting and code changes
Work on CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and DevOps best practices
Contribute to improving system observability through logging, monitoring, and diagnostic enhancements
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with strong unit and integration test coverage
Utilize Claude to support development, accelerate problem-solving, and improve productivity while maintaining high code quality