Senior Software Engineer

Delta Dental•Oakland, CA

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers.

Requirements

4+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education or degree.
Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products.
Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform.
Experience designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-grade microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
Experience developing and supporting REST and SOAP services, ensuring backward compatibility and adherence to enterprise integration standards.
Experience exposing, managing, and versioning APIs using Azure API Management (APIM).
Experience with containerizing applications using Docker and deploy across on‑premises environments and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Experience with OAuth2, JWT, token-based authentication, and management of secrets using Azure Key Vault (AKV).
Design and optimize SQL-based data models, queries, and transactions.
Experience implementing JMS consumers, queue processors, schedulers, and background jobs for reliable and distributed message processing.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated build, test, and deployment.
Experience applying unit, integration, and API testing to ensure code quality and production readiness.
Experience implementing logging, metrics, and distributed tracing using tools such as Datadog.
Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Knowledge of agile development methodologies
Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
Life-long learner, process improver.

Responsibilities

Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.
Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.
Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.
Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
Maintains knowledge, ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.