Senior Software Engineer

Delta Dental•Alpharetta, GA

15d•Onsite

About The Position

Delta Dental Insurance Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and support products that provide solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems. This role involves participating in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software. The engineer will develop high-quality, production-ready software using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential for designing, developing, and implementing scalable, high-performance software solutions. The position requires driving the migration of existing legacy Oracle ADF applications to modern web technologies, including ReactJS for front-end and Spring Boot for back-end services. Additionally, the role involves developing and maintaining SOAP-based services with an eye towards transitioning to RESTful services, ensuring preservation of existing functionalities and meeting new requirements for scalability, performance, and security. The engineer will also be responsible for API documentation, writing high-quality code with an end-to-end mindset, producing technical documentation, testing code, participating in code-reviews, and mentoring other software engineers. Collaboration with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation, and other teams is crucial for defining, prioritizing, and scoping requirements. The role also includes instrumenting infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, and metrics management, as well as performing impact assessments of product upgrades and assisting in project planning and execution. The engineer will support and collaborate with other engineers throughout the evaluation, design analysis, and development phases, while maintaining knowledge and compliance with policies and procedures to act as a technical expert.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or related field with five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in software development or in the related role or job offered.
Java, JSON, Hibernate, Spring, Axis-These for building robust backend systems and support enterprise applications.
Front-End & Full-Stack Development using Angular or React or Node JS- Essential for modern web development and building responsive user interfaces.
Expertise in building dynamic, responsive, and scalable web applications using front-end development technologies like Angular/React/Node.
Kubernetes, AWS or Azure, Docker, EC2, RDS for cloud-native development, container orchestration, and scalable deployments.
Web Services (Rest, Soap), Spring Boot, Swagger, OpenAPI to enable integration and communication between distributed systems.
Build REST/SOAP services using Spring Boot, document APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI, ensuring clarity and ease of consumption for internal and external teams.
Database (Oracle or MySQL or MS SQL) for data persistence and retrieval for any application.
Design schemas, write queries, and optimize performance across databases depending on the application’s needs.
Git hub, SVN, Gitlab, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Splunk, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Jira, Confluence, & Grafana to support the full software development lifecycle.
Agile-Scrum, SAFe-Agile methodologies to drive iterative development and team collaboration.
Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, retros, planning) and follow SAFe practices for scaling agile across teams and aligning with business goals.
Apache Tomcat & WebLogic to deploy and run enterprise Java applications.
Configure and deploy applications on Tomcat for lightweight needs and WebLogic for more complex, enterprise-grade deployments.

Responsibilities

Build and support products that provide solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
Participate in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software.
Develop high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable, high-performance software solutions.
Integrate Oracle ADF/React.js applications with other enterprise systems, APIs, and services.
Drive the migration of existing legacy Oracle ADF applications to modern web technologies, including ReactJS for front-end and Spring Boot for back-end services.
Design and implement new front-end interfaces using ReactJS, incorporating modern web development best practices, UI/UX design principles, and responsive design.
Refactor, optimize, and migrate existing Oracle ADF business components, task flows, and logic into Spring Boot-based services.
Develop RESTful web services and back-end APIs using Spring Boot to support the new ReactJS front-end.
Integrate ReactJS applications with Spring Boot back-end services using RESTful APIs.
Develop and maintain SQL queries, work with JPA/Hibernate, and integrate with relational databases Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
Use Azure DevOps for continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring of applications in production.
Implement cloud-native solutions, including using Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.
Ensure security best practices are followed when deploying services to Azure, including API security, user authentication, and data encryption.
Optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of both ReactJS and Spring Boot applications in the cloud environment.
Work closely with the operations team to manage cloud infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure system availability.
Set up and optimize Git Cloud Actions (e.g., GitHub Actions), automating deployment pipelines, testing, and other workflows.
Integrate Git with cloud platform Azure to streamline development processes.
Maintain and enhance SOAP-based services, with an eye towards transitioning to RESTful services as needed.
Ensure the transition from SOAP to REST preserves existing functionalities and meets new requirements for scalability, performance, and security.
Design and implement API documentation (e.g., Swagger or OpenAPI) to ensure clarity and ease of use for other developers and external systems.
Write 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.
Produce complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintain a team culture of documenting everything.
Test and ensure quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
Participate in code-reviews, provide technical guidance and mentor software engineers.
Collaborate 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.
Instrument infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
Assist in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
Support and collaborate with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
Maintain knowledge and ensure competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.