Senior Software Engineer
Delta Dental•Rancho Cordova, CA
•$92,500 - $200,400•Hybrid
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 w/Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent technical field (MS is a plus)
- 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 developing and enhancing Formworks-based applications
- Experience with Azure Document Intelligence/OCR
- 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
- Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Pega Applications is a plus
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 is 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
Benefits
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
