Software Engineer III

Availity

19h•Remote

About The Position

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change. At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission. We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding. Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem. Availity is seeking a Software Engineer III to join our Essentials Platform team. This team owns and operates a suite of over 20 microservices and shared libraries that power our internal Essentials portals, applications, and developer teams across the organization. This role is ideal for an assertive, highly capable engineer who values well-architected systems, pristine engineering practices, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in designing, building, and operating scalable, resilient backend services while helping the team move leaner, faster, cleaner, and more cost-efficient in the cloud. Our customers are internal development teams, and our success is measured by platform reliability, performance, clarity of system health, and ease of consumption.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with Node.js
Demonstrated ability and willingness to ramp quickly into the other languages as necessary
Solid understanding of: Microservices architecture RESTful APIs Distributed systems concepts
Experience building and running applications in the cloud (AWS preferred)
Working knowledge of: CI/CD pipelines Automated testing strategies Source control and trunk-based development
Proven ability to: Take ownership of complex systems Make sound technical decisions Balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

Nice To Haves

Working experience with GraphQL
Familiarity with: Docker and containerized workloads Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) Kubernetes / managed container platforms
Strong experience with: Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing Designing for observability and system health awareness
Prior experience supporting internal platform or shared services teams
Healthcare or regulated industry experience

Responsibilities

Champion engineering excellence while shaping modern customer expectations and behaviors within our Essentials Portal.
Take ownership of both backend and frontend navigation, ensuring a seamless, intuitive experience that supports efficient healthcare processing for providers and payers across the U.S.
Design, build, and maintain backend services and shared libraries primarily in Node.js
Contribute to the evolution of a microservices-based platform with a strong emphasis on: Scalability Resilience and fault tolerance Observability and operational excellence
Own services end-to-end, including: Development Testing Deployment Monitoring and support
Raise the engineering bar by: Writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code Advocating for strong software engineering principles Continuously refining processes, tooling, and standards
Improve system performance, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency
Actively participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and solution trade-off decisions
Mentor and collaborate with teammates in a small, high-trust team of 4 engineers

Benefits

Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates.
“AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
Availity is a culture of continuous learning.
We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays.
Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place!
Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.