Software Engineer IV

Availity

5d • 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.
The Software Engineer IV will provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, and operation of Availity’s data platform processes and services. This role is responsible for building and operating the data processes that support reliable, secure, and scalable data ingestion, storage, processing, and access across the organization, while owning a member-facing membership application end to end.
As a leading member of the team, this engineer will drive architecture and design decisions, translate business and platform requirements into technical designs, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers through disciplined execution. This individual partners closely with product, application engineering, information management, and analytics teams to ensure the platform and the membership application meet current and future business needs, while keeping a keen eye on overall performance, reliability, and data integrity.
Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.
Location: Remote, US

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive work experience developing software products in an Agile and/or iterative development environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Information Management.
• Proven commitment to working in a senior engineer role, including mentoring and design guidance.
• Direct experience with data modeling and data architecture design, with a solid understanding of database technology including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines and data processes capable of handling large volumes of data in a stable and observable manner.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and web services for both internal and external use.
• Proficiency with Scala.
• Proficiency with Python (including NumPy, Pandas, and related data libraries).
• Proficiency with SQL databases.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as SQL, HTML, JavaScript, or Shell.
• Proficiency with a data processing framework such as Spark, Flink, or similar.
• AWS experience or equivalent cloud experience.
• Experience with automated unit testing and acceptance testing frameworks.
• Working experience with source code version control (preferably Git and GitHub/GitLab).
• Working knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines, and practicing Test Driven Development.
• If you are not able to use your camera for all virtual meetings, you should not apply for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred but not required.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform is a plus.
• Knowledge of the healthcare industry is a plus.
• Healthcare industry experience, particularly with membership, eligibility, or benefits data.
• Experience owning and evolving core data or platform infrastructure at scale.
• Experience improving engineering productivity through standards, tooling, and automation.
• Background in reliability, performance optimization, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Adherence to engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, and operation of Availity’s data platform processes and services.
• Build and operate data processes that support reliable, secure, and scalable data ingestion, storage, processing, and access across the organization.
• Own a member-facing membership application end to end.
• Drive architecture and design decisions.
• Translate business and platform requirements into technical designs.
• Establish engineering standards.
• Mentor other engineers through disciplined execution.
• Partner closely with product, application engineering, information management, and analytics teams to ensure the platform and the membership application meet current and future business needs.
• Keep a keen eye on overall performance, reliability, and data integrity.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, data-driven systems and data processes that demonstrate best practices.
• Own a membership application end to end — from detailed design, documentation, and development through unit testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and processes capable of handling large volumes of data in a stable and observable manner.
• Improve the speed, efficiency, and scalability of the continuous integration environment, automating wherever possible using Python, SQL, RESTful APIs, and other frameworks.
• Apply modern software architecture patterns (distributed systems, microservices, etc.) to build well-structured, reusable, maintainable, and intentionally designed code.
• Consult on the design and development of databases, writing database queries and required table definition modifications.
• Leverage CI/CD principles using Git, Jira, and AWS.
• Create standards for and document the systems you help build.
• Review code written by other team members and collaborate with software and data engineers in the design and code review process.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers and provide design guidance across the team.
• Partner with all stakeholders to determine technical feasibility, estimate work efforts, and identify potential slippage or inter-team dependencies.
• Innovate and share ideas to improve products and processes, big and small.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus structure
• generous HSA company contribution
• healthcare
• vision
• dental benefits
• 401k match program
• unlimited PTO for salaried associates
• 9 paid holidays
• 19 days of PTO for hourly associates (starting)
• reimbursement up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• education reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior