Software Engineer

Delta Dental•San Francisco, CA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

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 systems, 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 and provides technical guidance. 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. Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science, or related field and two (2) years of experience in Software Development or in the related role or job offered.
Create architecture diagrams to depict integrations of different application, service, and system level integrations.
Utilize GitHub for source code management.
Utilize Datadog for log storage and analysis.
Utilize containerization technologies, including Podman, to manage and deploy services.
Utilize Next.js and React.js for UI development.
Utilize Jenkins, CloudBees, or GitHub Actions for continuous integration and continuous delivery to automate the testing and deployment process.
Utilize Jira for work tracking and workflow management.
Utilize Confluence for maintaining technical documentation.
Utilize JavaScript and TypeScript for UI development.
Utilize Datadog or other monitoring software to review production infrastructure health post releases.
Utilize Datadog or other alerting software to manage alerts for production failures.
Utilize Contrast to perform a code security scan before releasing new features to production.
Create documents with details on every decision made in POC efforts.
Utilize test framework of choice for creation of automated unit tests

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 systems, 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 and provides technical guidance.
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.
Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.