Software Engineer

Delta Dental•Alpharetta, GA

86d

About The Position

The Software Engineer specializes in optimizing the speed, scalability, and reliability of software applications, infrastructure, and systems of the Claims Processing System, MetaVance. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering, defining, and analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) such as response time, throughput, and latency of existing application. Responsibilities also include monitoring and tuning Azure based architectures using native tools. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation engineers, and DevOps engineers.

Requirements

2+ years of experience and degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent technical education and experience
Proficiency in Java and its framework, Python, JavaScript, or other relevant programming languages
Identifying slow database queries using APM tools like New Relic, Datadog, or Dynatrace
Familiarity with high-performance API communication
Expertise in creating, maintaining and enhancing REST API
Debugging threading, garbage collection (GC), and memory leaks
Good knowledge of Azure Cloud Platform Services (AKS), Docker Containerization with Kubernetes Orchestration
Experience in Datadog and Azure Observability/Monitoring platform
Experience in DevOps/GitOps
Experience with production support (Abend resolution, documentation)
Knowledge of current trends and best practices enabling sound technology choices and strategic decisions
Ability to research and apply innovative methodologies, latest industry trends, design patterns
Recognizes underlying problems, opportunities, or the political forces affecting the organization
Demonstrates mastery in their area of expertise and are recognized as an authority on it by their peers and leaders
Evaluates and generates options that scan the entire spectrum of software reliability, ease of adoption, scalability, operational ease, and skillset availability
Knowledge of agile development methodologies
Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships
Life-long learner, process improver
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
Experience in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow

Nice To Haves

Experience with Istio/Knative/Ngnix is a plus
Experience with MetaVance Online and Batch Processing is a plus
Knowledge of building MetaVance on a specific server is a plus
Knowledge of MetaVance Application or any Healthcare Claims processing system is a plus
Flexible with work schedule (supporting on-call for Production and Pre-Production environments)

Responsibilities

Builds, configures, customizes and supports products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
Reviews architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.
Works with teams and 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.
Exhibits efficiency in writing 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 creates a team culture of documenting everything.
Collaborates closely with engineering leadership, product managers, designers, QA, and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence, and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
Scopes effort, identifies risks, and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members.
Foresees and assesses impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
Supports and collaborates with other engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
Maintains knowledge and ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Performs other duties as requested or assigned.