About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. This role combines strong backend engineering with hands-on involvement in release readiness, production deployment, monitoring, and cross-team coordination. You will contribute to high-impact technical decisions, maintain engineering excellence, and help drive smooth, reliable release cycles.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience.
  • Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.
  • Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns.
  • 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
  • Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
  • Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness.
  • Experience supporting production deployments and performing post‑deployment validation.
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.
  • High level of ownership and ability to operate with minimal guidance.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA).
  • Background in roles combining development + release/operations.
  • Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools.
  • Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems.
  • Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with technical leaders to contribute to architecture, design frameworks, and roadmap planning.
  • Provide engineering guidance during early-stage designs and ensure strong technical execution.
  • Build reliable, scalable distributed systems and backend services.
  • Lead key technical decisions for high-risk or high-impact initiatives.
  • Drive features from prototype to production with end-to-end ownership.
  • Collaborate with product, architecture, security, digital, and engineering teams.
  • Work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
  • Take ownership in a remote/hybrid setup and ensure strong communication across teams.
  • Identify customer pain points and propose self‑service automation solutions.
  • Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and a positive, collaborative team culture.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental benefits
  • 401k retirement plan
  • variable pay/incentives
  • paid time off
  • paid holidays
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