Sr. Full Stack Digital Services Software Engineer #1826

Wellmark • Des Moines, IA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Wellmark, Inc. seeks a Sr. Full Stack Digital Services Software Engineer to lead full stack development for the Digital Services team. This role involves performing detailed systems analysis and implementing high-performing, efficient, and cost-effective software solutions that support Wellmark’s business and Technology applications. The engineer will guide the team in design, development, code testing, and debugging, focusing on emerging technologies. They will orchestrate cross-functional end-to-end execution across diverse platforms, adhering to Wellmark's SDLC standards and SAFe methodology to make advancements accessible to Information Product teams. The position requires close collaboration with UX/UI designers, product managers, Architects, and DevOps engineers to create responsive, interactive, and high-performing applications with a seamless user experience across multiple devices. Responsibilities include developing and optimizing web pages for speed, accessibility, and scalability, as well as developing and optimizing backend architecture for scalability, performance, and security. The role involves writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, ensuring mobile responsiveness, analyzing defects for root cause, and providing production support. The engineer will use data and cost measures to influence decisions and support project objectives and benefits realization, identify known issues, and escalate as necessary. Contribution to a collaborative agile environment, including PI Planning, iteration planning, estimation, demos, and retrospectives, is also expected.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Technology, Computer Engineering, or related field of study.
• 72 months of experience in the job offered or related position in software development.
• 48 months of experience in the health insurance industry.
• 48 months of experience designing, building, and maintaining high-performing, user-friendly web application front ends, leveraging Angular, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS (Reactive Extensions), and Bootstrap.
• 48 months of experience designing, building, and maintaining back-end services using Node.js, Express.js, Swagger/OpenAPI (API Documentation), and JWT (Authentication).
• 48 months of experience using SAFe and Agile methodologies.
• Experience understanding, designing, and implementing monolith, microservice, and event driven architecture.
• Experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB, and MySQL database technologies.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-hosted applications, leveraging Lambda, SNS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloudfront, API Gateway, IAM (Security/Access Management) SQS, and CDK.
• Experience containerizing and deploying container-based applications using Docker.
• Experience developing accessible web applications.
• Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD processes using Azure DevOps.
• Experience applying test-driven development principles, leveraging tools including Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, and Angular Testing Library.
• Experience with paired programming and XP Practices.
• Experience with UX Design tools.
• Experience using data to support gathering information, performing necessary research for root cause analysis, providing problem definition and formulation, and recommending solution implementation, verification, and ongoing optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead full stack development for the Digital Services team.
• Perform detailed systems analysis and implementation of high performing software solutions.
• Lead system development and guide the team in design, development, code testing and debugging.
• Focus on utilization of emerging technologies.
• Orchestrate cross-functional end-to-end execution across diverse platforms, aligned with Wellmark's SDLC standards and SAFe methodology.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers, product managers, Architects and DevOps engineers to create responsive, interactive, and high performing applications.
• Deliver high quality code that ensures a seamless user experience across multiple devices.
• Develop and optimize web pages for maximum speed, accessibility and scalability.
• Develop and optimize backend architecture ensuring scalability, performance and security.
• Write clean, maintainable and efficient code, adhering to best practices and Wellmark engineering standards.
• Ensure mobile responsiveness of applications.
• Ensure analysis of defects to find root cause and guide others in the identification of potential improvement opportunities.
• Provide production support of applications including root cause analysis and break-fix resolution.
• Use data and cost measures to influence timely decisions, build consensus, and take actions to successfully deliver project or production support objectives.
• Support benefits realization.
• Identify known issues, impacts to project or production outcomes if not resolved and escalate as necessary.
• Contribute to a collaborative agile environment, including PI Planning, iteration planning, estimation, demos and retrospectives.

Benefits

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• Flexibility to work where you are most productive.
• This position is eligible to work fully remote.
• Option to come into a Wellmark office depending on location.
• Leader may ask you to come into the office occasionally for specific meetings or other ‘moments that matter’.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees