Technical Lead Software Engineer (Java, React, Spring boot)
About The Position
We are seeking a talented and motivated Technology Engineer to join our Member Portal 2.0 Team. The Lead Tech Software Engineer serves as an experienced technical professional responsible for the design, implementation, support, and continuous improvement of enterprise technology solutions within assigned areas of responsibility. This role handles complex assignments with limited supervision and team autonomy, providing clear communication, interpretations, and technical guidance within their area of specialty. The engineer applies developing professional knowledge to influence functional objectives and contribute to effective team practices. With growing decision‑making authority, the position exercises creativity and sound judgment to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. This role is responsible for developing and supporting technology solutions to advance the Digital applications by using the latest technology, integrating with multiple data sources, and solving complex problems. The IT Engineer IV will work with a team of developers and interact closely with business subject matter experts to design and build solutions that help Medica members, providers and brokers do business with us using our portals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
- 5+ years of product related work experience beyond degree
- Proficient with Java and React
Nice To Haves
- Experience converting applications from .Net to Java
- Experience or exposure to Jireh
- Healthcare industry experience
- Analytical and systems thinking
- Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder alignment skills
Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, selecting appropriate technologies and patterns
- Develop clean, testable, secure code using modern programming languages and cloud based interfaces, using emerging AI solutions.
- Write SQL queries using Oracle or SQL Server to access data from multiple data sources
- Automate deployments and configuration using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), GitHub, and Jenkins.
- Validate solutions via functional tests, performance benchmarking, and post-implementation reviews
- Maintain and optimize code (front end and back-end, apis), and define core infrastructure needs
- Utilize Test-Driven Development (TDD) to design and implement robust, high-quality code that ensures reliability and simplifies long-term maintenance.
- Execute change management processes, including peer reviews, change records, and rollback planning.
- Troubleshoot production incidents to resolve within SLAs and investigate root cause to prevent reoccurrence
- Implement monitoring and logging to assist with debugging.
- Proactively monitor software to identify vulnerabilities before they turn into outages
- Communicate incident status and next steps to stakeholders.
- Track recurring issues and convert learnings into backlog items, automation, or policy updates.
- Enforce identity, access, and endpoint controls (e.g., least privilege, MFA, certificate management).
- Remediate security vulnerabilities through timely patching, configuration hardening, and dependency updates.
- Support audits by maintaining evidence (e.g., asset inventories, change logs, backup and recovery tests).
- Implement data protection and logging standards aligned to organizational policies and frameworks.
- Produce clear technical documentation: architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and comments in code.
- Develop and expand foundational understanding and use of Artificial Intelligence/AI
- Mentor peers and partner teams through code reviews, office hours, and knowledge sessions.
- Provide technical guidance to product owners, stakeholders and business partners on effort, risks, and trade-offs.
- Contribute to agile team rituals (standups, retros, sprint planning, demos, backlog refinement, PI planning) and drive continuous improvement.
- Experience writing object-oriented code with java, React, and working with UI/UX designers to ensure optimal performance and accessibility.
- Experience in cloud platforms with end to end application building
Benefits
- competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
