Staff Software Engineer- Java

Job Summary

Join a team solving some of the hardest problems in healthcare by building the services that help millions of people find the right doctors, understand healthcare costs, and choose the next best step in their care. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Health Plan Applications and Services team, this role is responsible for developing the services that power the member-facing experience, ensuring existing systems remain robust while architecting the next generation of care guidance tools. The position offers the opportunity to write a significant amount of code, build deep expertise in system design, solve complex technical challenges, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering organization.

Essential Functions

• Develop and maintain backend services by writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code that supports high-throughput and low-latency requirements.
• Effective in paired programming and working independently.
• Mentor other engineers and elevate the technical capabilities and overall effectiveness of the engineering team.
• Lead the team through architectural, product, and priority tradeoffs and decision making.
• Participate in the deployment and monitoring of services within the AWS ecosystem.
• Participate in code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to observability through logging and metrics; participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Contribute to task definition, prioritization, and assignment.
• Drive deliverables with a sense of urgency and ownership along with surfacing risks, mitigating them, and suggesting course corrections when appropriate.
• Owning multiple products with a DevOps and service-ownership mindset. Deliver quality solutions with test automation, instrumentation, monitoring, secure/defensive coding, resiliency, and scalability.
• Collaborate on work with the team and other contributing teams, engaging cross-functionally to ensure successful project and/or product delivery.

Minimum Requirements

• Specific Job Skills:
• Demonstrates a passion for coding and consistently delivers high-quality, maintainable, and easy-to-understand production software.
• Possesses a strong understanding of software design patterns and their importance in building scalable, reliable applications.
• Proficiency in Java (or similar language with the ability to learn Java quickly) building production APIs and services.
• Experience building and deploying applications in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
• Understanding of RESTful API design and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Strong knowledge of software fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, and testing).
• Experience writing comprehensive unit and functional tests and being responsible for quality.
• Experience with other technologies we use on the team such as Python, OpenSearch, Pulumi, Postgres, DynamoDB, Datomic, Clojure, Javascript/TypeScript, React, and more.
• Experience building and maintaining Search APIs.
• Experience building AI powered solutions.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend development
• Supervision: N/A
• Certifications: N/A
• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a variety of both internal and external sources.
• Physical Capabilities: Standard categories. The physical capabilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.