Blue Shield Of California

Full Stack Engineer, Senior (Azure)

Blue Shield Of California$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience, with at least 4 years in enterprise application support and cloud delivery.
  • 4-7 years of software development experience, focusing on API development.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure API Management and security.
  • Proficiency in languages like C#/.NET, Java, or Python.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop cloud-native user interfaces and application programs.
  • Drive operational excellence through process automation and smooth deployments.
  • Enhance system reliability and scalability using CI/CD practices.
  • Monitor software configuration changes for data reliability and customer satisfaction.
  • Coordinate support for multiple application platforms in a cloud environment.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for personal, professional, and financial growth.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment with emphasis on leadership development.
  • Flexibility in hybrid work model, supporting both in-office and remote work.
  • Emphasis on continuous learning and process improvement.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Application Services team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The Full Stack Engineer (Azure) will report to the Senior Manager, Product Line Manager. In this role you will be deeply involved in the design, development, and deployment of secure, high-quality software solutions. Your role will focus on integrating security and automation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building infrastructure that supports CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native delivery. You'll implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices tailored for Azure, contribute to infrastructure as code, and work closely with developers, testers, and cloud engineers to ensure code is secure, scalable, and production-ready from day one. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about code quality, automation, and secure cloud development. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Design and develop user interfaces and application programs using technical specifications and design documents, with a focus on cloud-native solutions and modern frameworks.
  • Develop the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
  • Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features.
  • Recommend and implement improvements to departmental processes to enhance agility and efficiency.
  • Enhance the reliability, scalability, and utilization of systems and applications through continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
  • Monitor and manage software configuration changes to anticipate and address data reliability and customer satisfaction issues, leveraging cloud monitoring tools and practices.
  • Coordinate sustaining support for multiple application platforms or business processes, ensuring seamless integration and operation in a cloud environment.
  • Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.
  • Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends.


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience), with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in enterprise application support and cloud-based solution delivery.
  • Proven hands-on experience in the design, coding, integration, and deployment of applications on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux Server platforms, including strong knowledge of N & N-1 operating systems, Remote Desktop Services, and server technologies.
  • 4-7 years of software development experience, with strong focus on API development preferred.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, specifically: Azure API Management, Azure Functions / App Services and Azure AD & API security strongly preferred
  • Strong experience with REST, HTTP, JSON, OpenAPI (Swagger) and MuleSoft
  • Proficiency in one or more languages such as C#/.NET, Java, or Python.
  • Solid understanding of cloud architecture, scalability, resiliency, and performance tuning.
  • Experience integrating with enterprise systems and external partners.
  • Familiarity with messaging and event patterns (Service Bus, Event Grid).
  • Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible to automate cloud deployments.
  • Working knowledge of deploying and managing applications using containerization (Docker) in cloud environments like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise cloud integration, preferably with experience in Microsoft Azure and virtualization platforms such as Citrix.
  • Excellent ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams, with excellent verbal and written communication skills to translate and execute technical deliverables
  • Preferred experience in healthcare or health insurance domains (Enrollment, Eligibility, FHIR APIs).
  • Strong process orientation with the ability to follow and improve procedures for critical maintenance and operational tasks.


Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in - office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in - person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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