Unissant

Lead Software Developer

Unissant$120K — $150K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on software development experience in enterprise applications.
  • 5+ years in a technical leadership role, guiding software development teams.
  • Strong design and development experience with RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • Proven experience with high-volume transaction processing and business-critical applications.
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of enterprise applications serving business operations.
  • Create API-based services for integration with CMS and external healthcare data.
  • Design application enhancements for legislative updates like the IRA.
  • Oversee code development activities during Agile sprint cycles.
  • Collaborate with architects and DevSecOps teams for workflow integration.
  • Develop operational dashboards and user-facing applications for CMS stakeholders.
  • Troubleshoot production failures and support incident resolution.

Benefits

  • Primarily remote work with occasional travel required.
  • Collaborative work environment with Agile methodologies.
  • Opportunity to lead and mentor a software development team.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects for federal healthcare systems.
  • Flexibility in work hours to meet project deadlines.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Lead Software Developer to join our team and support our federal customer.

The Lead Software Developer will provide senior development leadership responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing the core application components supporting operations.

*This position is contingent upon contract award.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Lead development of enterprise applications supporting all business operations.
  • Build new API-based integration services supporting communication with CMS enterprise systems and external healthcare data providers.
  • Design application enhancements supporting legislative changes including Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) implementation and future Medicare policy changes.
  • Lead code development activities across Agile sprint cycles including technical estimation, backlog refinement, code reviews, and release execution.
  • Collaborate closely with architects and DevSecOps teams integrating automated testing, code scanning, and release automation processes into development workflows.
  • Develop operational dashboards, business intelligence integrations, and user-facing administrative applications supporting CMS stakeholders.
  • Maintain application performance optimization supporting large-scale transaction processing workloads.
  • Troubleshoot production application failures, investigate root cause analysis, and support high-priority production incident resolution.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

Required Experience:
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development, designing and building enterprise-grade applications.
  • At least 5 years of experience serving in a technical leadership role, leading software development teams and providing technical direction.
  • Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex, high-volume enterprise applications.
  • Strong experience developing business-critical applications supporting high-volume transaction processing.
  • Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience developing and maintaining business rules engines and workflow-driven applications.
  • Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications using modern application architecture patterns.
  • Experience supporting the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
  • Proven experience working within Agile development environments using Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
  • Experience utilizing modern DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation.
  • Experience developing secure, scalable, high-performance applications for enterprise production environments.
  • Experience integrating enterprise applications with internal and external systems using APIs, messaging, or event-driven architectures.
  • Experience supporting applications within federal healthcare, healthcare claims processing, financial transaction systems, or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred.
  • Experience mentoring software engineers, conducting code reviews, and establishing development best practices.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and driving continuous application performance, scalability, and reliability improvements.

Preferred Experience:
  • Healthcare application development
  • Medicare claims processing systems
  • Business rules engine development
  • Large-scale transaction processing systems

Required Technical Skills:

Development Languages
  • Python (primary development language)
  • SQL
  • Scala
  • Bash scripting
  • YAML configuration management
  • Groovy scripting

Software Development
  • Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • REST API development
  • Application architecture design
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Secure coding standards
  • Enterprise application debugging

Development Tools
  • GitHub source control
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Jenkins integration
  • Code review tools
  • Dependency management frameworks

Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree required with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Information Systems or related experience.

Communication Skills:
  • Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to present proposals and performance data, comfortable interfacing all levels of organization
  • Ability to write clear and concise creative content in a highly confidential manner

Travel:
  • This position is primarily remote with occasional travel (up to 5%) as required.

Environmental Requirements:
  • Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
  • May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.
  • Flexible in working extended hours

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

About Unissant

Unissant is a data analytics and business transformation services provider. The company offers services in data management, analytics, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence. Unissant serves clients in the healthcare, finance, and government sectors. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Learn more about Unissant
Size
500 employees
Industry
Net Income
$1 million
Founded
2006
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$20 million

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