Job Description

The Digital Platform team builds and supports the core technologies that power Stellarus products. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Applications, you will design, develop, and deploy secure, scalable mobile and cloud-based solutions. You will leverage AI, automation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices to deliver high-quality applications, improve engineering efficiency, and enhance operational reliability. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, champions code quality and continuous improvement, and applies modern technology trends to drive innovation and business value.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• With an Artificial Intelligence (AI) forward approach, design, develop, and deliver mobile applications and cloud-native solutions using modern frameworks, technical specifications, and architecture standards.
• Develop efficient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions by leveraging reusable components, platform capabilities, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Drive operational excellence through incident management, AI-enabled process automation, smooth deployments, and ongoing support of technology products and platform features.
• Enhance application reliability, scalability, and performance through CI/CD practices, cloud monitoring, configuration management, and proactive issue resolution.
• Coordinate support and integration activities across multiple application platforms and business processes, ensuring seamless operation within a cloud environment.
• Operate with a high degree of independence while applying knowledge of IT, cloud technologies, and healthcare industry trends to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in enterprise and mobile application development, support, and cloud-based solution delivery.
• Multiple years' experience building and deploying mobile applications using React Native is required. At least one year experience with native iOS and/or Android development is required. The ideal candidate's experience will be on critical mobile applications with large user base (hundreds of thousands to millions of users).
• Advanced hands-on experience designing, coding, integrating, securing, and deploying mobile applications and platform capabilities, including REST APIs, authentication, secure storage, performance optimization, and mobile security best practices.
• Experience using AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Rovo, Claude, or similar technologies to accelerate software delivery; leveraging AI within CI/CD pipelines is highly preferred.
• Strong scripting, automation, and DevSecOps experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices automate builds, testing, deployments, and cloud operations.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, service-oriented architecture, enterprise integrations, observability practices, and cloud-native technologies, preferably within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, evaluate risks and trade-offs, collaborate across stakeholders and vendors, lead engineering best practices, and communicate complex technical solutions effectively; healthcare industry experience is preferred.

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About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

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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