Senior Software Engineer at Delta Dental Insurance Company in Alpharetta, GA

The Senior Software Engineer will help build our new and improved Provider Platform. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOps engineers.

How you will make an impact:

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study.
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
• Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
• Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
• Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
• Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
• Maintains knowledge, ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.

What we look for:

• 4+ years experience with a Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent technical education and experience.
• Expertise with Java/J2EE experience including frameworks such as Spring MVC and Hibernate.
• Experience with Spring Boot, microservices, NoSQL, caching and message queue technologies
• Integration experience consuming REST Services.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Azure or Google or PCF.
• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case.
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them.
• Ability to lead and manage small to large enterprise network implementations or changes.
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers.
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements.
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes.
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application.