Lead Software Engineer - Full-Stack (Hybrid)

CareFirst
Washington, DC
07 Mar 2025

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Resp & Qualifications

SUMMARY:

As a Lead software engineer in delivery organization, candidate is expected to contribute to multiple high visibility applications, work with multiple teams and have ability to architect scalable, fault tolerant systems. You will be responsible for designing solution that spans multiple systems. You share passion to learn new technologies and mentor junior engineers to achieve best results. To be successful in this role you must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality code in a fast-pacedenvironment.

This position is a Hybird position (Hybrid employees primarily work from a physical location of their choice within the company's default region of Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). Depending on business need this may result in occasionally working in the company's DC or Virginia location.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Lead a team of software engineers supporting multiple applications and take ownership of delivery.
  • Perform technical design, coding, deploying, testing, and troubleshooting java-based services. Serves as subject matter expert for both customer and internal discussions related to maintaining and enhancing existing software systems.
  • Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
  • Decomposes functional and technical requirements into project activities and tasks and provides conceptual design, prototype, use case, and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
  • Performs operations & maintenance (O&M) of existing systems. Identifies areas for improvement and streamlining. Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programing and integration frameworks and tools.
  • Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project.
  • Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads. Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree inInformation Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Licenses/Certifications: AWS Certified Developer – Associate upon hire.

Experience: 8years Software requirements management, design and development, architecture, software test and evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
  • Works closely with cross functional teams to provide insight into delivering business value and meeting objectives.
  • Hands-on development experience using Java, Spring related technologies such as Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, spring Batch and scheduler/task and Spring Integration.
  • Experience in developing services using REST and SOAP APIs.
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies ( e.g. AWS, Azure).
  • Experience with database technologies (e.g. DB2, Oracle, Hive, Mongo DB etc.).
  • Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies.
  • Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework.
  • Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
  • Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
  • Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC). Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure, performance, monitoring.
  • Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Ensure code quality, deployment standards and practices. Mentoring junior developers.
  • Experience working in Apache Kafka/Confluent platform including Kafka consumer, Kafka Streams.
  • Proficient with integrating complex and/or existing systems.
  • Healthcare experience is preferred.

Department

Department: Claims

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of theCompany to provide equal employment opportunities to allqualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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Actual salary will be based on relevant job experience and work history.

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Federal Disc/Physical Demand

Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.

Sponsorship in US

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship

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