Lead Full-Stack Engineer (API/EDI)
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What we need
At BCBSMA, we are seeking an experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer to drive our cutting-edge technology initiatives in an agile environment. As a hands-on leader, you will guide the end-to-end development process, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions. Your role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, contributing to the product strategy discussions, mentoring, and training a skilled team of Full stack engineers while upholding coding standards and best practices.
In addition to your technical leadership, you will foster a culture of continuous learning and emphasize collaboration with other teams to align development efforts with broader organizational goals. Your adaptability and resilience will be crucial as you manage multiple priorities and deadlines to make a significant impact on our projects.
Your Day to Day
- Provide guidance and leadership throughout the full software development life cycle.
- Hands-on involvement in creating coding standards, best practices, and development tasks.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with Initiative goals.
- Participate in product strategy discussions to align development efforts with overarching goals.
- Contribute insights on technical feasibility and implementation strategies.
- Address and troubleshoot complex technical issues in a timely manner.
- Propose and implement effective solutions to overcome development challenges.
- Provide mentorship, training, and guidance to Junior engineers.
- Manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.
- Develop and evangelize automation to optimize operational processes.
- Oversee creation and maintenance of technical documentation and user guides in support of developed software.
- Maintain a high level of familiarity with BCBSMA IT system/business application capabilities to make critical operational & design decisions.
- Effectively communicate project expectations, issues, risks, and decisions to project team and business stakeholders.
We’re Looking for:
- Experience using container technologies: VMware Tanzu or Kubernetes based container technologies like OpenShift and AWS EKS.
- AWS managed services: DynamoDB, S3, Postgres SQL, EKS, Amazon Kafka (MSK), OpenSearch, preferably from a prior development and engineering background in the Java ecosystem.
- REST APIs using Java/EE, Spring/Spring Boot, Spring Cloud.
- Prior experience in modernizing legacy applications, migrating monolithic code to microservices architectures, performance tuning, and application monitoring.
- Experience designing and implementing event-driven systems leveraging message broker, event bus, and streaming technologies.
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience with API security standards like OAuth, SAML, 2-way SSL.
- Experience with API Gateways like Apigee, AWS API Gateway.
- Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools, frameworks, and methodologies like Jenkins, Maven, Jira, ServiceNow, GitLab, Junit.
- Experience implementing and maintaining EDI transaction processing in the Healthcare domain.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent is required.
- 10+ years of technology experience. Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in backend technology stack and platforms.
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience with REST APIs including microservices architecture.
- 4+ years of experience in AWS Cloud or equivalent & API Gateways.
- 4+ years of implementation experience using DevSecOps tools to build CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and redesigning monolithic apps.
- Experience working in an agile work environment.
- Experience in leading, mentoring teams and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
- Healthcare experience working with EDI transactions preferred.
- Understanding security best practices is preferred.
- Technology certifications preferred.
Minimum Education Requirements:
High school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above.
Location
Boston
Time Type
Full time
Salary Range: $138,870.00 - $169,730.00
This job is also eligible for variable pay.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and a suite of well-being benefits to eligible employees.
WHY Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA?
We understand that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can prevent amazing candidates from applying, so please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is an Equal Employment / Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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