Senior Software Engineer - Medicare IT (Work at Home Optional)

Company: Humana
Location: Glen Allen
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

**Description**The Senior Software Engineer codes software applications based on business requirements. The Senior Software Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.**Responsibilities**As a Senior Software Engineer for Medicare IT organization, you will be part of a mature and strong solution design and application development team dedicated to delivering business value to our customers. You will collaborate with a cross functional teams to design, implement, test, and continuously deliver new features and products for our customers. You will design and code software applications based on business requirements with focus on code quality, performance, security and resiliency. You will build new solutions in cloud and transform the current applications to cloud native solutions using modern technology stack and modern engineering practices. You will help grow engineering best practices, develop REST APIs, asynchronous events, and data pipelines and mature our automation capabilities to deliver and deploy secure, quality code.The Senior Software Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. The ideal candidate for this role will be an enthusiastic problem-solver who is comfortable taking charge, making sound business decisions and formulating creative tactical solutions to business and operational problems, all while handling multiple tasks simultaneously.**Responsibilities**+ Write high-quality code that satisfies customer needs and strives for simplicity, clarity, and testability.+ Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues to achieve business objectives.+ Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g. business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.+ Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems.+ Participate in scope of work estimation and forecasting.+ Adhere to architecture, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices.+ Participate in code reviews or use collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes.+ Conduct analysis to determine integration needs, and design and plan integrations.+ Implement unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate.+ Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery.+ Improve performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues.+ Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans, test results, and technical manuals.+ Adhere to established development practices and processes.+ Coach and mentor junior software engineers.+ Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction.+ Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.**Required Qualifications**+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of software engineering experience+ Strong proficiency in one or more coding languages such as .Net Core (C#), Node.js, Java, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, etc.,+ Working knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD principles and practices.+ Experience with agile development methodologies.+ Experience and firm understanding of secure coding practices, API designs, working with relational and NoSQL databases, REST APIs, XML, XSLT, JSON, Micro Services and Containers.+ Understanding of 12 factor app methodology used for building software-as-a-service applications that are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes etc.,+ Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.**Preferred Qualifications**+ Master's degree in computer science or related field.+ Cloud Certification+ Experience working in Health Care Industry or a large enterpriseAdditional Information:For this job, associates are required to be fully COVID vaccinated (preferred) or undergo weekly COVID testing and wear a face covering while at work. The weekly testing will need to be done through an approved Humana vendor, and unvaccinated associates should follow all social distancing and masking protocols if they are required to come into a Humana facility or work outside of their home. We are a?healthcare?company committed to putting health and safety first for our members, patients, associates, and the communities we serve.If progressed to offer, you will be required to:+ Provide proof of full vaccination?or commit to testing protocols **OR??**+ Provide proof of applicable exemption including any required supporting documentation??Medical, religious, state and remote-only work exemptions are available.**Scheduled Weekly Hours**40

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