Principal Software Engineer — Architect & Lead Systems

Highmark Health; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced principal software engineer to lead scalable, enterprise-grade applications across digital channels. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with clients to align product roadmaps with technical execution.

Responsibilities include exploring new technologies, estimating development work, and delivering robust, secure software solutions. Preference for healthcare experience and advanced degrees.

Qualifications

• 9 years of proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems.
• 9 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred), and experience with at least three of the following: React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• 9 years in understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
• 9 years with two or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go
• 9 years of defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
• 9 years producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
• 9 years of translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
• 3 years of working with Machine Learning esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields

Responsibilities

• Lead the resolution of a variety of technical and business problems ensuring proper scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and robustness
• Responsible for idea generation, exploring and implementing appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features, as well as monitoring technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• Explore new technologies and architectural concepts in order to ensure our products are using cutting-edge solutions.
• Participate in high-level development estimations to help ensure roadmap execution is on target.
• Present solutions and ideas to team members and management to drive technical solutions and implementations.
• Mentor and provide leadership to other software engineers as needed
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills

Stretch goals

Agile / Scrum

Software engineering best practices

Large scale applications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/CE

Master's Degree in CS/CE

Tools

React

Angular

NodeJS

NoSQL

HTML5

CSS

REST

JSON

Java

Python

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced principal software engineer to lead scalable, enterprise-grade applications across digital channels. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with clients to align product roadmaps with technical execution.

Responsibilities include exploring new technologies, estimating development work, and delivering robust, secure software solutions. Preference for healthcare experience and advanced degrees.