Principal Software Engineer: Secure & Scalable Health Apps

Highmark Health; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build scalable, public-facing applications across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own the full SDLC, define service topologies, and lead vendor migrations while ensuring PHI protection, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.

You will write ADRs, present strategic solutions to leadership, and guide architecture reviews and security teams. This role requires 9+ years of deep software engineering and cloud experience in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field.
• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead resolution of technical and business problems ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and robustness.
• Generate and explore technical solutions to achieve features while monitoring progress against plan.
• Explore new technologies and architectural concepts for cutting-edge solutions.
• Participate in high-level development estimations to ensure roadmap targets.
• Present solutions to team and management to drive technical implementations.
• Mentor and lead other engineers as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

REST/HTTPS/JSON

Security & privacy by default

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/CE or related

Master's Degree in CS/CE preferred

Tools

React

Angular

NodeJS

GCP

AWS

Job description

enGen is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to build scalable, public-facing applications across Digital Member Experience channels. You will own the full SDLC, define service topologies, and lead vendor migrations while ensuring PHI protection, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.

You will write ADRs, present strategic solutions to leadership, and guide architecture reviews and security teams. This role requires 9+ years of deep software engineering and cloud experience in a