Senior Golang / Full Stack Developer – Healthcare

Infosat IT Services LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene Corp seeks an experienced Senior Golang / Full Stack Developer to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable healthcare applications and backend services supporting Provider Operations. The role demands strong backend and frontend skills (Golang, PostgreSQL, React) and comfort with AI-assisted Windsurf for code generation, debugging, and testing within HIPAA-compliant environments.

Candidates should have healthcare payer ecosystem experience, provider onboarding, directories, networks,

Qualifications

• Experience in backend/full-stack development in healthcare or payer domains.
• Hands-on Golang, PostgreSQL, React proficiency.
• Experience with Windsurf or similar AI-assisted development is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of HIPAA, PHI and healthcare data security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang.
• Build RESTful APIs and microservices for healthcare applications.
• Design scalable architectures for enterprise healthcare environments.
• Troubleshoot performance, database, and integration issues.
• Develop tests and support automated testing.
• Implement logging, monitoring and production support.
• Collaborate with SMEs, product owners, architects, and QA.

Skills

Golang / Go

PostgreSQL

React

Windsurf

REST APIs

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Unit testing

Security

HIPAA/PHI

AWS

Kafka

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Client: Centene Corp

Role: Senior Software Developer / Full Stack Developer

Experience: 8 years preferred

Locations: St. Louis, MO / Dallas, TX / New York, NY

Work Arrangement: Hybrid / Remote

Primary Skills: Golang, PostgreSQL, React, Windsurf

Domain: U.S. Healthcare — Provider Operations

AI Development: Hands-on Windsurf experience is strongly preferred.

Candidate should have strong backend/full-stack development experience.

Healthcare experience should ideally include Provider Operations / Provider Data.

Strong understanding of HIPAA, PHI, healthcare data security, and privacy is expected.

Job Summary

Centene Corp is seeking an experienced Senior Golang / Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Golang, PostgreSQL, React, and AI-assisted development using Windsurf.

The developer will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable healthcare applications and backend services supporting Provider Operations.

The ideal candidate will combine strong backend engineering skills with full-stack development experience and a solid understanding of the U.S. healthcare payer ecosystem. Experience with provider onboarding, provider demographics, directories, networks, affiliations, specialties, service locations, credentialing, and related workflows is highly valuable.

The role also requires the ability to effectively use Windsurf and AI-assisted development practices for code generation, debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code analysis while maintaining enterprise security, quality, and maintainability standards.

Key Responsibilities

Backend & Application Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang (Go).
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices supporting healthcare applications.
• Design and implement scalable application architectures for enterprise healthcare environments.
• Troubleshoot application, API, integration, database, and performance issues.
• Develop unit and integration tests and support automated testing.
• Implement logging, monitoring, debugging, and production-support processes.
• Participate in solution design, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production support.

PostgreSQL & Data Development

• Design and optimize PostgreSQL database schemas and data models.
• Develop efficient SQL queries and data-access components.
• Perform database indexing and query optimization.
• Troubleshoot and improve database performance and scalability.
• Build data solutions supporting healthcare and provider-related workflows.

React / Full Stack Development

• Develop and enhance responsive web applications using React.
• Work with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Integrate React applications with backend APIs and microservices.
• Participate across the full application development lifecycle.

Healthcare / Provider Operations

Develop solutions supporting Provider Operations, including:

• Provider onboarding
• Provider lifecycle management
• Provider demographics
• Provider directories
• Provider networks
• Provider affiliations
• Provider specialties
• Service locations
• Credentialing and recredentialing
• Provider data quality
• Provider-related integration workflows

Work closely with healthcare SMEs, Product Owners, Business Analysts, architects, and QA teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Windsurf / AI-Assisted Development

• Use Windsurf as part of day-to-day software development.

• Leverage Windsurf for:

• Code generation

• Refactoring

• Debugging

• Unit-test generation

• Documentation

• Code analysis

• Use Windsurf to accelerate development of:

• Golang services

• PostgreSQL components

• REST APIs

• React applications

• Provide appropriate application/codebase context and instructions to AI-assisted development tools.

• Review, validate, test, and optimize AI-generated code before integrating it into enterprise applications.

• Apply AI-assisted development practices without compromising code quality, security, maintainability, or enterprise standards.

• Follow enterprise security, privacy, coding, and code-review requirements when using AI development tools.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on Golang / Go development experience.

• Strong PostgreSQL experience, including:

• SQL

• Data modeling

• Indexing

• Query optimization

• Performance tuning

• Hands-on React development.

• Strong JavaScript / TypeScript skills.

• HTML and CSS.

• Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices, JSON, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Hands-on Windsurf or similar AI-assisted development environment experience; Windsurf strongly preferred.

• Experience developing cloud-native and containerized applications.

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong unit testing and integration testing experience.

• Experience with debugging, logging, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.

• Understanding of secure software development practices.

• Ability to work with applications containing healthcare data / PHI.

Must-Have Healthcare Experience

• Experience with the U.S. Healthcare / Healthcare Payer ecosystem.

• Experience in Provider Operations.

• Understanding of provider onboarding and provider lifecycle management.

• Experience with provider demographic and directory information.

• Understanding of:

• Provider networks

• Affiliations

• Specialties

• Service locations

• Credentialing / recredentialing

• Familiarity with provider data quality and provider integration workflows.

• Understanding of healthcare concepts including:

• NPI

• TIN

• Taxonomy

• Health Plans

• Claims

• Members

• Provider Networks

• Understanding of HIPAA, PHI, healthcare privacy, and security requirements.

• Ability to work with healthcare business SMEs and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Skills

• AWS
• Kafka
• Event-driven architecture
• Healthcare APIs
• Healthcare integration standards
• Automated testing frameworks
• Observability and monitoring tools
• Large-scale healthcare application modernization
• Cloud-native application development
• Microservices architecture
• Container orchestration