Senior Java/Spring Boot Engineer — Hybrid & Mentor

Elevance Health; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health in Virginia- Richmond is seeking a Senior Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) to deliver end-to-end applications on multi-technology platforms within a hybrid work model. You will collaborate with customers to gather requirements, drive changes, and lead technical discussions across teams.

The role emphasizes design patterns, microservices, CI/CD, and mentoring, with a salary range highlighted for the location and a strong focus on collaboration and governance.

Qualifications

• Full Stack Java Developer with hands-on experience with Java 21, Spring, Spring Boot, WebSphere, and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, Spring DAO).
• Intermediate proficiency with Oracle, RESTful web services design and development, JUnit, and SQL.
• Experience working with multiple platform (Linux, Cloud(Azure)).
• Experience deploying applications to servers (preferably WebSphere) and working with CI/CD tools such as Checkmarx, SonarQube, and Artifactory.
• Strong understanding of design patterns and their application throughout the development lifecycle.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience mentoring others, leading multiple small projects and providing troubleshooting support is preferred.
• Facets Provider domain knowledge preferred.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Windsurf) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact cross functional teams.
• Researches and may propose new technologies.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• May own technical testing to ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Assesses current status and supports data information planning.
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
• Maintains technical development environment.
• Mentors others and may lead multiple or small to medium sized projects.
• Will begin to set direction at the project/service level and influences decision-making.
• Provides technical guidance, and mentoring.
• Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product needs of the technical solutions.
• Identifies and propose strategies around technical problems affecting team, communicates standards and gets buy-in on solutions.
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues. Supports vendor evaluation.

Skills

Java 21

Spring

Spring Boot

RESTful Web Services

JUnit

SQL

Linux

Azure

Design patterns

Microservices

Mentoring

Troubleshooting

GitHub Copilot

Windsurf

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Oracle

WebSphere

Checkmarx

SonarQube

Artifactory

Linux

Azure

Job description

Elevance Health in Virginia- Richmond is seeking a Senior Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) to deliver end-to-end applications on multi-technology platforms within a hybrid work model. You will collaborate with customers to gather requirements, drive changes, and lead technical discussions across teams.

The role emphasizes design patterns, microservices, CI/CD, and mentoring, with a salary range highlighted for the location and a strong focus on collaboration and governance.