Senior Software Architect & Technical Leader

Highmark Health; United States; On-site; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health in the United States seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join an agile team building scalable digital solutions. You will own an enterprise-wide architectural view, guide technical execution of products, and collaborate with clients to translate requirements into robust designs.

This role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and hands-on development across modern stacks, with opportunities to explore cutting-edge technologies and contribute to product roadmaps.

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, GCP or AWS.
• 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#, 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 working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions or developing applications in healthcare
• 9 years translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
• 3 years 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 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 to ensure our products use 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

SDLC best practices

Large-scale apps

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE

Master's preferred

Tools

React

Angular

NodeJS

NoSQL databases

REST/JSON

Job description

Highmark Health in the United States seeks a Principal Software Engineer to join an agile team building scalable digital solutions. You will own an enterprise-wide architectural view, guide technical execution of products, and collaborate with clients to translate requirements into robust designs.

This role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and hands-on development across modern stacks, with opportunities to explore cutting-edge technologies and contribute to product roadmaps.