Senior Software Engineer

Delta Dental of California; Rancho Cordova (CA); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base and incentive pay

401(k) with robust matching

Rich medical & pharmacy benefits

100% employer-paid dental and vision

Job summary

Delta Dental of California is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. You will design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and secure applications while collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and DevOps teams.

You will mentor engineers and drive best practices in coding, testing, and deployment. The role emphasizes architecture, performance monitoring, and continuous delivery, with opportunities to influence technology choices and vendor

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.
• Experience designing scalable and secure applications.
• Experience with Azure or similar cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to architectural design and coding across the Next Gen Applications Suite.
• Develops production-ready software using best-practice data structures and frameworks.
• Mentors engineers and participates in code reviews and deployments.
• Defines requirements with product managers and ensures production health.

Skills

Communication

Agile development

Mentoring

Cloud computing

Performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Azure

Azure Document Intelligence/OCR

Pega Applications

Formworks

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOps engineers.

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that is developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
• Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results
• Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management
• Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades

• 4+ years of experience w/Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent technical field (MS is a plus)
• Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education or degree
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure applications and products
• Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform
• Experience developing and enhancing Formworks-based applications
• Experience with Azure Document Intelligence/OCR
• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
• Life-long learner, process improver
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Pega Applications is a plus
• Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow

Base Pay Information

The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. Pay Grade 22. $92,500 - $200,400

Behind the smile!

We are dedicated to safeguarding the health and financial stability of our employees and their loved ones. This commitment extends beyond the workplace to foster personal growth and holistic wellbeing. Our life-changing rewards package includes:

• Competitive base and incentive pay
• 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
• 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
• Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
• Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
• Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
• Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
• Employee discount program

Fair Chance Ordinances and Criminal Background Considerations

This position requires that the applicant undergo a background check. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with any applicable federal, state or local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and/or New York Corrections Law Article 23-A.

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