Senior Software Engineer - Microservices

Delta Dental Ins.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 92,500 - 200,400; Full time

Job summary

Delta Dental Ins. in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure microservices supporting enterprise platforms.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, and application teams to deliver production-ready code, automated tests, and strong performance monitoring.

Candidates should have 4+ years of experience, a BS in CS, Azure expertise, Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, and a focus on security and observability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent technical field.
• Experience designing scalable, secure applications and products.
• Experience developing and deploying applications on Azure or a similar cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and support scalable, secure microservices.
• Participate in architecture, system analysis, and programming activities.
• Deliver production-ready code with quality and performance.
• Write documentation and promote code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and drive modernization.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

REST APIs

Azure

DevOps

Microservices

TDD

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

MS degree preferred

Tools

AKS

Docker

Git

CI/CD

ArgoCD

Helm

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable, secure, and performant microservices-based applications supporting enterprise platforms. The role operates across the full SDLC and collaborates with cross‑functional teams including Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, Application teams, performance test team, and Platform.

Responsibilities

• Serve 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.
• Participate in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; often requiring independent research and study.
• Develop high‑quality, production‑ready software using best‑practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Write 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.
• Produce complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintain a team culture of documenting everything.
• Test and ensure quality of all code that is developed in line with principles of test‑driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
• Participate in code reviews, provide technical guidance and mentor software engineers.
• Collaborate 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.
• Instrument infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
• Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an 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 developing and deploying applications on Azure or a similar cloud platform.
• 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.
• Core Engineering: Microservices architecture, Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, scalable batch and real‑time systems.
• Cloud & DevOps: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud‑native design.
• Claims Domain Expertise: Claims adjudication, coordination of benefits (COB) logic, EDI integrations, and high‑volume transaction processing.
• Architecture Leadership: System design, modernization from legacy to microservices, API governance, and cross‑team alignment.
• Reliability & Observability: Monitoring, logging, incident management, resiliency engineering, and performance optimization.
• Test Automation: API testing, test‑driven development (TDD), and automated regression frameworks for microservices.
• Data & Workflow Automation: Batch processing, workflow orchestration, and business intelligence integration.
• AI & Intelligent Automation: AI‑assisted development, AIOps, anomaly detection, machine learning integration via APIs, and developer productivity tools.
• Security & Compliance: Secure API design, vulnerability management, and business continuity planning.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong collaboration with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross‑functional technology teams; ability to translate technical solutions into business outcomes; effective participation in design discussions, sprint ceremonies, and enterprise initiatives.
• Leadership: Mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving innovation, and leading modernization initiatives.
• Proficiency in organizational processes as well as capability to assess and initiate change within such processes.
• Demonstrates an in‑depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application.
• Strong written and verbal communication 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.
• Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow.

Base Pay Information

Pay Grade 22. $92,500 – $200,400.

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 applicable federal, state or local laws, including 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Delta Dental Ins. is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a professional work environment free from discrimination and harassment. Individuals seeking employment at Delta Dental are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, disability, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category. Delta Dental is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Accordingly, we have adopted and maintain an Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, Harassment‑Free Work Environment Policy, and Respectful Workplace policies and will not tolerate violations of these policies.