Senior Software Engineer — Scalable Systems Architect

Highmark Health; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen seeks a senior software engineer to join an agile team responsible for building scalable software applications across digital channels. You’ll own architectural decisions and drive execution using the best-suited tech stack, including cloud services and modern patterns.

You will participate in all phases from idea generation and design to development and deployment, with emphasis on quality, performance, and maintainability. Prior experience with Claude Code or Google Gemini is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field.
• 5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in scalable, highly available systems.
• 5 years in at least one modern programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred) and experience with two of React, Angular, NodeJS, NoSQL, HTML5, CSS, GCP or AWS.
• 5 years of understanding RESTful web services (REST/HTTPS/JSON).
• 5 years with multiple general-purpose languages (Java, Python, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Go).
• 5 years defining system architectures and evaluating trade-offs for short-term execution and long-term capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and write engineering specifications for software applications and programs; write code that adheres to standards and conduct reviews.
• Generate and explore technical solutions to achieve product features while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• Be part of an agile team and participate in all scrum ceremonies; assist in sprint planning and complete sprints through to deployment; report blockers to the Scrum Master.
• Drive story creation (DoD, acceptance criteria, estimation); create tasks in RTC or Jira and manage status and assignments.
• Monitor progress against production schedule and provide updates; report issues to lead developers.
• Mentor junior and intermediate software engineers as needed.
• Handle other duties as assigned.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Scrum

Mentoring

Software Architecture

Cloud Platforms

Java

Python

JavaScript

REST/JSON

Code Reviews

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/CE

Master's Degree preferred

Tools

React

Angular

NodeJS

NoSQL

HTML5

CSS

GCP

AWS

Job description

enGen seeks a senior software engineer to join an agile team responsible for building scalable software applications across digital channels. You’ll own architectural decisions and drive execution using the best-suited tech stack, including cloud services and modern patterns.

You will participate in all phases from idea generation and design to development and deployment, with emphasis on quality, performance, and maintainability. Prior experience with Claude Code or Google Gemini is a plus.