Software Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield; Tuscaloosa (AL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a Software Engineer role in Alabama with a clear growth track and the autonomy to set your own schedule. You’ll tackle Angular optimization, Vue.js runbooks, GitLab CI feature flags, and MongoDB needs for Tuscaloosa clients, while ensuring uptime and code quality.

The team seeks curious engineers with at least 1 year of owning outcomes, capable of adapting as scope shifts in real time and collaborating with technology users in Tuscaloosa.

Qualifications

• AL work history or strong reasons you’ll thrive here anyway.
• Demonstrated calm when a Tuscaloosa, AL client changes scope mid-stream.
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly.
• 1+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Cut Angular cold-start times so Blue Cross Blue Shield functions wake before AL users notice
• Hand off Vue.js runbooks so the next on-call at Blue Cross Blue Shield sleeps better
• Wire up GitLab CI feature flags so Blue Cross Blue Shield can test on Tuscaloosa traffic risk-free
• Defend Blue Cross Blue Shield uptime through the 2 a.m. Tuscaloosa pages nobody volunteers for
• Sit with technology users in Tuscaloosa to learn what the MongoDB tool really needs
• Read the Vue.js stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis

Skills

1+ years owning outcomes

Empathy

Calm under scope change

AL work history

Tools

GitLab CI

Angular

Vue.js

MongoDB

Job description

We don't need a Software Engineer who knows everything about GitLab CI; we need one curious enough to find out what they don't. We offer $52,000 - $79,000, a clear growth track, and a team where your 1 years of experience genuinely move the needle.

Key Responsibilities

• Cut Angular cold-start times so Blue Cross Blue Shield functions wake before AL users notice
• Hand off Vue.js runbooks so the next on-call at Blue Cross Blue Shield sleeps better
• Wire up GitLab CI feature flags so Blue Cross Blue Shield can test on Tuscaloosa traffic risk-free
• Defend Blue Cross Blue Shield uptime through the 2 a.m. Tuscaloosa pages nobody volunteers for
• Sit with technology users in Tuscaloosa to learn what the MongoDB tool really needs
• Read the Vue.js stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis

What You'll Bring

• An AL work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• Demonstrated calm when a Tuscaloosa, AL client changes scope mid-stream
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• 1+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks

Recognized for our nimble work in technology, Blue Cross Blue Shield continues to grow its presence across AL. We hand new Software Engineer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.

Blue Cross Blue Shield offers $52,000 - $79,000 plus the autonomy to set your own schedule and the support to keep growing.

Our team checks new Software Engineer applications every single business day.