Staff Software Engineer Sr.

Elevance Health (Anthem); Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health in Atlanta, GA seeks a Staff Software Engineer Sr to lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of enterprise platforms, partnering with product and strategy teams.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture, and ensure quality through testing and production readiness, with a hybrid schedule requiring in-office presence 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of related experience including multi-platform, multi-dimensional work and collaboration with business/technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end system architecture, technical design, and implementation across enterprise platforms.
• Mentor engineers, provide advanced troubleshooting and guidance.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product, and strategy teams to translate problems into scalable solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain front-end and back-end applications and cloud-native services.
• Ensure comprehensive testing and successful production deployment.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Node.js

Git

GCP

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Databases

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Git

GCP

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Position Title

Staff Software Engineer Sr.

Anticipated End Date

2026-09-18

Job Title

Engineer Lead (Staff Software Engineer Sr)

Team

Strategic Claims Pricing and Reimbursement Teams

Location

Atlanta, GA

Hybrid Schedule

Hybrid 2: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week at the Atlanta, GA office, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Role Overview

The Engineer Lead is responsible for end-to-end design, development, delivery, and ongoing support of enterprise-wide technology platforms. This role combines deep technical leadership with strong partnership across business, product, and strategy teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

How you will make an impact

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Lead vendor technical evaluations and integration efforts where applicable.
• Mentor engineers and provide advanced troubleshooting and technical guidance.
• Lead end-to-end system architecture, technical design, and implementation across enterprise platforms.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• Drive improvements in stability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of business-critical systems. May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Perform and lead code reviews, design reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product, and strategy teams to deeply understand customer problems and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain front-end and back-end applications and cloud-native services.
• Lead end-to-end system architecture, technical design, and implementation across enterprise platforms.
• Ensure comprehensive unit, integration, and system testing; oversee successful production implementation.
• Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
• Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
• Own the technical delivery lifecycle from design through deployment and production support.
• Own system monitoring, operational readiness, and on‑call coordination.

Minimum Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi platform, and multi-dimensional experience required, as well as experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences

• Experience mentoring others and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred.
• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Strong backend or full‑stack engineering background, with hands‑on proficiency in Python.
• Hands on proficiency JavaScript/TypeScript, and familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React and Node.js.
• Experience with modern backend development stack including: Git, GCP and/or AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, Relational and non‑relational databases, Monitoring and alerting tools.
• Experience delivering integration solutions in healthcare environments.
• Strong understanding of healthcare data standards and security requirements (HIPAA, HL7, FHIR).
• Leadership experience.
• Experience building and operating highly available, cloud‑native system and driving architectural modernization initiatives.
• Proficiency with modern AI‑assisted / agentic development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Job Level

Non‑Management Exempt

Job Family

IFT > Engineering/Dev

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities - and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all level