Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack - Python/React/Cloud)

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description : 

JOB SUMMARY

Highmark is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Engineer to serve as an integral member of our agile software engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will drive the development, support, and technical execution of scalable software applications across all digital channels. We are looking for a hands-on leader who can provide technical leadership and mentorship while contributing to strategic technical decisions, architecture planning, and technology roadmaps from an enterprise-wide perspective.

As a Lead Engineer, you will oversee the ongoing support of critical applications, lead the resolution of complex technical issues, streamline project delivery, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. You will be instrumental in enforcing coding standards and will serve as a primary point of contact for stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions that meet the needs of our clients and product roadmaps.

Preferred Qualifications:

We are looking for a candidate whose most recent professional experience aligns with a lead engineering role and demonstrates the following:

• Proven experience in a lead engineering role, demonstrating technical leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Strong proficiency in backend development using Python, Django, Flask, and FastAPI.
• Experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Gitlab.
• Frontend development expertise using ReactJS, NextJS, JestJS, and Axios.
• Experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus.
• Experience with BigQuery is a plus.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• The job is responsible for designing and creating engineering specifications for software applications and programs.

• Responsible for designing & writing code that adheres to coding standards. Performs code reviews.

• Responsible for idea generation, exploring and implementing appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features, as well as monitoring technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• A part of an agile work team and responsible for participating in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints in the development through final execution of software applications/programs. Communicates any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master in a timely manner.
• Drives story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation). Creates Tasks for their stories in applicable software (ex: RTC or Jira), and updates status and assignment accordingly
• Work with principal engineers to design & implement complex technical solutions
• Mentor other software engineers as needed
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field  

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 7 years of proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems

To Include

• 5 years in at least two modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred), and experience with at least three of the following: React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• 5 years of understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
• 5 years with two or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go
• 5 years of defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities, and ability to produce code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable