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Staff Software Engineer Sr.

Elevance Health
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 May 2026

About the role

Anticipated End Date:

2026-05-29

Position Title:

Staff Software Engineer Sr.

Job Description:

Engineer Lead (Saff Software Engineer Sr)

Strategic Claims Pricing and Reimbursement Teams

Location: Atlanta, GA

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.

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, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level 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 expereince.
  • Experience building and operating highly available, cloud-native system and driving architectural modernization initiatives.
  • Proficiency with modern AI-assist

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