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Senior Software Engineer - Microservices

Delta Dental
Alpharetta, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jul 2026
💰 $200,400/yr($92,500/yr$200,400/yr)

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer (Microservices) is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable, secure, and performant microservices-based applications supporting enterprise platforms.  The role operates across the full SDLC and collaborates with cross-functional teams including Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, Application teams, performance test team and Platform.

  • Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
  • Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
  • Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
  • Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health
  • Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
  • Tests and ensures quality of all code that is developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
  • Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers
  • Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results
  • Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management
  • Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades
  • 4+ years of experience w/Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent technical field
  • MS is a plus
  • Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education or degree
  • Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure applications and products
  • Experience developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform
  • Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
  • Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
  • Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
  • Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
  • Core Engineering: Microservices architecture, Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, scalable batch and real-time systems
  • Cloud & DevOps: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud-native design
  • Claims Domain Expertise: Claims adjudication, coordination of benefits (COB) logic, EDI integrations, and high-volume transaction processing
  • Architecture Leadership: System design, modernization from legacy to microservices, API governance, and cross-team alignment
  • Reliability & Observability: Monitoring, logging, incident management, resiliency engineering, and performance optimization
  • Test Automation: API testing, test-driven development (TDD), and automated regression frameworks for microservices
  • Data & Workflow Automation: Batch processing, workflow orchestration, and business intelligence integration
  • AI & Intelligent Automation: AI-assisted development, AIOps, anomaly detection, machine learning integration via APIs, and developer productivity tools
  • Security & Compliance: Secure API design, vulnerability management, and business continuity planning
  • Communication & Collaboration: Strong collaboration with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams; ability to translate technical solutions into business outcomes; effective participation in design discussions, sprint ceremonies, and enterprise initiatives
  • Leadership: Mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving innovation, and leading modernization initiatives
  • Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
  • Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies
  • Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships wit

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