Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Employer: Delta Dental Insurance Company

Location: 1130 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30009; Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

Salary Range: $152,131/yr - $154,200/yr

Responsibilities

• Build and support products that provide solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems.
• Participating in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software.
• Developing high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable, high-performance software solutions. Integrate Oracle ADF/React.js applications with other enterprise systems, APIs, and services.
• Driving the migration of existing legacy Oracle ADF applications to modern web technologies, including ReactJS for front-end and Spring Boot for back-end services.
• Design and implement new front-end interfaces using ReactJS, incorporating modern web development best practices, UI/UX design principles, and responsive design.
• Refactor, optimize, and migrate existing Oracle ADF business components, task flows, and logic into Spring Boot-based services.
• Develop RESTful web services and back-end APIs using Spring Boot to support the new ReactJS front-end. Integrate ReactJS applications with Spring Boot back-end services using RESTful APIs.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries, work with JPA/Hibernate, and integrate with relational databases Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
• Use Azure DevOps for continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring of applications in production. Implement cloud-native solutions, including using Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.
• Ensure security best practices are followed when deploying services to Azure, including API security, user authentication, and data encryption.
• Optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of both ReactJS and Spring Boot applications in the cloud environment.
• Work closely with the operations team to manage cloud infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure system availability.
• Set up and optimize Git Cloud Actions (e.g., GitHub Actions), automating deployment pipelines, testing, and other workflows. Integrate Git with cloud platform Azure to streamline development processes.
• Maintaining and enhance SOAP-based services, with an eye towards transitioning to RESTful services as needed. Ensure the transition from SOAP to REST preserves existing functionalities and meets new requirements for scalability, performance, and security.
• Design and implement API documentation (e.g., Swagger or OpenAPI) to ensure clarity and ease of use for other developers and external systems.
• Writing 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.
• Producing complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything.
• Testing and ensuring quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible.
• Participating in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers. Collaborating 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.
• Instrumenting infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
• Performing impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades.
• Assisting in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects.
• Supporting and collaborating with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
• Maintaining knowledge ensures competency and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Must live within reasonable commuting distance from HQ and able to appear in office as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science or related field with five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in software development or in the related role or job offered.
• Java, JSON, Hibernate, Spring, Axis-These for building robust backend systems and support enterprise applications.
• Front-End & Full-Stack Development using Angular or React or Node JS- Essential for modern web development and building responsive user interfaces. Expertise in building dynamic, responsive, and scalable web applications using front-end development technologies like Angular/React/Node.
• Kubernetes, AWS or Azure, Docker, EC2, RDS for cloud-native development, container orchestration, and scalable deployments.
• Web Services (Rest, Soap), Spring Boot, Swagger, OpenAPI to enable integration and communication between distributed systems. Build REST/SOAP services using Spring Boot, document APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI, ensuring clarity and ease of consumption for internal and external teams.
• Database (Oracle or MySQL or MS SQL) for data persistence and retrieval for any application. Design schemas, write queries, and optimize performance across databases depending on the application's needs.
• Git hub, SVN, Gitlab, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Splunk, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Jira, Confluence, & Grafana to support the full software development lifecycle.
• Agile-Scrum, SAFe-Agile methodologies to drive iterative development and team collaboration. Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, retros, planning) and follow SAFe practices for scaling agile across teams and aligning with business goals.
• Apache Tomcat & WebLogic to deploy and run enterprise Java applications. Configure and deploy applications on Tomcat for lightweight needs and WebLogic for more complex, enterprise-grade deployments.

Base Pay Information The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. Pay Grade 22. $152,131/yr - $154,200/yr

Additional Information

• Competitive base and incentive pay
• 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
• 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
• Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
• Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
• Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
• Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
• Employee discount program

Fair Chance Ordinances and Criminal Background Considerations This position requires that the applicant undergo a background check. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with any applicable federal, state or local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and/or New York Corrections Law Article 23-A. Important Work Authorization Information Please note, Delta Dental will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. #LI-Hybrid

About the Team

At Delta Dental, we're behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we've served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building fair programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for