Senior Software Engineer

Highmark Health

Senior Software Engineer building scalable software applications at Highmark Health. Involved in the architectural view of solutions and technical execution of products.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeLouisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $102,700 - $164,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoFlaskGoGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaJavaScriptObjective-COpenShiftPostgresPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Building scalable software applications across all digital channels to serve customers.
Taking an enterprise-wide, architectural view of the solutions and the technical execution of products.
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.
Idea generation and exploring appropriate technical solutions to achieve product features.
Monitor technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
Participate in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints.
Communicate any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master.
Drive story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation).
Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field
5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems
5 years in at least one modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred)
5 years understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
5 years with one 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 in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
5 years translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
5 years of ability to produce code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
1 year of working with Machine Learning esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields
Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain robust applications using React for the frontend and Python with PostgreSQL/BigQuery for the backend
Strong proficiency in asynchronous processing and messaging: Hands-on experience with Celery and GCP Pub/Sub for building scalable and reliable distributed systems.
Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and deployment strategies: Experience with GitLab CI/CD for automating deployments across on-premise, OpenShift, and GCP cloud environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Flexible work hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythonJavaScriptData StructuresDesign PatternsRESTPostgreSQLBigQueryReactCelery

Soft Skills

CommunicationProblem SolvingCollaboration