Overview:   The Staff Software Development Engineer L5 works with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, has the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design distributed systems that are resilient and secure at scale from inception;
• Raise the engineering bar on scale, resiliency, security fundamentals via technical leadership and engineering excellence;
• Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique services and solutions;  
• Investigate, design, and implement best-in-industry, innovative technologies that will expand Inovalon’s infrastructure through robust, scalable, adrenaline-fueled solutions;  
• Champion the enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy;  
• Be the expert in service reliability and sustainability;  
• Develop and execute designs for complex systems backed by excellence, confidence, and thorough engineering analysis;  
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage the server fleet and complex computing systems to drive automation, improvement, and performance;
• Take ownership of ensuring detailed design, analysis, testing, and optimization;
• Set direction/goals for the team regarding project impact, product quality and engineering efficiency;
• Lead major initiatives, projects, teams, rollouts and phased releases;
• Provide mentorship onboarding new team members and enabling successful ramp up;
• Collaborate with other engineers, services across Inovalon, and external customers to understand requirements, have tight feedback loop that is data driven;
• Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience of related professional experience, prior software engineering experience preferred.
• 2+ years’ experience with leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new or existing services/systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Experience working with C#, .NET
• Experience working with front-end Programming languages (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular or ReactJS, JQuery)
• Strong knowledge of SQL, SQL Stored Procedures and RBMS
• Experience working with managed services in public cloud like GCP, AWS or Azure
• Experience in application development with Net Core 3.1+ MVC will be a plus.
• Familiarity with Containers and Kubernetes will be a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force. 
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.