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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Information Technology Applications Engineer 4 - Multiple Teams

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGreensboro, NC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least three years of experience working on projects involving implementation of solutions using development life cycles such as the software development life cycle.
  • At least one year in a technical leadership role, with or without direct reports.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field, and at least six years of experience in software development or a related field; additional equivalent work experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
  • Hands-on expertise in Java, microservices, GitHub Actions, Quarkus, the Karate framework, and cloud deployment on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Proven experience securing backend services, tuning performance at scale, and integrating with more than 10 backend services in a distributed microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business requirements and functional specifications into software solutions, and contribute to the technical direction for integrated business and enterprise application solutions.
  • Leverage DevOps, Waterfall, and Agile practices to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
  • Recommend technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
  • Translate business requirements and functional specifications into program designs, code modules, application systems, and software solutions in partnership with business analysts and other team members.
  • Identify interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions needed to support technical solutions and incorporate architectural designs.
  • Lead systems incident support and troubleshoot complex and non-complex issues.
  • Support component integration testing and user acceptance testing by providing triage, attending test team meetings, keeping quality control up to date, performing fixes and unit testing, advising testing teams on test coverage, and supporting documentation.
  • Build and maintain relationships with internal customers and third-party vendors to align and support project stakeholders.
  • Review and validate technical specifications and documentation; revise technical specifications and write technical documentation.
  • Collaborate with architects and software consultants to turn functional specifications into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
  • Implement and provide post-implementation triage and support for business software solutions by programming or configuring enhancements to new or packaged systems and applications.
  • Develop and execute unit tests to identify application errors and verify that software meets functional specifications.
  • Ensure software solutions follow industry best practices, strategies, and architectures; partner with IT teams and vendors to ensure code follows company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.
  • Lead, mentor, and train technical resources in software application development.
  • Develop, configure, or modify integrated business and enterprise application solutions across computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications.
  • Participate in and coach others through software development lifecycle phases, applying and sharing company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
  • Assist with project estimation throughout the project life cycle.
  • Maintain specialist knowledge of database concepts, object and data modeling techniques, design principles, database architectures, software, and facilities; analyze data requirements to establish, modify, or maintain object and data models; evaluate potential solutions and demonstrate, install, and commission selected products.
  • Take responsibility for the accessibility, retrievability, and security of specified information; advise on transforming information between formats or media; maintain and implement information-handling procedures; support information availability, integrity, and searchability through formal data structures and protection measures; and manipulate information-service data to meet specific needs.
  • Lead an offshore team of four and own the design and deployment of existing and new APIs on Azure.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least one year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership, such as Director level and above.
  • At least three years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high-level design for complex solutions.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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