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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Java Services Developer - IT Applications Engineer 4

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum three years of experience working on projects involving implementation of solutions using development life cycles such as the software development life cycle.
  • Minimum one year in a technical leadership role, with or without direct reports.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or a related field, plus a minimum of six years of software development or related-field experience; equivalent additional work experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
  • Experience with Quarkus, Spring Boot, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub Actions, Apigee, OAuth security, certificates, Cosmos, and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Experience with shift-left and mutation testing strategies, including Qtest, Karate, or SonarQube.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions in partnership with business analysts and other team members.
  • Support business-specific projects by applying subject-area expertise, helping develop work plans, ensuring procedures and policies are followed, coordinating and assigning resources, collaborating on business decisions, solving problems, escalating issues or risks, and identifying improvement opportunities.
  • Use DevOps and Waterfall and Agile practices to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on-premise and cloud-based solutions.
  • Recommend technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
  • Identify interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions needed to support technical solutions.
  • Lead systems incident support and troubleshoot complex and non-complex issues.
  • Support component integration testing and user acceptance testing through triage, test-team meetings, quality-control updates, fixes, unit testing, test-coverage guidance, and 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.
  • Incorporate architectural designs when identifying interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions for technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with architects and software consultants to convert functional specifications into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
  • Implement and provide post-implementation triage and support for business software by programming or configuring enhancements to new or packaged systems and applications.
  • Review and revise technical specifications and documentation.
  • Develop and execute unit tests to identify application errors and ensure solutions meet functional specifications.
  • Write technical specifications and documentation.
  • Apply industry best practices, strategies, and architectures when developing new and existing software solutions.
  • Partner with IT teams and vendors to ensure code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.
  • Lead, mentor, and train technical resources developing software applications.
  • Develop, configure, or modify basic to moderately complex integrated business or enterprise application solutions in varied 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 knowledge of database concepts, object and data modeling techniques and design principles, and database architectures, software, and facilities; analyze data requirements to establish, modify, or maintain data models; evaluate, demonstrate, install, and commission selected products.
  • Take responsibility for the accessibility, retrievability, and security of assigned 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.
  • Promote learning by sharing information, resources, advice, and expertise; build cross-functional relationships; provide technical explanations and feedback; support collaboration; and adapt to changing demands and feedback.

Desired Qualifications

  • One year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership, such as director level or above.
  • 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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