Sr Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on Wellmarks AI & Analytics Platform team you will play a pivotal role in building the companys foundational AI infrastructure and custom engineered solutions. This team is responsible for designing developing and operationalizing secure scalable and compliant AI platforms including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbots and agentic agent solutions. You will help design and implement reusable frameworks SDKs and backend services on AWS while collaborating closely with engineers product managers QA and stakeholders. This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to mentor innovate and shape Wellmarks enterprise AI capabilities from the ground up. 

Qualifications :

Preferred: 

• Strong engineering discipline with hands-on experience building backend services cloud infrastructure and enterprise-grade APIs/microservices (RESTful and event-driven) using AWS technologies (CDK Lambda Step Functions Bedrock S3 SNS SQS EventBridge DynamoDB MongoDB Aurora/Postgres EC2/ECS CloudWatch Glue AWS Batch API Gateway). 
• Deep expertise in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for infrastructure-as-code including authoring testing and maintaining reusable constructs and patterns. 
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies at unit integration and end-to-end levels and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Enterprise Actions or similar tools. 
• Demonstrated experience building secure compliant solutions in regulated environments (HIPAA SOC2 etc.) including embedding security best practices into API and backend service design (authentication authorization data protection). 
• Experience engineering AI/ML platforms frameworks or reusable components (RAG chatbots agentic agents etc.). 
• Familiarity with AI Ops practices for monitoring benchmarking and ensuring compliance of AI solutions. 
• Exposure to building and supporting real-time data pipelines or streaming integrations. 
• AWS certifications (Practitioner Solutions Architect) are a plus. 
• Prior experience in health insurance healthcare or other regulated industries. 
• Experience participating in POCs hackathons or demos with stakeholders. 
• Strong innovation mindset and ability to drive process improvements. 
• Demonstrated ability to approach complex technical challenges with creativity and resourcefulness leveraging strong problem-solving skills. 
• Experience working within an Agile team environment. 
• Ability or interest in mentoring/coaching others. 

Required: 

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science MIS or related field of study and at least 2 years of software development experience (ex. Angular NodeJS TypeScript C .NET Java SQL) OR 6 years of related and applicable experience. 
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills. Accuracy and high attention to detail. Previous experience troubleshooting and developing creative technical solutions. Ability to provide innovative solutions to complex issues. 
• Demonstrated experience in software development lifecycle methodologies. 
• Big picture thinker with the ability to translate the value of the WaaS strategy to company strategy when making design and development decisions. 
• Demonstrated strong ability to gather information perform necessary research needed for root cause analysis problem definition and formulation recommend solution implementation verification and ongoing optimization using data to support recommendations and best practices. 
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties. Ability to communicate key information in a timely manner to the appropriate stakeholder audience with the ability to adjust communication style that will best suit the audience. 
• Ability to communicate with and coach/mentor team members while setting an example in maintaining a positive attitude staying calm under pressure being approachable and respectful and taking responsibility for failures. 
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment with changing priorities. Excellent organizational skills. Strong time management skills with the ability to set and meet established timeframes with little direction while assuring data and information integrity. 
• Eagerness to learn and stay current on industry trends and have a continuous learning mindset.  
• Ability to collaborate and work as a team to accomplish goals and/or solve problems. Ability to earn trust and respect from peers leadership and stakeholders. Ability to learn by actively listening and applying coaching feedback. 
• Ability to lead support and work within a diverse development team model including global staffing crowd sourcing etc. 

Additional Information :

a. Provide high-level analysis and implementation of innovative efficient and cost-effective business solutions for multiple platforms while utilizing information technology business and industry trends. 

b. Guide other engineers in the design development code testing debugging and resolution of issues that utilize emerging technology and meet and exceed Wellmarks evolving business needs. 

c. Provide advanced support in the gathering of information necessary research needed for root cause analysis problem definition and formulation solution implementation verification and ongoing optimization. Ensure analysis of defects to find root cause and guide others in the identification of potential improvement opportunities.  

d. Mentor guide and problem-solve with other technology areas in the development and implementation of solutions including how to use new or enhanced software/applications. 

e. Use data and cost measures (AWS infrastructure labor etc.) to influence timely decisions build consensus and take actions to successfully deliver objectives and support benefit realization. Identify known issues impacts to initiatives or production outcomes if not resolved and escalate as necessary.  

f. Build relationships with Wellmark leaders and acts as consultant on business status issues process improvements and technology enhancements or capabilities. 

g. Participate in proposals estimates and proof-of-concept activities as needed. 

h. Maintain awareness of industrys best practices and standards and proactively participate in industry/knowledge reference groups relative to role. 

i. Other duties as assigned. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Eligible: You will have the flexibility to work where you are most productive. This position is eligible to work fully remote. Depending on your location you may still have the option to come into a Wellmark office if you wish to. Your leader may ask you to come into the office occasionally for specific meetings or other moments that matter as well.  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time