Software Engineer

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Software Engineer to join its Provider Applications team. The role develops, enhances, maintains, and supports provider-facing applications and services across modern .NET Core applications, APIs, batch processing solutions, and legacy platforms. Responsibilities include designing and coding systems, troubleshooting integrations and production issues, supporting project teams, and mentoring less-experienced analysts and programmers.

Responsibilities:

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts
• May serve one or more project team roles, such as project lead, business systems analyst, or technical lead, for small to medium efforts or manage phases of medium to large efforts
• Maintains technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, utilities and networks needed to support work assignments
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems
• Regularly provides guidance and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers

Requirements:

• Experience developing enterprise applications using .NET Core
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience troubleshooting complex system integrations and supporting large-scale application environments
• Experience participating in production support and on-call rotations
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to partner closely with senior technical team members
• Candidates local to the Chattanooga and/or with a willingness to travel to our Chattanooga, TN headquarters occasionally strongly preferred (although this role is otherwise remote)
• Sponsorship is not available for this role
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested
• 1 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 3 years - Systems and programming experience required
• 1 year - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST
• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
• Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, and demonstrated success in leading large and complex projects
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and translate technical and/or or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members and/or business personnel
• Be organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks with exceptional work ethic
• Leadership skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers
• Healthcare industry experience
• Knowledge of API development, ETL/data movement processes, batch processing, and service-oriented architecture
• Experience with JavaScript, jQuery, and Entity Framework
• Experience developing and supporting GraphQL and REST APIs
• Exposure to legacy COBOL and AIX environments