Staff Software Engineer, Identity

Company: eHealth
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: May 23, 2020

Job Description:

Get your career started at eHealtheHealthInsurance has many exciting career opportunities in a number of locations, across various functions. Come join us today!Staff Software Engineer - IdentityExcited to grow your career? Our people make all the difference in our success.

eHealth is America's first and largest private online marketplace for health insurance, which allows individuals, families and small businesses to compare insurance options and enroll in coverage. Our mission is to help everyone find affordable healthcare coverage through our website, consumer advocacy, and personalized customer assistance. The company has continued to evolve into a marketplace, unique in its scale in the healthcare space. The increasing confidence that analysts and shareholders are demonstrating by our record share price is a testimony to our position in the healthcare market. Building a high-performance culture is critical for eHealth to continue on our path of rapid growth and to win with our customers.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team at eHealth. The role will work from our offices at Santa Clara Square. You have proven industry experience in the design of distributed software systems following a microservices architecture. You are solution-centric, results-oriented, and experienced in Agile methodology. You want to "build what's right, not what's easy." You will work with other developers in a collaborative environment to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects. You are ambitious, talented, and driven to make the team and project successful.

This role will help design and build the company's next-generation identity solutions. The company is pivoting from lead generation to knowing our customers well enough to personalize their experience. This requires a complete revamp of our concepts, systems and solutions around customers, agents, brokers, and partners. The team will build the microservice based components at the heart of this transformation. The scope of the solution includes authentication and authorization, customer profiles, third-party data integrations, real-time behavioral data collection, and other components required to enable a personalized customer experience.

Job Responsibilities:

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• Design and implement microservice applications including API design, business logic, data/schema modeling, security, and DevOps
  
• Lead distributed system design and implementation in cross-functional project teams
  
• Document architecture, designs and API specifications, best practices & blueprints
  
• Enable and facilitate problem diagnosis and resolution in technical and functional areas
  
• Encourage change, particularly on the side of engineering best practices and developer experience
  
• Write high-quality unit-tested code that is consistent with our standards, creating new standards as necessary
  
• Advance a quality-first mindset by driving test automation
  
• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships with infrastructure and operations teams, cross-functional departments and end users to ensure highest level of productivity and effectiveness
  
• Communicate and collaborate with technical and non-technical personnel to understand and define requirements, gather and analyze data, and recommend solutions
  
• Review the work of other engineers in a collegial fashion to promote growth, and to improve quality and engineering practices
  
• Identify and lead others to trends and opportunities that drive operational improvements
  
  
  Requirements:
  
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  • 8 to 11 years of professional cloud-based application / software engineering experience
    
  • Experience as a lead engineer working in a scrum team
    
  • Technical skills: Java programming, Algorithmic thinking, Data structures , Spring frameworks, Springboot, APIs, system architecture, microservices and ecommerce platform experience
    
  • Experience leading multiple projects of various sizes concurrently
    
  • Experience delivering solutions on AWS or other cloud infrastructures
    
  • Knowledge of API frameworks, Elasticsearch, Data processing systems
    
  • Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills
    
  • Agile Scrum experience and enjoy working in an agile development environment
    
  • Enjoy working in an innovative, fast pace, team oriented, and rewarding environment
    
  • Passion for coding, mentoring and leading transformative initiatives
    
    
    Preferred:
    
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    • Full stack working experience and Vue.JS or React development exercise is plus
      
    • Ecommerce experience
      
    • AWS experience is preferred
      
    • CI/CD, release management, system integration, Docker based deployment
      
      
      eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.
      
      eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.
      
      If you are interested in applying for employment with eHealth and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position contact us at: accommodations@ehealthinsurance.com.

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