Principal Software Engineer at Avalon Administrative Services LLC in Tampa, Florida

Job Description:

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Category: Full Time

Position Type: 1C

Requsition ID: 1010

Description:

About the Implementation Principal Software Engineer position:

The Principal Software Engineer I role bridges the gap between high-level architecture and team-level execution. This role is responsible for translating high-level architectural requirements into low-level designs and proof of concepts (POCs) while guiding team members in implementing them. This role is considered the technical lead of the team which provides technical mentorship for the development team, ensuring alignment with the architectural vision while enabling individual contributors to take ownership of the tasks, while helping to maintain a clean scalable codebase. This role is also a liaison between technical leadership, architects, and the team, communicating complex technical concepts clearly and helping advocate for team’s priorities. The ideal candidate will have strong technical leadership skills with a solid foundation in application development and design with the ability to create and maintain high-level documentation and diagrams.

This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel to the corporate office in Tampa, Florida is required.

Principal Software Engineer – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the overall technical direction by designing, diagramming, and documenting enterprise solutions while collaborating across teams to build scalable and robust systems.
• Leverages deep technical expertise to independently design and develop critical services, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Actively participates in code and solution reviews, identifying and mitigating potential issues and defects while driving continuous improvement.
• Advocates for the adoption of proven enterprise design patterns and promotes solution reuse to enhance efficiency and maintainability.
• Guides engineers on SDLC best practices, emerging technologies, and modern development techniques, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Plays a key role in the Architecture Review process, providing insights and recommendations to align solutions with business goals.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining a dedication to high quality.
• Embraces industry best practices like continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, TDD etc.
• Establishes and enforces SDLC procedures to ensure that all software products and services meet functional, architectural, security, performance, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Understands and aligns IT solutions with business objectives, particularly in health plan operations, and assists leadership in communicating and educating stakeholders on strategic priorities.

Principal Software Engineer – Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in application software design and development.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related discipline; or the equivalent years of relevant technical experience. Advanced degree desired.
• Experience developing applications using Drools/rules engines, Linux, SoapUI, Postman, Docker, AWS EC2, ECS/Fargate, AWS SQS, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, React/NextJS, Typescript, Node).
• Experience with MS SQL Server and T-SQL.
• Experience using standard middleware interface/integration architecture and techniques (SOA, Web services, SOAP / WSDL / XML, REST, SAML, APIs, Microservices).
• Experience using Draw.io, UML Diagramming tools, PlantUML
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Exhibits strong leadership soft skills
• History of working in an Agile software development environment.
• Proven success delivering and supporting high quality solutions on time.

Principal Software Engineer – Qualifications Preferred:

• Healthcare knowledge or experience preferred
• History of successfully leading software engineering teams to positive outcomes
• Strong focus on growing engineers to be the technology leaders of the future
• Experience working in an AWS or cloud-based environment
• Planning, developing and deploying high volume, mission-critical software applications in a healthcare environment.
• Knowledge or experience with HIPAA regulations and standards for security (PHI, IIHI), privacy and transactions.
• Modern front-end application development in React with Typescript, Next JS preferred.
• Experience working with front-end styling frameworks such as Material, Bootstrap, Tailwind, etc. Material preferred.
• Exposure to JSP and ability to troubleshoot legacy applications and code bases.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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