[Remote] Software Engineer, Medicaid

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. For People is a team of skilled technologists improving government digital services for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations by modernizing software, systems, and platforms within government agencies. The Software Engineer will work primarily on the back end of a Medicaid Drug Program platform, developing Java and Spring Boot services, managing PostgreSQL data, modernizing drug utilization review tools, supporting automated testing, and troubleshooting production issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the services and interfaces behind the platform using Java and the Spring Boot framework
• Work with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, for efficient data storage, retrieval, and management
• Contribute to the next version of the program's drug utilization review tools
• Help lead the team's automated testing practice, including unit, integration, and performance tests
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in the production system
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code aligning with the team's coding standards, and offer constructive feedback through code review
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and quarterly planning across teams

Skills

• • 3+ years of professional software development experience
• • Strong Java programming ability, including working proficiency with the Spring Boot framework
• • Solid database design and data modeling skills, with experience creating and maintaining data models
• • Proven ability to read, understand, and safely change a large codebase you did not write
• • Experience with version control systems, such as Git, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• • Experience writing automated tests and working in Agile development environments
• You must perform all work physically within the United States at all times
• In addition, you must be a United States citizen and be able to pass a government-performed public trust background check
• • Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Angular. This won't be a core responsibility area, but the application is Angular-based, and occasionally flexing into the front-end is needed
• • Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure
• • Prior work on healthcare, Medicaid, or other public benefits systems

Benefits

• 100% remote work across the United States with no return-to-office requirement
• For People pays 100% of Gold-tier employee health insurance premiums
• Annual company profit sharing
• Positive work-life balance and healthy expectations

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