Software Engineer IV

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change. At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission. We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding. Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem. The Software Engineer IV will provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, and operation of Availity’s data platform processes and services. This role is responsible for building and operating the data processes that support reliable, secure, and scalable data ingestion, storage, processing, and access across the organization, while owning a member-facing membership application end to end. As a leading member of the team, this engineer will drive architecture and design decisions, translate business and platform requirements into technical designs, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers through disciplined execution. This individual partners closely with product, application engineering, information management, and analytics teams to ensure the platform and the membership application meet current and future business needs, while keeping a keen eye on overall performance, reliability, and data integrity. Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position. Location: Remote, US Role qualifications: 6+ years of progressive work experience developing software products in an Agile and/or iterative development environment. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Information Management. Master’s degree preferred but not required. Proven commitment to working in a senior engineer role, including mentoring and design guidance. Direct experience with data modeling and data architecture design, with a solid understanding of database technology including SQL and NoSQL databases. Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines and data processes capable of handling large volumes of data in a stable and observable manner. Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and web services for both internal and external use. Proficiency with the following languages & frameworks: Scala Python (including NumPy, Pandas, and related data libraries) SQL databases Scripting languages such as SQL, HTML, JavaScript, or Shell A data processing framework such as Spark, Flink, or similar AWS experience or equivalent cloud experience. Experience with automated unit testing and acceptance testing frameworks. Working experience with source code version control (preferably Git and GitHub/GitLab). Working knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines, and practicing Test Driven Development. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) is a plus. Experience with Terraform is a plus. Knowledge of the healthcare industry is a plus. What will set you apart: Healthcare industry experience, particularly with membership, eligibility, or benefits data. Experience owning and evolving core data or platform infrastructure at scale. Experience improving engineering productivity through standards, tooling, and automation. Background in reliability, performance optimization, or large-scale distributed systems. Adherence to engineering best practices. What you will be doing: Designing and developing scalable, maintainable, data-driven systems and data processes that demonstrate best practices. Owning a membership application end to end — from detailed design, documentation, and development through unit testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Building and maintaining data pipelines and processes capable of handling large volumes of data in a stable and observable manner. Improving the speed, efficiency, and scalability of the continuous integration environment, automating wherever possible using Python, SQL, RESTful APIs, and other frameworks. Applying modern software architecture patterns (distributed systems, microservices, etc.) to build well-structured, reusable, maintainable, and intentionally designed code. Consulting on the design and development of databases, writing database queries and required table definition modifications. Leveraging CI/CD principles using Git, Jira, and AWS. Creating standards for and documenting the systems you help build. Reviewing code written by other team members and collaborating with software and data engineers in the design and code review process. Coaching and mentoring junior engineers and providing design guidance across the team. Partnering with all stakeholders to determine technical feasibility, estimate work efforts, and identify potential slippage or inter-team dependencies. Innovating and sharing ideas to improve products and processes, big and small. Availity culture and benefits: Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”! Culture