Lead Software Engineer – CMS-HIOS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, maintain, and enhance backend services and frontend applications across various HIOS modules.

• Lead and mentor a team consisting of two to five engineers.

• Assist in project planning, execution, and delivery processes.

• Perform performance evaluations and offer coaching and career development guidance.

• Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and organizational leadership.

• Facilitate staffing, workload distribution, and resource planning.

• Promote team accountability and excellence in delivery.

• Identify and address delivery risks and challenges.

• Create new functionalities while ensuring the maintenance of existing enterprise applications.

• Diagnose, analyze, and resolve software defects across integrated applications.

• Refactor code to enhance maintainability, performance, and sustainability.

• Assist with annual plan year updates and the evolving requirements of CMS business.

• Develop and maintain Java applications utilizing the Spring Framework.

• Construct and utilize RESTful APIs, business logic, data access components, and batch processing features.

• Develop applications using Maven and adhere to enterprise development standards.

• Support PostgreSQL databases through application development, SQL optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Create and maintain user interfaces with React and Angular.js.

• Assist in JSP-based applications and incremental UI enhancements.

• Integrate frontend applications with secure backend services and enterprise authentication mechanisms.

• Maintain REST APIs, batch processes, secure file transfers, and enterprise integrations for CMS systems, HealthCare.gov, state marketplaces, insurance issuers, and external partners.

• Develop SQL queries, support reporting, scheduled data exports, and maintain PostgreSQL integrations with Talend and Liquibase.

• Support CMS Enterprise Portal authentication and authorization, IDM, MFA, role-based access, and centralized user provisioning.

• Engage in release planning, deployments, regression testing, production support, and continuous improvement.

• Develop and support applications hosted on AWS.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines.

• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, peer code reviews, technical documentation, and communication with stakeholders.

• Work alongside Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and other cross-functional team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a CMS Moderate Risk Public Trust clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 7 years of professional software development experience with Java, Spring Framework, REST APIs, and Maven.

• Experience in developing frontend applications using React, Angular, and TypeScript.

• Familiarity with JSP is considered a plus.

• Proficient in PostgreSQL databases, including SQL development and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Nexus.

• Experience in supporting enterprise application integrations, authentication, authorization, and production operations within an Agile environment.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, and communication abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Generous 401k matching program.

• Purpose-driven work that supports the public good.

• A calm company culture free from artificial urgency, facetime, or workaholism.

• A workplace focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.