Mobile Engineer, Consultant

The Digital Platform team builds and supports the core technologies that power Stellarus products. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Applications, you will design, develop, and deploy secure, scalable mobile and cloud-based solutions. You will leverage AI, automation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices to deliver high-quality applications, improve engineering efficiency, and enhance operational reliability. This role requires a hands-on engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, champions code quality and continuous improvement, and applies modern technology trends to drive innovation and business value. 

​​Your Work

​In this role, you will:​

• With an Artificial Intelligence (AI) forward approach, design, develop, and deliver mobile applications and cloud-native solutions using modern frameworks, technical specifications, and architecture standards.
• Develop efficient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions by leveraging reusable components, platform capabilities, automation, and engineering best practices.  
• Drive operational excellence through incident management, AI-enabled process automation, smooth deployments, and ongoing support of technology products and platform features.  
• Enhance application reliability, scalability, and performance through CI/CD practices, cloud monitoring, configuration management, and proactive issue resolution.
• Coordinate support and integration activities across multiple application platforms and business processes, ensuring seamless operation within a cloud environment.  
• Operate with a high degree of independence while applying knowledge of IT, cloud technologies, and healthcare industry trends to drive continuous improvement and innovation. 

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in enterprise and mobile application development, support, and cloud-based solution delivery.
• Multiple years' experience building and deploying mobile applications using React Native is required.  At least one year experience with native iOS and/or Android development is required.  The ideal candidate’s experience will be on critical mobile applications with large user base (hundreds of thousands to millions of users).    
• Advanced hands-on experience designing, coding, integrating, securing, and deploying mobile applications and platform capabilities, including REST APIs, authentication, secure storage, performance optimization, and mobile security best practices.
• Experience using AI-enabled development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Rovo, Claude, or similar technologies to accelerate software delivery; leveraging AI within CI/CD pipelines is highly preferred.
• Strong scripting, automation, and DevSecOps experience using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices automate builds, testing, deployments, and cloud operations.  
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, service-oriented architecture, enterprise integrations, observability practices, and cloud-native technologies, preferably within Microsoft Azure environments.  
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions, evaluate risks and trade-offs, collaborate across stakeholders and vendors, lead engineering best practices, and communicate complex technical solutions effectively; healthcare industry experience is preferred. 

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About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.    
 
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company. 

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.   

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values: 

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.