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The Software Engineer – Microservices is a hybrid role combining hands-on microservices development and AI engineering, with shared ownership of build, deployment, production operations, and security remediation.
The ideal candidate is a highly adaptable engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, production-critical environment and has demonstrated measurable productivity gains by leveraging AI-assisted development and operations tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or other enterprise-approved AI tools). The candidate must have hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices architecture, SQL, and cloud technologies, along with a strong focus on engineering quality, automation, security, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities- Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
- Actively participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
- Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient microservices supporting consumer-facing applications
- Write high-quality, production-ready Java code using Spring Boot and RESTful API design principles
- Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD) and participate actively in peer code reviews
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools and GenAI capabilities throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, refactoring, documentation, and modernization
- Identify opportunities to apply AI agents and automation to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency
- Address security vulnerabilities, patching, upgrades, and hotfixes in a timely and compliant manner
- Instrument applications and infrastructure with monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing (e.g., Datadog)
- Partner with senior engineers and architects to evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine appropriate enterprise use cases
- Ensure AI-generated code meets organizational standards for security, performance, maintainability, testing, and compliance
- Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
- Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health
- Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
- Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
- 2+ years of experience w/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
- Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of education or degree
- Experience developing backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices architecture, and SQL
- Experience designing and developing secure application and products
- Experience with developing, configuring and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure or any other cloud platform
- Ability to identify key issues and details, and present understandable alternatives to both technical and non-technical individuals
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation to support the testing, installation, operations, deployment and maintenance of products
- Proven ability to effectively present data to facilitate understanding of findings
- Ability to solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem-solving skills for design, development and testing of systems
- Strong knowledge of prevailing technology trends, design patterns and ability to apply those as needed
- Ability to interpret and analyze technology heatmaps and subsequently develop plans to remediate hardware/software nearing End of Life/End of Support
- Competent at adhering to organizational processes and procedures including but not limited to Scrum and various design artifacts
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
- Life-long learner, process improver
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 21. $80,500 - $174,300
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field
- Additional experience may substitute for education or a degree
- Experience developing backend applications with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices architecture, and SQL
- Experience designing and developing secure applications and products
- Experience developing, configuring, and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure or another cloud platform
- Ability to identify key issues and present understandable alternatives to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation for testing, installation, operations, deployment, and maintenance
- Ability to present data effectively to facilitate understanding of findings
- Complex problem-solving skills for system design, development, and testing
- Strong knowledge of technology trends and design patterns, with the ability to apply them appropriately
- Ability to analyze technology heatmaps and develop remediation plans for hardware or software nearing end of life or support
- Ability to follow organizational processes, Scrum, and design artifacts
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
- Commitment to continuous learning and process improvement
Delta Dental Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Delta Dental Insurance Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Delta Dental Insurance Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, including a sizable automatic 401(k) contribution plus additional matching. This boosts overall total-rewards value even when base pay is viewed as only mid-market in some areas.
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Affordable Benefits — Core coverage is framed as unusually low-cost to employees, including fully employer-paid dental and vision and low employee contribution medical options. This creates meaningful take-home value beyond cash compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, including broad PTO/holidays and additional paid leave features such as parental leave. These policies increase perceived rewards and help balance workload demands.
Delta Dental Insurance Company Insights
What We Do
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people. Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
