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Magellan Health · 7 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Magellan Health is a leading healthcare management company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer. This role involves serving as an expert technical resource, providing consultation on IT opportunities, and directing development tasks while mentoring staff on new technologies.

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Responsibilities

Develops guidelines for other software engineers that helps them build and implement code that is scalable, stable and secure
Acts as a hands-on software engineer who can write quality code, assists with problem solving, root cause analysis, trouble shooting and coaching
Understands big picture from a business standpoint within the context of the application
Writes technical blogs and be active in Open Source Community
Applies Design Thinking techniques on application design
Leads agile software development efforts as a Technical Leader
Coaches other software engineers on practices such as TDD, ATDD and pair programming
Understands advanced concepts of Containers, Micro-Services, Continuous Delivery and Continuous integration, and guide the team to setup a DevOps environment for the applications they build and support
Designs and develops highly scalable applications in AWS cloud using tools like Cloud Formation Templates, EC2, SWF, ELB, Lambda, S3, RDS/Dynamo DB and others
Reviews and takes actions based on application metrics, including but not limited to code quality, business metrics and performance metrics
Creates load and performance testing strategy and perform advanced performance tuning

Qualification

AWSDevOpsAgileMicro-ServicesContainersTDDATDDCloud Formation TemplatesTechnical LeadershipProblem SolvingCommunication Skills

Required

6+ years related experience including a minimum of 3+ years of designing, building and maintaining high quality, secure software in IT
Critical thinker
Demonstrated problem solving techniques
Strong verbal and written communication skills
A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered
Bachelor's, Bachelor's - Computer and Information Science

Benefits

Short-term incentives
A comprehensive benefits package
A broad range of health, life, voluntary and other benefits and perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing

Company

Magellan Health

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Magellan Health is a leader in managing the fastest growing, most complex areas of health.

H1B Sponsorship

Magellan Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (5)
2023 (1)
2022 (10)
2021 (7)
2020 (7)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$351M
Key Investors
Onex
2022-11-17Acquired
2004-01-06IPO
2004-01-05Private Equity· $101M

Leadership Team

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Caroline Carney
Chief Executive Officer
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Steven Pratt
Chief Medical Officer
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