Software Engineer IV

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship
• Serve as a technical leader on the team, setting engineering best practices for code quality, system design, testing, and operational readiness.
• Coach and mentor less-experienced engineers, providing guidance through pairing, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
• Lead design sessions, review proposed solutions, and present designs to architecture and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Influence and refine team-level standards related to coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call readiness.
• Design, Architecture & Development
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient services supporting the Authorizations suite using modern architecture patterns such as distributed systems and microservices.
• Host, consume, and evolve RESTful APIs, ensuring they are secure, performant, and backward compatible.
• Develop well-structured, reusable, maintainable, and intentionally designed code that aligns with team and organizational standards.
• Analyze existing applications to identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, or reliability concerns, and guide improvement efforts.
• Write and optimize database queries and contribute to schema and table definition changes when needed.
• Translate business and technical requirements into high-quality implementations while identifying gaps or risks in requirements early.
• Observability, Monitoring & Reliability
• Champion observability best practices, including logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing, to ensure system health and operational transparency.
• Monitor application performance and reliability using appropriate tool

Benefits

Additional Information

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. Reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering, the Software Engineer IV will design, develop, and maintain payer customer implementations supporting our Authorizations suite. This role is expected to be approximately 80% back-end development and 20% front-end development, with a strong emphasis on technical leadership, system reliability, and operational excellence. This is a senior individual contributor role that serves as a technical leader and mentor, helping shape team standards, architectural decisions, and long-term platform stability. Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position. Location: Remote, US Why work on this team: We are looking for eager, curious, and technically strong engineers who want to influence both solutions and teammates. There is significant opportunity for hands-on problem solving, technical ownership, and on-the-job learning as you deepen your understanding of our healthcare-focused tech stack. This team directly impacts the prior authorization experience for millions of patients, helping streamline access to care. This role plays a critical part in coaching and mentoring less-experienced engineers, raising overall engineering quality and maturity across the team. You will help drive improvements in observability, reliability, and operational readiness for systems used in high-impact, high-availability healthcare workflows. Role qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience in Agile and/or iterative environments. 6+ years of experience leveraging the following languages and frameworks: Java SQL databases JavaScript RESTful APIs Web services AWS experience required, including deploying, operating, and monitoring production workloads. Experience with React is a plus. Experience with Vue is a plus. Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead, setting direction, and influencing engineering standards without direct people management responsibility.

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