Software Engineer IV

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.

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.

What you will be doing:

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 tools, proactively identifying trends and potential failure points before they impact customers.
• Partner with the team to define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and operational dashboards where applicable.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, helping drive systemic improvements rather than one-off fixes.

Quality, Testing & CI/CD

• Ensure software quality through unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and code reviews.
• Create, advise on, and maintain integration tests across the prior authorization suite to ensure system stability and reduce regression risk.
• Leverage and improve CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jira, and AWS tooling to promote fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments.
• Promote testability, automation, and quality-first thinking across the development lifecycle.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Actively participate in pair programming, design discussions, and technical mentoring sessions.
• Collaborate closely with product, QA, and operations partners to deliver reliable, well-observed solutions.
• Write and maintain moderate to complex technical documentation, including design decisions, operational runbooks, and system behavior explanations.
• Evaluate existing and emerging tooling and make data-driven recommendations to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and observability.

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified "Great Place to Work", a "Best Workplaces for Technology Companies", a "Best Workplaces for Women" and a "Best Workplaces for Millennials"!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. "AvaiLadies", "Beyond Black", "HOLA", "Availity Pride", "VetAvaility" a Young Professionals Group and "She Can Code IT" a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You're at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Manager resume review
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager video interview
• Technical assessment
• Technical video interview
• Senior Leadership video interview

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Video Camera Usage:

Availity fosters a collaborative and open culture where communication and engagement are central to our success. As a remote first company, we are also camera-first and provide all associates with camera/video capability to simulate the office environment. If you are not able to use your camera for all virtual meetings, you should not apply for this role.

Having cameras on helps create a more connected, interactive, and productive environment, allowing teams to communicate more effectively and build stronger working relationships. The usage of cameras also enhances security and protects sensitive company information. Video participation is required to ensure that only authorized personnel are present in meetings and to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, preventing social engineering, or the sharing of confidential information with non-participants.

Disclaimers:

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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