JOB DESCRIPTION

We (Digital Member Experience team) are responsible for making Delta Dental of California's new Member Self Service and Provider Directory search experience delightful. We are looking for an Expert Software Engineer with impressive technical skills and excellent communication and collaboration skills to help us build and maintain our next generation Digital Experiences. Along with writing awesome code, you will be responsible for architecting, designing and building highly scalable rich consumer facing applications. You will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams of product managers, architects, software engineers, test automation engineers and DevOps in an Agile setup.

Be part of an engineering team that builds and supports amazing customer-facing products that will drive the next generation of Delta Dental Digital Experience!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
• Lead teams that develop high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, resilient, and secure.
• Champion writing 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.
• Produce complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and create a team culture of creating/maintaining useful documentation.
• Drive code-reviews, provide technical guidance and mentor software engineers.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, QA and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results
• Scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders
• Foresee and assess impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades
• Assist in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects
• Support and collaborate with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases
• Maintain knowledge, ensure competency and compliance with policies and procedures, to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• 7+ years professional experience with BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing secure consumer-facing responsive, accessible user experiences and interfaces for web applications.
• Expert level knowledge of JavaScript programming.
• Expert level knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Responsive web design, Accessibility (WCAG 2.0 AA)
• Experience with all phases of software development. You have been there and done it, multiple times
• 2+ years of extensive experience in CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less.
• 2+ years of experience building responsive Single Page Web Applications.
• 2+ years of extensive experience building production application with Node.js
• 2+ years of experience working with popular JavaScript tools and Frameworks (like Gulp/Webpack, ejs/handlebar, Angular.js, or React/Redux or Ember). ReactJS is highly preferred.
• Advocate, advise, and implement - user-centered design, mobile first methodology, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, accessibility, SEO, responsive design, and website performance.
• Proficient with writing unit test case using any of the testing framework like Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine etc.
• Experience with Linux environment & container technology such as docker.
• Experience with Cloud (like Azure, AWS, GCP), Azure preferred.
• Proficiency with Chrome and/or other browser Developer Tools.
• Proficiency with Git/Github or other distributed version control systems.
• Experience with Scrum, Agile Process
• Good understanding of design principles to build a scalable application.

Nice to have:

• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience with Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with logging tools like Splunk or ELK.
• Experience with distributed cache like Redis.

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. $105,000 - $226,100

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Rewards to make you smile! We don't just want to make our customers happy - we want to give our employees a reason to smile, too. Delta Dental's comprehensive benefits package includes:

• Generous paid time off plus 12 holidays and your birthday off!
• Low-cost premium medical insurance options
• 100% paid dental and vision insurance
• Generous 401(k) matching and flat contribution
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities, including 16 paid volunteer hours annually
• Employee LiveWell program, focusing on overall employee well-being
• Fertility and diabetes benefits
• Employee discount program: AT&T/Verizon, entertainment, travel, and more!
• Culture of learning: career development and tuition reimbursement
• Career growth: we love promoting from within

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

At Delta Dental, our success is only as strong as the people who execute it! We take enormous pride in being the nation's most recognized and widely-used provider of dental insurance - and we've come this far by living our core values of innovation, excellence, service and trust. Our vision is to motivate and empower every employee so that we're all inspired to take exceptional care of our customers, providers and ourselves. We believe in integrity, accountability, collaboration, and giving every employee equitable opportunity for their voice to be heard and development to be fostered.

If you're excited about the prospect of transforming the future of health care and growing in your career, join our smile revolution!

To see some of the smiling faces behind Delta Dental and to learn more about what our values and culture look like in action, connect with us on social media: Delta Dental Ins. on Facebook and Instagram, #LifeatDDins on Facebook and Instagram, Delta Dental Ins. on Twitter and Delta Dental Ins. on LinkedIn.

We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation's largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.

Delta Dental is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender or identity expression, age, disability, marital status, medical status, veteran status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. 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.

Unfortunately, our Delta Dental Enterprise is unable to hire individuals residing in Alaska, North Dakota, Nebraska, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Puerto Rico or other US Territories at this time.

Proof of eligibility to work in the United States must be provided if selected for hire.

Delta Dental* has enacted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to protect all employees and the communities we serve due to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, we require all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Are you able to comply with our policy of being fully vaccinated by your start date if an offer is made or have a medical or sincerely held religious exemption for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? Failure to comply with our policy and submit proof of compliance or receive approval for a valid medical or sincerely held religious belief exemption prior to your start date will nullify any offer of employment extended to you.

• Delta Dental includes: Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental Insurance Company, Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental of New York