Software Engineer

Please email HR_Talent_AcquisitionTeam@bcbsri.org if you are a candidate seeking a reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process.

We come from varying backgrounds, different cultures, and unique experiences. We are hard-working, caring, and creative individuals who collaborate, support one another, and grow together. Passion, empathy, and understanding are at the forefront of everything we do—not just for our members, but for our employees as well.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports scalable technology solutions that advance business objectives and enhance the member, provider, and associate experience. Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, this role delivers secure, reliable applications, integrations, APIs, and digital solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.  Contributes across the full solution lifecycle and leverages modern engineering, cloud, automation, AI-assisted development  practices, and agentic AI solution patterns to deliver high-quality solutions while building the technical, business, and communication skills needed for increasingly complex and business-facing engineering opportunities.

What you need to succeed:

• →Equivalent combination of education, technical training, certifications, and relevant work experience in computer science, software engineering, information systems, data science, or related disciplines.
• →3 to 5 years of software engineering, application development, systems integration, automation development, data engineering or related experience.
• →Experience building, integrating and supporting enterprise technology solutions.
• →Experience developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production technology solutions.
• →Experience working with applications, APIs, integrations, databases, or data-enabled workflows.
• →Experience working collaboratively within an Agile, product, or iterative delivery environment
• →Technical Skills
  • →Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, .NET, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • →Experience with designing, developing, testing and supporting APIs, web services, and system integrations.
  • →Working knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data structures, and data modeling concepts.
  • →Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and practices to improve productivity, quality, testing, and documentation.
  • →Understanding of modern software architecture, design patterns, secure coding, scalability and maintainability principles.
  • →Experience with source control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and maintainability principles.
  • →Familiarity with cloud-native development and services, preferably within Microsoft Azure, infrastructure as code, workflow orchestration, data pipelines, automation, AI enabled solution patterns and agentic orchestration patterns.
• →Business and Professional Skills
  • →Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
  • →Ability to understand business processes and translate business needs into technical solutions.
  • →Ability to evaluate and validate AI-generated code and technical recommendations using sound engineering judgment
  • →Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • →Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs.
  • →Ownership mindset with accountability for delivering high-quality solutions.
  • →Customer and outcome-focused approach to solution delivery.
  • →Commitment to continuous learning and adoption of emerging technologies.

The extras:

• →Experience in healthcare, health insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• →Experience with developing solutions in cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• →Experience developing API’s, microservices and other enterprise integration services.
• →Familiarity with healthcare data standards and business processes.
• →Exposure to AI-assisted software development, machine learning services, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI and automation frameworks, or AI orchestration technologies.
• →Experience developing workflow automation, orchestration, or process-integrated solutions.
• →Experience developing prototypes or proofs of concept and evolving successful concepts into supported production solutions.
• →Experience working directly with business or operational stakeholders to understand processes and translate needs into technical solutions.
  

Location:
BCBSRI is headquartered in downtown Providence, conveniently located near the train station and bus terminal. We actively support associate well-being and work/life balance and offer the following schedules, based on role:

• →In-office: onsite 5 days per week
• →Hybrid: onsite 2-4 days per week
• →Remote: onsite 0-1 days per week. Permitted to reside in the following states, pending approval from the Human Resources Department: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia
   

Our culture of belonging at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is at the core of all we do, and it strengthens our ability to meet the challenges of today’s healthcare industry. BCBSRI is an equal opportunity employer.

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