Company Description

Accolade provides personalized health and benefits solutions designed to empower every person to live their healthiest life. We help millions of people and their employers navigate the complexities of the healthcare system with empathy, expertise and through exceptional service while supporting them in lowering the cost of care and improving health outcomes. Accolade blends technology-enabled health and benefits solutions, specialized support from Accolade Health Assistants® and Clinicians and access to expert medical opinion services for high-cost treatment decisions. We consistently receive consumer satisfaction ratings over 90 percent and have been recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top Place to Work 2020 and Business Intelligence for Excellence in Customer Service 2020. Please visit us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and at accolade.com.

Role overview

The Software Engineer III is responsible for helping us build and test our next generation of services to support the Accolade Gov platform. We strive to help our clients navigate the winding road in healthcare by building intuitive, performant, and helpful software. As a developer on our application team, you will be at the forefront of reinventing how we help those we serve.

Job Description

A day in the life…

• Work with a small agile team to design, build or migrate micro services and core components necessary to support our government customers.
• Interface with our internal users and beta testers to gather feedback and troubleshoot issues.
• Productize our tools to help create an application platform which can be used to create new applications and features quickly and consistently.
• Work closely with our DevOps teams to deploy and support our software using cloud services and tools such as Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Cloudbees Jenkins, Docker and more.
• Design and build solutions with multi cloud platforms in mind, with an emphasis on data integrity and HIPAA compliance
• Operates effectively as a collaborative member of the development team.
• Operates effectively as an individual for quick turnaround of enhancements and fixes.
• Responsible for meeting expectations and deliverables on time with high quality.
• Effectively develops in a clean, well structured, easily maintainable format.
• Demonstrates creative, technical, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business environments.

Qualifications

What we are looking for…

• Candidate must be a US Citizen who currently holds or is able to attain a public trust or higher-level clearance..
• Minimum of 5 years of Java service development experience is required, preferably using Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and experience with CloudFormation is highly desired.
• Experience building Rest based micro services running in docker via AWS ECS
• Experience with event based AWS services such SQS and SNS
• Experience with both relational and No SQL databases such as MySQL and AWS DynamoDB
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Desire and willingness to work in an Agile, collaborative, innovative, flexible, and team-oriented environment

Desired Personal Characteristics:

• An excellent leader with a “can-do” attitude
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, methodical & inquisitive
• A motivated self-starter with a solid level of experience that quickly grasps complex challenges.
• A skillful communicator with experience working with technical management teams.
• A strong customer focus and metrics driven.
• A quick learner with a passion to challenge him/herself outside of the comfort zone.
• Fantastic collaborator, team player, negotiator, and influencer
• Fast fail entrepreneurial and innovative spirit
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment where continuous improvement is the norm and the bar for quality is extremely high.
• Excited by the challenges of working in a product team undergoing rapid growth serving millions of customers

Where permitted by applicable law, candidates must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Accolade, Inc. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities or for a sincerely held religious belief.
Please note that a request for exemption due to a personal preference not to receive a vaccine is not protected by law. All requests for exemptions from this mandate shall be directed to the Company recruiter who shall route the request to the Company’s human resources department.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.