Lead Software Engineer

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving force that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference working in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely and Globally. In 2021 we grew our teams by almost 50% and continue to grow even more in 2022. Are we recognized as a company you are supported by for your career and growth, and a great place to work? Definitely. Evolent Health International (Pune, India) has been certified as “Great Places to Work” in 2021. In 2020 and 2021 Evolent in the U.S. was both named Best Company for Women to Advance list by Parity.org and earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). This index is the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Evolent is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to be a key member of the application engineering team. This individual will play a critical role in executing Evolent's mission by architecting, developing, and maintaining technical processes around the .NET platform assets to ensure success in terms of both revenue and timely release of current and next generation products and capabilities.

Essential Functions

• Be a part of an application development IT shop through the requirement, design, development, QA SDLC cycles with a focus on C#, ASP.NET, associated web technologies, and relational database technologies
• Lead aspects of our services-based solutions and internal applications to ensure consistency, quality, architectural integrity, scalability, and availability
• Hands-on engineer who will support implementation during design, development, and maintenance of Evolent’s core platforms. This includes web applications, services, and data management routines.
• Investigate and integrate advances in software engineering technology and practices into the overall development process; these areas should include, but are not limited to programming languages, relational database systems, application frameworks, software processes, software automation, and system optimization / scaling
• Help to resolve questions of program intent, software requirements, and inclusion of internal checks and controls
• Develop software solutions using industry best practices and in the area of security and performance in a web and SOA architecture environment
• Collaborates with team and business owners in the development and/or execution of all types of software development considering the objectives of the organization
• Participate in the full systems life cycle with solution design, development, implementation, and product support using scrum and other agile methodologies.
• Maintain source-code repository and participate in deployment of code into production.
• Help explore and implement modern technologies.
• Develop software using known best practices such as Unit Testing, Continuous Integration
• Communicates the status and forecasting of these projects to the internal clients through a variety of methods including project status reports.
• Research competitive online marketing presence/campaigns and maintains a pulse on industry trends and systems; bringing forth ideas that embrace emerging technology/executions and innovative ideas.
• Develops metrics for gauging success of enhancements using TFS and other issue tracking software in an agile/SCRUM SDLC environment
• Identifies modern technologies that will benefit short- and long-term department goals.
• Provides thought leadership in the areas of strategy and technology.
• Produces and implements visual enhancements to existing designs as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned
  
  
  

Academic Qualification

• BE (B. Tech) or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field
  
  
  

Mandatory Skills:

Strong candidates will be comfortable working across the complete technology stack implemented using Microsoft technologies (.NET, SQL Server, Azure).

• Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and outstanding problem-solving skills
• Ability to work both independently, and as part of a globally distributed team of technical and non-technical colleagues
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience operating, monitoring, and maintaining software / application in production
• 9+ years of experience with:
• Software and application development
• Microsoft & .NET Technologies - specifically .NET Core, .NET6/8, C#, T-SQL, Blazor, Azure
• Building scalable and performant RESTful/Web APIs using ASP.NET
• Relational database development (preferably using SQL Server
• Testing - XUnit, NUnit, MSTest
• Logging - NLog, log4net
• ORMs - Dapper, Entity Framework, NHibernate
• Design patterns & SOLID Principals
• Dependency Injection
• SDLC in an Agile Scrum environment
• Azure
  
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Healthcare industry experience
• Experience breaking down legacy monolithic platforms
• Experience with microservices oriented development and methodologies
• Experience in configuring and using Azure PaaS offerings (e.g. App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Service Bus, Azure Config, etc.)
• Understanding ANSI X12, HL7, and other data formats
• Experience with Caching technologies - specifically Redis
  
  
  

Mandatory Requirements:

Employees must have a high-speed broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps and the ability to set up a wired connection to their home network to ensure effective remote work. These requirements may be updated as needed by the business.

Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.