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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Engineer IV - **Company:** Premera Blue Cross - **Location:** Mountlake Terrace, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $135,600.0 - $230,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Software Quality, Information Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Hardware Debugging, Programming Languages - **Published:** October 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_premerabc-R28857 ## About the Role Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers. + Perform other duties as assigned. **What You'll Bring** **Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in computer science or information systems + Eight (8) years of software development experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience working with cloud solutions. + Experience in healthcare industry or a highly regulated environment. + Technical knowledge and experience with specific technical tools used at Premera (i.e. Facets) or required for open position. + Previous experience in an agile environment. + Exposure to API and service-based technologies. + Experience using and creating automated test tools. **Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities** + Demonstrated expertise in development of systems, applications and tools that solve business problems and improve effectiveness of business solutions. + Deep technical knowledge in at least one area/technology and demonstrated deep hands-on expertise in multiple disparate technologies. Demonstrated ability to think in terms of architecture. Demonstrated experience building multiple, high performance, stable and scalable solutions that have been deployed in enterprise setting. + Strong team player with ability to influence and bring together differing points of view. + Ability to continually evolve technical knowledge and skills. Experience providing advice and mentoring to less experienced staff. + Experience playing a leading role in implementation and deployment of successful enterprise-level system. + Strong written and verbal communication skills and good presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences. + Demonstrates resilience and skill to navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. Able to provide effective feedback to others. + Skill applying creativity to work. + Demonstrate good judgment and decision making including when making appropriate technical trade-offs between short- and long-term business needs. **Premera total rewards** Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. ## Description Learn more about our recent awards and recognitions as a greatest workplace. (https://www.premera.com/visitor/careers#awards) Learn how Premera supports our members, customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: https://healthsource.premera.com/ . **The Software Development Engineer IV** performs a pivotal role in ensuring the success of enterprise software development projects by providing technical leadership, team guidance, and oversight to our development teams. This role requires a combination of technical expertise (analyze, design, code, test & debug), communication skills, leadership abilities, and the capability to monitor project outcomes and make data-driven decisions to enhance the delivery of software. Ensures that solutions are consistent with organization's objectives. Demonstrating specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Focuses on highly complex enterprise solution delivery. Ensures that solutions are consistent with organization's objectives. Demonstrates specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Generally focused on highly complex enterprise solutions. **What You'll Do** + Define, design and implement feature development with focus on technical direction, quality, usability and performance leveraging data to make decisions. + Partner with business and IT leaders to identify and understand multi-faceted problems or improvement opportunities. + Partner with the development teams, business partners, architecture, and customers to understand project requirements, provide technical excellence and oversight, and resolve technical challenges guaranteeing code quality. + Participate in live site operations with emphasis on timely response, delivery and satisfaction for customers. + Serve as the primary engineering and strategic implementation partners, ensuring clear, effective , and timely communication. + Oversee the review process of code, ensuring compliance with best practices, Premera standards, and architectural guidelines. Responsible for vendor oversight and code sign-off ensuring an effective relationship and high-quality outcomes of vendor work. + Responsible for monitoring key performance indicators and ensuring successful project outcomes.. + Analyze project data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance the delivery of software. + Train and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with company standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements. + Oversee engineering excellence and continuous automation. This includes testing associated with cross-functional project team and in-team efforts. + Sign off appropriate technical or architectural documentation and notifications for changes to production systems or fixes to production problems are completed and that SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) artifacts were created. + Act as technical and business leader sharing knowledge, and expertise with others inside team as well as with other customers. Proactively contribute to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community. + Stay current in best practices, technology trends and the organization's business while mentoring and sharing knowledge gained with others. Maintain expertise in one or more technical areas.