Software Engineer

Pay Range:

$93,600.00 - $140,400.00

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

At BCBSRI, our greatest resource is our people.

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.

We recognize that to do your best work, you have to be your best self.
It’s why we offer flexible work arrangements that include remote and hybrid opportunities and paid time off. We provide tuition reimbursement and assist with student-loan repayment. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance as well as programs that support your mental health and well-being. We pay competitively, offer bonuses and investment plans, and are committed to growing and developing our employees.

Our culture is one of belonging.
We strive to be transparent and accountable. We believe in equipping our associates with the knowledge and resources they need to be successful. No matter where you’re at in the organization, you’re an integral part of our team and your input, thoughts, and ideas are valued.

Join others who value a workplace for all.
We appreciate and celebrate everything that makes us unique, from personal characteristics to past experiences. Our different perspectives strengthen us as an organization and help us better serve all Rhode Islanders.

We’re dedicated to serving Rhode Islanders.
Our focus extends beyond providing access to high-quality, affordable, and equitable care. To further improve the health and well-being of our fellow Rhode Islanders, we regularly roll up our sleeves and get to work (literally) in communities all across the state—building homes, working in food pantries, revitalizing community centers, and transforming outdoor spaces for children and adults. Because we believe it is our collective responsibility to uplift our fellow Rhode Islanders when and where we can, our associates receive additional paid time to volunteer.

Why this job matters:

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 will do:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor and maintain enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, data-enabled workflows, automation solutions, and digital solutions.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Participate in solution discovery activities by analyzing business processes and identifying technical options and tradeoffs.

• Develop secure, reliable, and maintainable code aligned with enterprise engineering, architecture, security and security standards and best practices.
• Utilize approved AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software development, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
• Build and integrate solutions across enterprise platforms, data sources, API’s, AI services, agentic workflows and operational processes.
• Contribute throughout the solution lifecycle, including analysis, development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Apply DevOps best practices including source control, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability tools to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application, integration, performance, and production issues.
• Ensure solutions comply with HIPAA, information security, data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate solution approaches, technical tradeoffs, delivery risks, and implementation progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge resources to support ongoing maintenance and adoption.
• Explore emerging cloud, data, automation, AI technologies, and industry trends to recommend opportunities for experimentation and operational improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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.

The law requires an employer to post notices describing the Federal laws. Please visit  www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal to view the "Know Your Rights" poster.

Why work here?

At BCBSRI, our greatest resource is our people.

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.

We recognize that to do your best work, you have to be your best self.
It’s why we offer flexible work arrangements that include remote and hybrid opportunities and paid time off. We provide tuition reimbursement and assist with student-loan repayment. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance as well as programs that support your mental health and well-being. We pay competitively, offer bonuses and investment plans, and are committed to growing and developing our employees.

Our culture is one of belonging.
We strive to be transparent and accountable. We believe in equipping our associates with the knowledge and resources they need to be successful. No matter where you’re at in the organization, you’re an integral part of our team and your input, thoughts, and ideas are valued.

Join others who value a workplace for all.
We appreciate and celebrate everything that makes us unique, from personal characteristics to past experiences. Our different perspectives strengthen us as an organization and help us better serve all Rhode Islanders.

We’re dedicated to serving Rhode Islanders.
Our focus extends beyond providing access to high-quality, affordable, and equitable care. To further improve the health and well-being of our fellow Rhode Islanders, we regularly roll up our sleeves and get to work (literally) in communities all across the state—building homes, working in food pantries, revitalizing community centers, and transforming outdoor spaces for children and adults. Because we believe it is our collective responsibility to uplift our fellow Rhode Islanders when and where we can, our associates receive additional paid time to volunteer.

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.

The law requires an employer to post notices describing the Federal laws. Please visit  www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal to view the "Know Your Rights" poster.