Associate Software Engineer

Join our dynamic Electronic Data & Interoperability Systems department at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee as an Associate Software Engineer I. In this role, you’ll assist in analyzing, developing, and implementing customer service applications using SQL and Java.

You’ll be a great match for this role, if in addition to the required qualifications, you have experience with SQL server or other relational databases, as well as experience with Java. Experience with microservices and Agile methodologies/ceremonies are a plus.

Note:                                                                           

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.
• On call rotation will be needed one month per every five months.

Job Responsibilities

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate information systems
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results.
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts.
• Maintains technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, utilities and networks needed to support work assignments.   
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems.
• May conduct presentations to provide end users with knowledge to maximize their use of developed systems.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested.