The Role
Some engineers tolerate complexity; the Lead Software Engineer we want at Blue Cross Blue Shield hunts it down and refactors it out of existence. This Lead Software Engineer opening rewards 7 years with more than $104,000 - $153,000 — it offers a real grip on the technology direction at Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Key Responsibilities
- Refine and maintain microservices that support Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in Beaumont, TX
- Set the Initiative coding standards the rest of Blue Cross Blue Shield engineering follows
- Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
- Pair PHP and Continuous Learning in a pipeline Blue Cross Blue Shield can extend without your help later
- Drive the gRPC incident postmortem that stops the Beaumont outage from recurring
- Apply gRPC and Continuous Learning to solve quality-focused engineering challenges
- Watch TypeScript error budgets and pump the brakes before Beaumont, TX burns through them
- Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Blue Cross Blue Shield's growing user base
What You'll Bring
- Comfort being accountable for an oddball-friendly outcome in a contract role
- Cross-functional ease, from Kotlin engineers to TypeScript marketers
- Comfort owning technology decisions in a TX market
- A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat
- Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
Blue Cross Blue Shield is the mission-driven Beaumont company that turned a niche technology obsession into something the whole TX now uses. We hand new Lead Software Engineer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.
We hand you $104,000 - $153,000, a growth plan, a mentor, and benefits, then let you flex your week to fit Beaumont the way you like.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield team is scaling in Beaumont, TX, and we are hiring for it now.
Don't just bookmark this Lead Software Engineer posting in Beaumont, act on it and apply today.
Skills
- gRPC
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- Ruby
- PHP
- Continuous Learning
- Initiative
Benefits
- Vacation Days
- Massage Therapy
- Employee discount program
- Housing Allowance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Professional development budget
- Flexible Hours
- Hackathons and innovation time
- 401(k) Plan
- Free laptop and tech setup