Staff Software Engineer

Join us in creating a better way!

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide consumers through their health insurance and related options when, where, and how they prefer. We’re creating a better way – one that’s transparent and trustworthy for both our consumers externally and our employees internally.

Move your career forward while connecting countless people to the life- changing, quality care they deserve. Our diverse team of innovators supports one another in solving some of the toughest challenges. We’re always on the lookout for creative opportunities to do right by our customers, and each other. Together, we’re creating a better way to work, united by our common passion to make a difference.

At eHealth, our mission is to expertly guide our customers through their health insurance needs by matching them with personalized, and affordable health insurance plans. We connect our customers with quality, affordable health insurance through a proprietary marketplace offering Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and ancillary plans from 200 health insurance carriers nationwide. By doing so, our vision is to be the nation's leading and most trusted source of consumer purchasing of health insurance, ancillary products, and related options on our marketplace.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Carrier Integration Engineering team at eHealth. This role will help design and build the company’s next-generation services in Carrier Integration area. Carrier Integration team develops software services and components that seamlessly send insurance applications to insurance carriers and track their status.

Who You Are

You have proven industry experience in software design and development. You are a solution-centric, results-oriented, and experienced Software Engineer. You want to “build what’s right, not what’s easy.” You will work with other engineers in a collaborative environment to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects. You are ambitious, talented, and driven to make the team and project successful.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver features/projects for Carrier Integration area and support them
• Work with talented team of engineers to deliver top quality on challenging projects to delight customers and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with leaders in Engineering, Product Management, UX and Carrier Services teams giving input on what is both intuitive and feasible
• Contribute towards establishing development standards & evaluating technology choices
• Work in an environment where we move quickly, are always learning, and enjoy a challenge
• Demonstrate eHealth’s values in your behaviors, practices, and decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• BS in Computer Science or similar field
• 8+ years of working experience in rapid product development
• Proven experience providing solutions in creative and effective ways
• Full stack development experience
• Expertise with architecting and developing using modern Java and JavaScript ecosystem
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL database technologies
• Experience using Spring framework, event streaming using Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js
• Experience collaborating with Product managers to help identify dependencies and break down features into individual engineering tasks
• Experience collaborating with multiple engineering teams to deliver projects on time and with high quality
• Help developers with code review and technical challenges
• Identify and communicate project risks to the stake holders and suggest mitigation strategies
• Fully utilize AI tools in software development

Nice to have

• Experience with Angular JS
• Experience with integration using oAuth 2, OIDC, and/or SAML
• Previous experience working with a large engineering team on a complex web application and backend services
• Experience with modernizing legacy monolith application

What We Offer (benefits)

• Generous benefits include medical, dental and vision beginning on your first day of employment
• 401K with matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase program
• 12 company paid holidays and flexible time off (PTO for non-exempt)

Please include a link to your LinkedIn profile, Github, and/or portfolio of

your work that you’d like to share with the hiring team. Profiles with these

will be prioritized.

PLEASE NO AGENCIES. We are NOT able to hire contractors through a 3rd party.

We are ONLY considering direct, full-time employment with eHealth in the US.

The base pay range reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The actual base pay offered will depend on various factors including individual skills, experience, performance, qualifications, the department budget, and the location where work is performed. Base pay is one component of eHealth’s total rewards package, which also includes an annual performance bonus, plus an array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness. For more information on our total rewards offerings, please visit our career site.

Base Pay Range -$152,200 - $190,300

eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.