Blue Shield of California

Full Stack Engineer, Principal

Blue Shield of California  •  Oakland, CA (Hybrid)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Your Role

As a Full Stack Engineer in the healthcare space, you’ll architect seamless, mission‑critical applications that clinicians and patients depend on. From polished interfaces to high‑performance backends, you’ll shape technology that improves care delivery and enhances lives.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Serve as a recognized technical authority across multiple products, platforms, or domains, shaping application architecture and engineering direction beyond a single team.
  • Develop secure, testable, and maintainable code aligned with modern architectural patterns
  • Implement system integrations and manage reliable data models for distributed components
  • Ensure applications are cloud-ready and compatible with established CI/CD workflows
  • Lead resolution of the most complex and ambiguous technical challenges, driving durable, long-term solutions that improve platform health and reduce systemic technical risk.
  • Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, code quality, and documentation, while critically applying outputs
  • Drive system reliability and observability practices, ensuring proactive identification and resolution of complex production issues across systems
  • Define and promote engineering standards, patterns, and best practices that improve scalability, security, reliability, and delivery effectiveness across the organization.

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in full stack development
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular or similar) and JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience building backend services and APIs using .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies
  • Strong knowledge of SQL (e.g., MS SQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases and RESTful integrations
  • Experience developing cloud-native applications (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable)
  • Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker)
  • Familiarity using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Bicep, ARM, Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
  • Experience using AI-assisted coding tools in professional software development (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar)
  • Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare) preferred
  • Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards or enterprise healthcare platforms (e.g., Epic) preferred
  • End-to-end ownership mindset – thinks about UI, logic, and data as one cohesive system
  • Engineering pragmatism – balances ideal architecture with delivery speed and business value
  • AI-augmented builder – leverages AI tools effectively while maintaining strong engineering judgment
  • Effective collaboration with product, design, QA, security, and platform teams
  • Ability to operate in dynamic, evolving environments with shifting priorities
  • Clear communication of technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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Blue Shield of California

About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. The health plan is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with nearly 6 million members, over 7,500 employees and more than $25 billion in annual revenue.

Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $60 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities.

For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Year Founded
1939
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