Software Engineer, Medicaid
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Job Description
Backend Java engineer modernizing CMS Medicaid drug-pricing software for government services. Building services, data interfaces, testing, and drug-utilization review tools.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain back-end services and interfaces using Java and Spring Boot
- Work with PostgreSQL and relational databases for data storage, retrieval, and management
- Contribute to the next version of drug utilization review tools
- Help lead automated testing, including unit, integration, and performance tests
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production-system issues
- Write clean, scalable, maintainable code aligned with coding standards
- Provide constructive feedback through code review
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and quarterly planning across teams
- Work as part of a small scrum team within a larger program modernizing a CMS Medicaid drug-pricing platform
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong Java programming ability
- Working proficiency with Spring Boot
- Solid database design and data modeling skills
- Experience creating and maintaining data models
- Ability to read, understand, and safely change a large codebase not originally written by the candidate
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience writing automated tests
- Experience working in Agile development environments
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as Angular is a plus
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure is a plus
- Prior healthcare, Medicaid, or public-benefits systems experience is a plus
- Must perform all work physically within the United States
- Must be a United States citizen
- Must be able to pass a government-performed public trust background check
- Humble and caring attitude aligned with For People's values
Benefits:
- 100% remote work
- For People pays 100% of Gold-tier employee health insurance premiums
- Annual company profit sharing
- Positive work-life balance and healthy expectations
- Occasional in-person program-planning trips scheduled well in advance


















