GoHealth
We're disrupting the health insurance industry with our digital platform.
Chicago, IL

Senior Software Engineer

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Company Description

GoHealth is a leading developer of Web-based sales and online insurance marketing tools for the health insurance industry, helping insurance brokers, agents and carriers connect with customers and transact business more efficiently. We are revolutionizing the health insurance industry through technology. 

GoHealth made the Crain's Fast Fifty list in 2014, and we were named one of North America’s Fastest Growing Tech Companies on Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500.  

This is your chance to be at the right place at the right time, and work on a product with real-life relevance for all Americans.  

Job Description

A Senior Software Engineer is responsible for being the technical lead on a GoHealth product or key product component(s). This person is completely accountable for gathering requirements, designing and implementing the product/component, providing estimates, overseeing the development, and deploying and monitoring the application in production. This developer works closely with the department and product architects to make sure the product/component developments meet our business requirements, fit into our overall product line, and is a reliable and professional application.

The Senior Software Engineer will practice scrum, and all of its ceremonies (planning meetings, demos, and retrospective meetings)  Everyone at GoHealth is given the opportunity to be a Scrum Master.  The Senior Software Engineer will be expected to create, innovate, and conduct "brown bag" technical sessions.  Did you know everyone at GoHealth writes code, even our Architects?  The code we write is at least 80% covered by JUnit test cases.  Test cases are written for our business logic, DAO implementations, controllers, and JavaScript.  

Here's a little bit about the tools you'll utilize:

We use JDK 1.8, PMD, CPD, CheckStyle, CoderNarc, JSHint, ReviewBoard, Mercurial, Eclipse, puppet, CentOS, Gradle, Apache Ivy & Ant, Maven, Grunt, and Capistrano.  Our applications are powered by Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular JS, Groovy/Grails, and other Open Source frameworks.   

Responsibilities
  • Creating designs for features and major enhancements.
  • Providing development estimates of the new features and enhancements.
  • Mentoring new developers for your product/component(s).
  • Understanding the business needs and drivers for the product/component(s) you manage.
  • Performing as the "lead developer" on the product/component team(s).
  • Enforcing departmental coding standards and best practices for your product/component(s).
  • Performing thorough code reviews of all code.
  • Taking accountability for the performance and reliability of your product/component(s).
  • Making sure that all code is well-written, well-documented, and well-tested.
Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), or 5 years of Java development experience. Equivalent Foreign education and experience accepted.
  • Experience installing, configuring and tuning Java application servers; knowledge of Ergonomics, Garbage Collector and heap settings is a plus.
  • At least 1 year of experience running application servers in a production Linux environment.
  • Ability to work alone and in small teams.
  • Experience gathering requirements and performing basic project planning, and writing design documents.
  • Experience with the MySQL relational database.
  • Experience with Spring and Hibernate/JPA.
  • Experience writing unit tests with JUnit or TestNG.
  • Knowledge of Groovy, Ruby, Scala or Python is a plus.
  • Strong Java experience required

Additional Information

GoHealth offers a full benefits package, an open vacation policy, a very casual dress code and a fun, interactive working environment.

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What are GoHealth Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Unconscious bias training is completed by all employees and key leaders.
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
At GoHealth you will find a very interactive Women@GoHealth, WomeninSales, Black Lives Matter ERGs to name a few. We continue to empower employees to create employee resource groups within
Hiring practices that promote diversity
From our gender neutralized job descriptions that encourage women and underrepresented groups to apply,to our interview practices, GoHealth strives to promote diversity when hiring.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
GoHealth provides all employees access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which provides well being and financial assistance. Our open PTO policy is also available for mental health days.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Employee stock purchase plan
We have recently become public and will allow employees to purchase stock during certain times.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide 6 weeks of paid recovery time for new mom's and two weeks of bonding time to all new parents.
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Pre-COVID 19, GoHealth sponsored children's day by celebrating GoHealth families.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Our employees are encouraged to use our open PTO policy towards volunteering.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees can use our open PTO policy towards sick leave.
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Recreational clubs
We have runners groups, volleyball groups and other
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
All GoHealth employees receive a work from home stipend to improve their WFH environment.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Access to LinkedIn Learning has been provided to all employees as part of their professional and personal growth.
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

In addition to virtual company wide sponsored Health & Wellness Initiatives, employee referral bonuses, open vacation policy, we offer a work from home stipend to all new employees. We know that this pandemic has been difficult and working from home is a change. Every new employee receives access to a Work From Hope stipend to purchase items that will make your work from home experience much more comfortable.

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