Junior IT Developer (Remote)

**We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work remotely in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs.

Are you an Associate IT Developer with experience in MERN Full Stack development? Are you looking for your next opportunity? If so, consider joining us on our mission of helping our communities achieve better health!

Get To Know Us!

Florida Blue, a GuideWell Company, has been providing health insurance to residents of Florida for 75 years. Driven by its mission of helping people and communities achieve better health, the company serves more than five million health care members across the state. We are looking for exceptional people who will bring our mission to life and succeed by putting the member first.

What We Can Offer YOU!

We offer competitive salaries and benefits, work-life balance, flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to work across our enterprise!

Come grow your career with Information Technology (IT)! We build innovative, enterprise-scalable end to end data analytics enabled products and services used by our internal users and external partners including Members, Providers, and Agents, with an emphasis on keeping health information secure and supporting network and data center infrastructure. As we strive to work cross-functionally across the enterprise to build new services, tools, and evaluate new technologies, we welcome self-driven and strongly motivated people who enjoy brainstorming and embrace best practices in secure and scalable design, deployment, and development.

What Will be Your Purpose?

• Associate IT Developers are responsible for development, programming, coding of Information Technology solutions.
• Associate IT Developers are responsible for documenting detailed system specifications, participation in unit testing and maintenance of planned and unplanned internally developed applications, evaluation, and performance testing of purchased products.
• Responsible for including IT Controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, as well as availability of the application and data processed or output by the application.
• Associate IT developers perform job functions under the supervision of IT Developers or Advanced IT Developers.

What You’ll be Doing?

• Write code for simple system designs.
• Can read and understand system and functional requirements.
• Adheres to the coding standard/practices established by the advanced developers.
• Write simple technical specifications for single programs.
• Report inaccuracies and inconsistencies found in system and functional requirements to other Developers.
• “Scope” time, resources, etc. required to complete programming projects.
• Seek review from other Developers on estimates.
• Consult with other IT Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Project Managers, and vendors.
• Accountable for including IT Controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, as well as availability of the application and data processed or output by the application.
• Ensure all SDLC guidelines are adhered to as defined by the SDLC Office to support audit compliance.

What You Must Have?

• 2+ years related work experience. Experience Details: Professional experience with technical design and coding in the IT industry.
• Required Education: High school diploma or GED.

• Experience with unit testing and release procedures. Basic demonstrated proficiency using versioning tools.
• Demonstrated database and SQL skills.
• Working knowledge of Information Technology fields and computer systems.
• Demonstrated organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Flexible team player.
• Ability to manage tasks independently under close supervision and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
• Must demonstrate initiative and effective independent decision-making skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Must understand the systems development life cycle.
• Basic proficiency programming in at least one object-oriented programming language.
• Basic proficiency using standard desktop applications such as MS Suite and flowcharting tools such as Visio.
• Basic proficiency using debugging tools.

What is Preferred?

• MERN full stack development: MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, NodeJS.
• Experience building REST APIs.
• Experience with JavaScript.
• Experience with Agile methodology.
• Preferred Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field Related IT field.

General Physical Demands:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.