[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack @Speridian Technologies

Role Description

Speridian Technologies is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack for our State of California Client, the Department of Healthcare Services, Behavioral Health. This person will be part of a long-term, fully budgeted, state-of-the-art, extremely vast technical modernization project. This is a remote role; however, there may be meetings in the Sacramento area several times a year. Candidates are expected to work business hours, Monday-Friday, Pacific Time Zone.

Join DHCS’s Behavioral Health Transformation: Where Purpose Meets Innovation

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the design and development of critical systems supporting California’s behavioral health transformation efforts. This role is part of the Licensing & Certification (LNC) platform team, which builds and operates backend systems that support behavioral health facility applications, renewals, provider profiles, and regulatory workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll work closely with engineers across the team to:

• Design systems
• Write production code
• Solve difficult technical problems
• Improve how we build and operate software

You’ll also partner closely with a Senior Engineering Coach to help strengthen engineering practices, delivery consistency, mentorship, and overall team effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems experience
• Experience leading technical projects and influencing architecture decisions
• Strong experience building APIs and backend services in C# / .NET
• Expertise with PostgreSQL, Entity Framework Core, relational schema design, and query optimization
• Experience with asynchronous processing and workflow orchestration systems such as Quartz.NET, Temporal, or Hangfire
• Strong understanding of scalable backend architecture and service design
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-focused environments is a plus
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound technical tradeoff decisions
• Comfortable working across architecture, implementation, operations, and delivery

Requirements

• Languages & Frameworks: C#, .NET 9+, ASP.NET Core, Blazor
• Experience with Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript/JavaScript is a plus
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, SQL, NoSQL, Entity Framework Core, Npgsql, Kafka/Kinesis, Elasticsearch
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS / GCP / Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm
• Observability & Operations: Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Serilog, CI/CD pipelines, Distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring
• Security & Architecture: Microservices and event-driven systems, OAuth/OIDC and RBAC, Encryption and zero-trust security principles

Company Description

At DHCS we are leading a transformative journey in Behavioral Health, reshaping systems and services to ensure better outcomes for communities across California. Our Behavioral Health transformation initiative is more than a project—it’s a movement to make California a leader in accessible, high-quality health services. We’re setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies, cutting-edge technology, continuous improvement, and a relentless commitment to serving the public good.

Our core values are what make us successful and define the impact we have on the DHCS program and California’s citizens:

• Partnership: Respect Others, Practice Empathy, Earn Trust
• Ownership: Take Accountability, Show Reliability, Act with Integrity
• Grit: Bring Passion, Exhibit Perseverance, Demonstrate Resilience
• Value: Drive Outcomes, Maximize Impact, Keep Improving