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Our next Backend Developer will spend less time in meetings and more time in MongoDB, which is how Aetna prefers to operate. Rare is the senior opening that pairs $81,000 - $119,000 with the freedom to shape technology work the way this Wichita one does.
Key Responsibilities
- Watch Go error budgets and pump the brakes before Wichita, KS burns through them
- Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using GitLab CI
- Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
- Own the candor-rich edge cases in Aetna's Swift billing nobody else wants to touch
- Catch the feedback-driven Webpack regression in staging before it ever reaches Wichita customers
- Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
- Sit with technology users in Wichita to learn what the Swift tool really needs
- Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Aetna
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated comfort presenting to senior leadership
- 7+ years putting Conflict Resolution to work in a technology setting
- Experience at the senior level inside a freelance role
- Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a senior capacity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 6+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
Aetna took everything frustrating about technology and rebuilt it from scratch in Wichita, KS, with underdog-spirited attention to Linux. We'd rather hear hard truths in the hallway than polite fictions in the all-hands.
Salary opens at $81,000 - $119,000 and the perks compound: paid learning, health coverage, mentorship, and a flexible Wichita, KS setup.
Just updated, just confirmed, just waiting on the right applicant.
Your MongoDB deserves a stage bigger than your current one, and Aetna has it.