Principal Software Engineer (Remote)
Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield
Location: Chicago, IL (Remote)
Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-02
About this role
Synergie Medication Collective is a new medication contracting organization founded by a group of Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliated companies to serve both Blues and select independent health plans. Synergie is focused on improving affordability and access to costly medical benefit drugs — ones that are injected or infused by a health care professional in a clinical setting — for nearly 100 million Americans. The Principal Software Engineer will be a key resource at Synergie, supporting the Technology team in developing creative and innovative solutions to support business and analytic outcomes. In this exciting role on a small team, you will have a big impact by working closely with all aspects of Synergie in developing new and enhanced software applications and systems that support “Lowering Medication Costs and Improving Access to Care for Millions.”
Primary Job Functions
- Design and implement new and enhanced software applications, processes, and systems to support internal & external stakeholders.
- Understand Synergie’s business objectives and leverage various coding languages (e.g., SAS, VBA, SQL, Python, Java) to create novel solutions to streamline and automate processes wherever possible.
- Facilitate detailed technical discussions with various internal and external stakeholders to establish new and enhanced features to software applications and systems.
- Provide technical support to internal and external stakeholders for various components of Synergie’s IT Infrastructure.
- Develop and manage ongoing updates to technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures related to Synergie Applications and Systems.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education, Experience, and Certification
Education
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required.
Experience
Required: At least 5 years of related work expe...