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Join Us in Shaping the Future of Health Care
At MVP Health Care, we're on a mission to create a healthier future for everyone. That means embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by people who are curious, humble, and committed to making a difference-every interaction, every day. We've been putting people first for over 40 years, offering high-quality health plans across New York and Vermont and partnering with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care. As a not-for-profit, we invest in what matters most: our customers, our communities, and our team.
What's in it for you:

• Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
• A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
• An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace.

You'll contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by bringing curiosity to spark innovation, humility to collaborate as a team, and a deep commitment to being the difference for our customers. Your role will reflect our shared goal of enhancing health care delivery and building healthier, more vibrant communities.
Qualifications you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• The availability to work full-time, hybrid, four days in office per week in Schenectady, or Rochester, NY

• 3-7+ years of software engineering experience with API development
• Experience supporting enterprise integration, microservices, or distributed systems.

• Strong experience with API technologies (REST, GraphQL, JSON, XML)
• Proficiency in one or more languages (Java, .NET, Python, Node.js). Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred for MVP alignment).
• Familiarity with API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

• Exposure to AI/ML concepts and integration patterns (model serving, inference APIs)

Your key responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable RESTful and GraphQL APIs supporting enterprise applications and integrations
• Define API specifications, contracts, data models, and versioning strategies to ensure consistency and reusability
• Build high-performance, secure, and reusable API services aligned with microservices and cloud architecture.
• Design and integrate APIs that expose and consume AI/ML services, including predictive models and NLP solutions
• Enable intelligent automation, personalization, and data-driven use cases through API and AI integration
• Integrate APIs with backend systems, data platforms, and third-party services to support digital transformation initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams to translate business and AI use cases into scalable solutions
• Implement API security standards, including OAuth2 and JWT, ensuring data privacy, access control, and compliance with governance policies
• Optimize API performance, reliability, and scalability, including latency-aware design for real-time and batch AI workloads
• Develop and maintain API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger) and establish standards for API design, lifecycle management, and governance
• Contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by performing various responsibilities that may arise, reflecting our collective goal of enhancing healthcare delivery and being the difference for the customer.

Where you'll be:
Hybrid- Schenectady or Rochester, NY
Pay Transparency
MVP Health Care is committed to providing competitive employee compensation and benefits packages. The base pay range provided for this role reflects our good faith compensation estimate at the time of posting. MVP adheres to pay transparency nondiscrimination principles. Specific employment offers and associated compensation will be extended individually based on several factors, including but not limited to geographic location; relevant experience, education, and training; and the nature of and demand for the role.
We do not request current or historical salary information from candidates.
$93,667.00-$124,576.75
MVP's Inclusion Statement
At MVP Health Care, we believe creating healthier communities begins with nurturing a healthy workplace. As an organization, we strive to create space for individuals from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life to have a voice and thrive. Our shared curiosity and connectedness make us stronger, and our unique perspectives are catalysts for creativity and collaboration.
MVP is an equal opportunity employer and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes without discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, familial status, physical or mental disability, handicapping condition, medical condition, pregnancy status, predisposing genetic characteristics or information, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, military or veteran status, Vietnam-era or special disabled Veteran or other legally protected classifications.
To support a safe, drug-free workplace, pre-employment criminal background checks and drug testing are part of our hiring process. If you require accommodations during the application process due to a disability, please contact our Talent team at hr@mvphealthcare.com.