Associate Software Engineer - Member Experience Delivery (Open to hiring at the Software Engineer level) at Wellmark, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
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Jun 28, 2026
Des Moines, IA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level to early-career full-stack engineering role focused on building and maintaining digital products for health insurance members. Day-to-day work spans designing, developing, testing, and supporting software across the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js), with cloud work in AWS and CI/CD via GitHub Actions. The role suits a developer with under a year of experience who is comfortable working across front-end and back-end code in an Agile team.
Junior level · Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–80
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $126,460 (middle half $101,550–$140,390).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
This is explicitly an entry-level role: the Required section gates on 'Less than 1 year software development experience OR demonstrated success at an associate level,' making this a Junior position despite the full-stack framing.
The Required qualifications list programming languages as examples ('ex. Angular, NodeJS, TypeScript, C++, .NET, Java, SQL') — these are illustrative, not individually gated. Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, and SQL are retained as required because they are the most directly relevant to the stated MEAN stack focus and appear in the required section; C++, .NET, and Java are omitted as they appear to be generic examples of language knowledge rather than specific gates.
The full MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js), AWS, GitHub, and GitHub Actions are all listed under the Preferred section only, so they are marked as preferred despite being central to the role's description.
An Associate degree is listed as required, but the posting explicitly accepts 'direct and applicable work experience' as an equivalent alternative, so the degree requirement is set to None.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
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