• Design and implement multi-file coding tasks across bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and testing • Write clear natural-language specifications and reference implementations • Develop and extend unit and integration test suites • Review peer-generated tasks for correctness, clarity, and realism • Identify edge cases, ambiguities, and potential failure modes • Ensure alignment between specifications, code, and expected outputs

The Reviewing Dentist for appeal claims is a licensed dental professional who completes clinical reviews of dental claim appeals to determine benefit assignment in accordance with Guardian clinical guideline criteria. The role focuses on benefit determination (not treatment recommendations) and supports consistent, fair application of dental policy. Responsibilities also include assigned peer‑to‑peer and provider outreach calls. This position reports to the Assistant Dental Director. Schedule: 24 hours/week. Key Responsibilities Clinical Appeals Review - Independently review appealed claims and clinical documentation. - Apply clinical criteria, dental policy, and benchmarks to ensure consistent, defensible decisions. - Document clear clinical rationale to support decisions, compliance, and audits. - Escalate cases as needed to the Dental Director/leadership. - Communicate openly, demonstrate self-awareness, and incorporate feedback. - Participate in monthly updates, quarterly IRR exercises, and required calibration sessions. - Support implementation of new review policies/criteria as directed. - Meet production, accuracy, and performance standards. Peer‑to‑Peer Communications - Conduct peer‑to‑peer communications with treating providers (phone and/or written) to explain documentation‑based clinical determinations. - Communicate decisions clearly and professionally, with a focus on transparency and provider understanding. - Support positive provider relationships through thoughtful, clinically grounded communication. - Conduct provider outreach calls to request missing documentation and/or communicate review outcomes. Vendor & Cross‑Functional Collaboration - Partner, as needed, with an external clinical review vendor to align documentation standards, clinical interpretation, and review quality. - Collaborate with Dental Claims, Network, Product, Compliance, and Quality partners to support clinical operations. - Provide clinical input on appeal trends, documentation gaps, and process improvement opportunities. Qualifications - DDS or DMD from an accredited dental school. - Active, unrestricted dental license in at least one U.S. state. - Minimum 5+ years of clinical dental experience. - Prior experience in dental claims clinical review. - Utilization review, clinical appeals, managed care, or similar experience preferred. - Ability to render sound clinical decisions based on submitted documentation, clinical criteria, and industry standards. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including peer‑to‑peer communications via phone and email. Salary Range: $103,450.00 - $169,960.00 The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation. Our Promise At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards. Inspire Well-Being As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits. Equal Employment Opportunity Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. 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• A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams • Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders • Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results • A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels • Comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments • Pick up new technology and switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss • Are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems • Are a solid engineer with the desire and ability to learn how to design scalable, maintainable, and resilient modern software architectures • Have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud (preferably in AWS) • Are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks • Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

• Architect Real-Time Solutions: Design and implement highly scalable, event-driven architectures to support live-streaming data, interactive fan experiences, and real-time notifications. • Lead with Technical Excellence: Develop robust, type-safe backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, ensuring maximum performance and maintainability. • Manage Live Connections: Leverage Socket.IO to manage millions of persistent connections, ensuring seamless data flow between the server and global client-side applications. • Optimize Data Distribution: Implement and manage Redis Pub/Sub patterns to synchronize state across distributed server instances and handle high-velocity messaging. • Infrastructure & Scaling: Collaborate with DevOps to ensure services are resilient to traffic spikes (e.g., major sporting events or breaking news) and can scale horizontally.