Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at AAA Life Insurance Company

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Grafana, Java, Jenkins, JUnit, Maven, Postgres, Prometheus, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Livonia, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer at AAA Life designing, building, and operating integration platforms. Leading technical architectures and mentoring teams in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain & enhance the automated build and deploy process for applications
• Develop deploy instructions and work with the team to achieve regular successful deployments
• Design and implement automated unit testing framework as required
• Conduct thorough unit testing using the automated unit test framework
• Follows all AAA Life security and compliance requirements
• Translate and implement business requirements into creative technology solutions
• Take ownership of technical aspects of the project including infrastructure aspects as it relates to the project and drive to completion
• Conduct module/system wide technical analysis
• Conduct module level work break down and effort estimations
• Mentor team members in estimation process and assist in completing the tasks per plan
• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, enhance and document components developed by self and others as per the requirements and design
• Participate in project design reviews and provide feedback
• Conduct peer-reviews
• Use best practices and coding standards and help improve the existing company standards
• Proactively conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager
• Collaborate with the team in mitigating the project risks

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10 or more year’s engineering experience creating and/or maintaining large scale systems
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java
• Experience Integrating with multiple systems and web services to create a solution for business needs
• Application Performance Tuning, Application Server Configuration and Tuning, Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab, Cache, Junit
• SQL and embedded SQL programming
• Sound knowledge of design patterns and frameworks
• Sound knowledge of unit testing methodologies and frameworks
• Experience with application architecture concepts and/or certification
• Hands-on experience with API gateway patterns and Open API (design, generation, and schema governance)
• Demonstrated experience implementing distributed tracing and centralized observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar)
• Strong cloud platform experience (AWS preferred): CKD/Terraform, ECS/Fargate or Lambda, ECR, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana
• Proven track record leading POCs, standing up production platforms, and carrying platform capabilities from design to runbook/operation.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities