Software Engineer

American Family Insurance is seeking a Software Engineer to collaborate with others in providing and maintaining applications that meet business needs. The role involves designing and developing solutions, ensuring software development meets quality standards, and participating in team activities to achieve goals.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops solutions to the level of quality defined by the requirements in adherence with standards, methodology and internal controls
• Understands and identifies system dependencies
• Understands functionality, integration points and impacts of proposed changes to supporting applications
• Follows through with options and recommendations
• Provides appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards
• Defines, conducts, and/or participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration)
• Collaborates with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements
• Ensures software development meets standards for programming, design, performance, quality, and security
• Participates in team activities and taking on additional work tasks as needed to help the team accomplish the desired outcome or goals
• Creates, maintains, and/or enhances system documentation as needed

Skills

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• Basic knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies
• Basic knowledge and understanding of application architecture, design alternatives, and development standards
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language
• Demonstrated experience interpreting, modifying and writing application system design and program specifications
• Demonstrated experience using and supporting integration and communications technologies between applications, databases and technology platforms
• Demonstrated experience using relational databases and standard query language (SQL)
• Solid knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC)
• Solid knowledge and understanding of activities, tasks, tools and techniques for testing applications to ensure adherence to functional and quality requirements
• At least 1 to 3 years of experience providing customer-driven solutions
• Good knowledge of developing infrastructure as code using terraform
• Good understanding of developing applications using Java/Springboot, node.js and react.js
• Good knowledge of developing applications in at least one of the cloud platforms AWS or GCP

Benefits

• Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.
• New Employee Orientation during their first week.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
• Competitive 401(k) contribution
• A pension plan
• An annual incentive
• 9 paid holidays
• A paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
• Student loan repayment program
• Paid-family leave

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