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As a Backend Developer, you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies, with a strong focus on developing highly performant and scalable applications that ensure an excellent user experience. You will primarily work on agent-facing applications, ensuring they are easy to use and meet the needs of our agents. You will collaborate with a team of experts passionate about innovative and result-driven technologies, continuously learning and growing together.

Position Responsibilities

• Technical Consulting and Support
  • Provides technical consulting and support for application software on back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes.
  • Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
  • Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives.
  • Supports proof-of-concept activities.
• Development and Testing
  • Design, Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications specifically for agent-facing auto insurance platforms.
  • Design and develop robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases.
  • Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
  • Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and test coverage.
  • Performs code and design reviews.
  • Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
  • Able to read other team members’ code and pinpoint problems accurately.
  • Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.
  • Establish or fine tune CI/CD pipelines and practices.
  • Utilize company approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency.
• Project Leadership and Management
  • Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
  • Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise.
  • Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
  • Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
  • Delivers quality and timely results.
• Collaboration and Communication
  • Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization.
  • Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand ups.
  • Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Research and Innovation
  • Researches, evaluates, and recommends recent technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation.
• Compliance
  • Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures.

Position Qualifications

• Education and Certification
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• Experience
  • At least 5 years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in back-end development and Open API on agent-facing applications and familiarity with the auto insurance industry.
  • Software development experience (core language/framework: Java/Spring) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology
  • Worked with various project methodologies (Agile and waterfall).
  • Proficiency with the latest version of Spring Boot framework.
  • Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models.
  • Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma, Mockito etc.)
  • Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus.
  • Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML.
  • Experience in creating/configuring CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana
  • Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (SonarQube / Veracode)
  • Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred.
• Technical Skills
  • Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of a specific programming language.
  • Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot)
  • Strong understanding of testing patterns to support functional and performance tests
  • Ability to support multiple software applications.
  • Ability to code, unit test and debug complex business applications.
  • Ability to write systems design specifications for complex applications.
  • Ability to develop/refactor clean, and well-designed code.
  • Able to follow industry defined best practice development standards.
  • Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.
  • Knowledge or experience in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS is a plus.
  • Knowledge or experience in front-end technologies (HTML5, Material/Tailwinds/CSS3) developing responsive designed applications is a plus.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
  • Ability to gather and analyze complex facts and data and to draw correct inferences from the information. Assesses alternatives and presents logical solutions to problems.
  • Ability to address and analyze impact of system issues.
• Communication and Collaboration
  • Ability to communicate (verbal and written) complex technical concepts to Information Technology, other Business Units and stakeholders in ways each group will understand.
  • Able to translate business to technical requirements.
  • Ability to create and maintain a positive customer service relationship and to identify and understand customers’ needs. Maintains two-way communication to deliver products and services that meet customer expectations.
• Time Management and Adaptability
  • Ability to manage own time and prioritize activities and resources to deliver timely results.
  • Ability to quickly learn new/emerging technologies and resolve any problems involved in integrating these new/emerging technologies with our systems.
  • Ability to influence events to achieve results. Originates independent action rather than passively reacting to events as they occur.