Staff Software Engineer

Description

The company is a technology platform for life and annuities, offering enterprise software and data insights that help people buy, sell and administer insurance products.

The company manages over $180 billion in assets under administration, works with more than 100 carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and supports over 2 million policyholders.

Responsibilities

• Set API standards and best practices for the company's enterprise APIs, and document them.
• Work with the API management team to build gateway features including traceability, monitoring, security and analytics.
• Design and upkeep the next generation of the company's enterprise search, with natural language support that scales across many resources and datasets.
• Build and maintain new and existing enterprise APIs using a mix of architectures and languages.
• Learn the current software development and deployment lifecycle used by the API management team, and suggest and help make improvements.
• Build an inventory of existing APIs.
• Create and maintain the developer portal for enterprise APIs.
• Automate unit, functional, integration and contract tests for all internal and external APIs.
• Write code that is high quality, scalable, maintainable and performant.
• Review code to keep quality and maintainability high.
• Make technical decisions and guide the development team.
• Integrate the enterprise identity and access management (IAM) solution across all internal and external APIs.

Requirements

• The role is Staff API Developer. You will design, document and maintain enterprise APIs following industry best practices and standards. You will work alongside other engineers to build gateway capabilities and automate them so other the company teams can consume them. You will also work with the API management team to create and implement a CI/CD process for deploying enterprise APIs and gateway capabilities.
• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building and deploying in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience with.NET, Java or TypeScript.
• Experience with API gateways such as Apigee or Kong.
• Working knowledge of common DevOps tasks: environment provisioning, CI/CD pipelines and application monitoring. Bonus: working knowledge of fully containerized environments.
• Strong work ethic. Able to work and travel independently, with solid strategic thinking.
• Expert communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills, and expert troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment.
• Strong grasp of software development principles and design patterns.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining versioned APIs.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, EC2 and S3.
• Keep up with the latest trends and technologies in API development.

Conditions

Equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

A privacy notice for California residents is available from the company.

Benefits

• Career progression and competitive pay.
• Health and dental insurance, parental leave, 401(k), incentive and bonus opportunity, and tuition reimbursement, among other benefits.
• You will work alongside capable, creative colleagues building new technology, deeper data insights and better services for the insurance industry.