Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Why AAA Life

AAA Life is a respected and trusted American brand that has been focusing on Life Insurance and Annuity Products since 1969.  At AAA Life we have over 1.8 million policies where we take pride in earning the trust of our policyholders who understand our promise to be there for them – and their families – when we’re needed most.  By joining the AAA Life team, you are joining a company that genuinely cares about helping each other, with a devotion to protect the lives of those around us.   We embrace a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture where all associates can feel a sense of belonging and use their unique talents and perspective to influence, innovate, motivate, and thrive.

How You’ll Work

Work Solution: Hybrid (Tuesday- Thursday) or Remote (USA)

Relocation Eligibility: Available 

AAA Life’s Integration and Platform Services team owns the enterprise control plane for APIs and events: a single, governed surface that centralizes security, contract governance, observability and operational controls across legacy and modern systems. 

We’re hiring a seasoned, hands-on senior software engineer to design, build and operate that integration platform — owning architecture, vendor selection, POCs, production readiness, and operational excellence. You will be a technical leader for the integration layer and a primary technical partner to: DevOps, Security, Data, and the Transformation Office.  

You will help stand up an event-first, API-first integration overlay (managed event bus + schema registry, API gateway, transactional patterns, connector/streaming layer), implement enterprise observability and SLOs, and lead the modernization efforts.   

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing, writing and maintaining application software on premise or on cloud that is scalable, predictable, high-quality and high-performance to support our business needs in an Agile environment with minimal supervision.  They are responsible for guiding the technical team on various technical, process and applications as a Subject Matter Expert. Senior Software Engineer provides technical design and solutions in specific applications and technologies and ensures proper planning, meeting schedules and solution delivery that meet design specifications while adhering to the AAA Life application development standards.  Senior Software Engineer will work on multiple work streams/program teams and assist other developers and project managers.  

Responsibilities

Development Practices  

• 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 

Project Responsibilities  

• Translates and implements 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 
• Thoroughly understand the Requirements and Design 
• Conduct module/system wide technical analysis 
• Understand the full project architecture and able explain to the team 
• Conduct module level work break down and effort estimations  
• Estimate the planned work and complete the estimated work on time  
• 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 
• Offer options and/or remove technical hurdles/impediments 
• Proactively conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager  
• Collaborate with the team in mitigating the project risks 
• Periodically support applications outside of normal business hours 

Leadership Responsibilities 

• Provides the perspective of an acknowledged expert or specialist in selected technology and application area 
• Assist in the motivating, mentoring and coaching of team members.   
• Provide technical direction on multiple projects with assistance from Development Manager and Technical Lead when necessary 
• Promptly escalate issues, which affect delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence of this role to Technical Lead and management/PM  
• Will work with guidance from Architect/Technical Lead/PM 
• Assist PM in project/technical coordination as needed 

Qualifications

Required Education/Experience 

• 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.

Preferred Experience 

•  Prior experience migrating or decommissioning batch-driven systems and implementing strangler/dual-run patterns.  
• Experience with schema registries, contract testing, and event replay tooling.  
• Experience with CI/CD automation at scale (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.) and templated IaC for multi-account/cloud environments.  
• Experience working with vendor partners and procurement / milestone-based contracting.  
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and defining organizational patterns for platform-as-a-product . 

Work Environment 

Works in a temperature-controlled environment. 

Essential Job Functions 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements.  Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants as needed to enable them to fulfill these requirements. 

AAA Life Insurance Company does not offer immigration sponsorship for this position. This includes visa types such as H-1B, TN, and STEM OPT. Please do not apply if you currently require or may require employer-sponsored immigration support now or in the future.

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