Application Services - Software Engineer Lead

$89,742 - $159,585/Yr

Woodmenlife - Omaha, NE

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Omaha, NE

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

The Software Engineering Lead (.NET) at WoodmenLife is a pivotal role focused on leading a team of developers in the insurance industry. This position emphasizes servant leadership, mentoring, and fostering a growth mindset within the team. The lead will be responsible for overseeing technology implementations, improving processes, and ensuring quality delivery of software solutions. The role requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to best practices in software development.

Responsibilities

• Oversees, directs, and provides consultation on technology implementations and improvement activities for defined applications and teams.
• Build and refine the work backlog for technically focused deliverables.
• Leads scope of work estimation and forecasting for development stories and tasks.
• Collaborates with enterprise and solution architects on architectural decisions to ensure solutions are designed for successful implementation within the vision of the enterprise architecture.
• Create and maintain technical specifications, high-level design, and detailed design artifacts.
• Researches and stays current with technology and system design trends.
• Adheres to established architectural and security standards and best practices.
• Investigates and proposes solutions to development and design problems.
• Coaches and mentors less experienced software engineers.
• Consults/collaborates with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements.
• Consults/collaborates with other technical leaders to understand and implement non-functional requirements.
• Identifies and documents technical debt, advocates and builds actionable plans for its resolution.

Requirements

• 10 years of software development experience.
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
• Experience with relational databases, including database schema design and table management.
• Experience with Git.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information succinctly to various business and technical stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies.
• Ability to iteratively and incrementally improve both products and processes.
• Ability to engage well with others and be passionate about providing an exemplary customer experience.
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of SOLID principles.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements, processes, data, and system integration points to determine/recommend appropriate technology solutions.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing REST APIs & systems integration code in a scalable multiple system environment.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate and implement major changes in architecture and software development techniques/processes.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of proficiency in Microsoft C# and .Net 8.
• Experience with Entity Framework or similar ORM.
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC and Web API.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working on an Agile team.
• Experience designing and building software systems using the IDesign methodology.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, or Cloud Foundry.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies.
• Experience leveraging integration platforms and patterns.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities for community service and giving back
• Inclusive work environment that values diversity
• Professional development opportunities