Full Stack Java Developer

About the position

As a Full Stack Developer at Kemper, you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies. This role involves resolving complex technical issues, developing and executing unit tests, and collaborating with a team of experts to enhance innovative technologies. You will be responsible for leading projects, improving processes, and ensuring the optimal use of applications and technologies by internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software development or computing technologies within areas of expertise.
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
• Delivers quality and timely results.
• 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.
• Reviews and recommends test plans for impacted areas and test coverage.
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures.
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Performs code and design reviews.
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise.
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
• Develops technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise.
• Establishes or fine tunes CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• 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.
• Able to read other team members' code and pinpoint problems accurately.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect's implementation.
• Supports proof-of-concept activities.
• Develops technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software development using Java.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of a specific programming language.
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot).
• Front-end experience (HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications.
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs.
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON).
• Expert in JavaScript framework (Angular/React), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS.
• Knowledge of cloud development practices.
• 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 quickly learn new/emerging technologies and resolve any problems involved in integrating these new/emerging technologies with our systems.
• Ability to manage own time and prioritize activities and resources to deliver timely results.
• 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 influence events to achieve results.
• Originates independent action rather than passively reacting to events as they occur.
• Able to follow industry defined best practice development standards.
• Software development experience (core languages: Java and JavaScript) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology.
• Ability to develop/refactor clean, and well-designed code.
• Responsive Design, Debugging, and Testing.
• Strong understanding of testing patterns to support functional and performance tests.
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma/Jasmine, Mockito etc.).
• Experience with Container technology, and AWS.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (SonarQube / Veracode).
• Good SQL Server and Oracle database knowledge/experience.
• Experience in executing and supporting testing.
• Worked with various project methodologies (Agile and waterfall).
• Able to translate business to technical requirements.
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.
• Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred.
• Ability to address and analyze impact of system issues.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive customer service relationship and to identify and understand customers' needs.

Nice-to-haves

• Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred.