Mobile Software Developer - Mid Level

About the position

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful. We are the core Mobile App Engineering team for P&C organization at USAA. We build the iOS and Android mobile apps servicing member needs across all lines of P&C business – Home, Auto, Renters etc. As a member of our highly visible and dynamic community of developers and innovators, you will tackle a broad and evolving spectrum of business targets to provide outstanding impacts for our members and innovate within the product development lifecycle and ensure that our engineering practices propel us to meet market demands. The developer will be responsible for defining and driving all needs arising from mobile ecosystem including development of new features with native iOS and Android SDK’s, maintaining existing code, troubleshooting and problem solving vulnerabilities and production issues, developing new API’s and integrations with other systems in USAA (and external) spanning P&C, Billing and key insurance domains. This team is the backbone of member facing experiences at USAA, and we hope you join us on the frontier. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, code, and test complex technical solutions
• Investigates and resolves complex application and system technical problems and production issues through troubleshooting techniques.
• Continually improves operations by conducting complex systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Prepares and installs complex solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Follows the software development lifecycle.
• Participates in design reviews and learns key system design principles.
• Mentors junior engineers and may begin mentoring peer engineers; Review teammates’ code.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree OR Approved certification from CodeUp, Galvanize, VetFIT (Veterans for IT) or eFIT (Employees for IT).
• 4 years of software development experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s).
• 2 years of experience delivering technology solutions in all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle to include leading code/design reviews.
• Basic Understanding of one or more of the following: Java, Swift, Objective-C, Cobol, JavaScript, Kotlin, C++, HTML, CSS, SQL, Go, and Python.
• Developing level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.
• Experience supporting efforts to address production issues through troubleshooting applications and systems.
• Experience articulating technical challenges and solutions.
• Basic understanding of cloud technologies and tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Apple and Android native development, ability to develop compelling mobile apps delighting our members.
• Experience with Swift, SwiftUI, Java/Kotlin and debugging memory and performance issues.
• Experience with development of REST API’s and building integrations with internal systems and third parties.
• Experience writing unit, automated UI and regression tests e.g. XCTest, Postman, Junit, QTest.
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, good written and verbal communication.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k)
• Pension
• Life insurance
• Parental benefits
• Adoption assistance
• Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
• Various wellness programs
• Career path planning and continuing education assistance.