Senior Backend Developer

Merastar Insurance Company - Jacksonville, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Jacksonville, FL

5,001-10,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Senior Backend Developer at Kemper, you will provide technical consulting for application software development with a focus on creating highly performant and scalable applications for agent-facing platforms in the auto insurance sector. This role emphasizes collaboration with a team of experts to enhance user experience and ensure seamless integration of applications.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software on back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes.
• 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.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications specifically for agent-facing auto insurance platforms.
• Design and develop robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases.
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
• Performs code and design reviews.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.
• Establish or fine-tune CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Utilize company-approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency.
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand-ups.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot).
• At least 5 years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in back-end development and Open API on agent-facing applications and familiarity with the auto insurance industry.
• Knowledge or experience in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS is a plus.
• Software development experience (core language/framework: Java/Spring) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology.
• Proficiency with the latest version of Spring Boot framework.
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models.
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma, Mockito etc.).
• Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus.
• Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience in creating/configuring CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Ability to support multiple software applications.
• Ability to code, unit test and debug complex business applications.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus.
• Knowledge or experience in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS is a plus.

Benefits

• Qualify for your choice of health and dental plans within your first month.
• Save for your future with robust 401(k) match, Health Spending Accounts and various retirement plans.
• Learn and Grow with our Tuition Assistance Program, paid certifications and continuing education programs.
• Contribute to your community through United Way and volunteer programs.
• Balance your life with generous paid time off and business casual dress.
• Get employee discounts for shopping, dining and travel through Kemper Perks.