Lead Application Development Engineer
| Company | American Family Insurance Group |
|---|---|
| Location | Madison, WI, USA, Boston, MA, USA |
| Salary | $128000 – $216000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical information
- Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers
- Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions
- Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced staff
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC)
- Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives
- Solid knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies
Responsibilities
- Provides expertise during the initial phases of the project including estimating resources, skill requirements, time requirements, identifying tools and technologies, participating in proof of concepts, etc.
- Analyzes high level system specifications, business requirements and/or use cases
- Converts information into the appropriate level specifications and system design plan for the development team
- Understands and identifies system dependencies
- Consults with others to validate complex design decisions
- Provides advanced coding expertise to mitigate high risk features or technical challenges
- Provides appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards
- Defines, conducts, mentors others, and/or participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration)
- Prepares, leads and/or participates in development walkthroughs
- Collaborates with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on experience crafting and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises
- 5+ years of experience in the Payments domain, with a good understanding of payment processing, wallet management and integrating with 3rd party payment processors
- Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & standard methodologies for the SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Own and operationalize the critical metrics for Payments, building industry leading telemetry/logging to resolve state and health for the applications you own
- Lead research and initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS
- Build enterprise architecture and influence coding standards (scalable, performant, readable, and tested code) and ensure your code reviews set the bar for the rest of the team
- Strong experience in Java and Spring Framework
- Demonstrated experience in Git/GitLab for source code control, branching, bug tracking, and CI/CD pipelines