Why AAA Life

AAA Life is a respected and trusted American brand that has been focusing on Life Insurance and Annuity Products since 1969.  At AAA Life we have over 1.8 million policies where we take pride in earning the trust of our policyholders who understand our promise to be there for them – and their families – when we’re needed most.  By joining the AAA Life team, you are joining a company that genuinely cares about helping each other, with a devotion to protect the lives of those around us.   We embrace a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture where all associates can feel a sense of belonging and use their unique talents and perspective to influence, innovate, motivate, and thrive.

How You’ll Work

Work Solution: Hybrid (Tuesday- Thursday) or Remote (USA)

Relocation Eligibility: Available 

The Software Engineer I designs, writes and maintains application software that is scalable, predictable, high-quality and high-performance to support our business needs in an agile environment. The primary responsibility for this role includes high quality development on cloud or on premise, delivery, analysis and resolution of technical issues and participation in the continuous enhancement of established development processes. The Software Engineer I is also responsible for designing and building application software with minimal supervision.   

The Software Engineer collaborates with the team to ensure proper planning; meeting development schedules and the delivered solution meets the business requirements and design specifications while adhering to the AAA Life development standards.  

The Software Engineer I will work closely with other more senior members of the team to learn the various components of the enterprise systems at AAA Life Insurance.  

Development Practices  

• Maintain & enhance the automated build and deploy process for applications 
• Develop deploy instructions and work with the team to achieve regular successful deployments  
• Design and implement automated unit testing framework as required  
• Conduct thorough unit testing using the automated unit test framework 
• Follows all AAA Life security and compliance requirements 

Position Responsibilities  

• Translates and implements business requirements into creative technology solutions 
• Take ownership of technical aspects of the project and drive to completion 
• Thoroughly understand the Requirements and Design 
• Understand and help guide the full system architecture  
• Be responsible for estimating your work and influencing timelines 
• Develop, maintain, debug, enhance and document components developed by self and others as per the requirements and design  
• Participate in project design reviews  
• Conduct peer-reviews  
• Use best practices and coding standards and help improve the existing company standards 
• Offer options and/or remove technical hurdles/impediments 
• Proactively conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager  
• Collaborate with the team in mitigating the project risks 
• Periodically support applications outside of normal business hours 

Required Education/Experience 

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, or related engineering field. 

• 2 years of hands-on software development experience; internships, co-ops, academic projects, or open-source contributions welcome.  

• Experience with version control (Git) and basic CI/CD concepts.  

• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java.

• Experience Integrating with multiple systems and web services to create a solution for business needs. 

• Comfortable working in Agile teams and using standard collaboration tools (issue trackers, code review platforms).  

• Basic exposure to containerization (Docker), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), or orchestration technologies.  

Preferred Experience 

• Exposure to unit testing and automated test frameworks.  

• Sound knowledge of HTTP and other network protocols.  

• Experience with application Performance Tuning, Application Server Configuration and Tuning. 

• Experience working with Application servers like Tomcat, JBoss or WebSphere. 

• Understand PCI DSS compliance requirements and knowledge in remediating security vulnerabilities. 

• Experienced in Agile software development practices, i.e. product/project development lifecycle, process, and tools. (JIRA/Rally). 

Work Environment 

Works in a temperature-controlled environment. 

Essential Job Functions 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements.  Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants as needed to enable them to fulfill these requirements. 

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