Mid-Level Software Engineer-Java/AWS

San Antonio, TX, United States

Why USAA?

Let’s do something that really matters.

At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.

We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service. They’re what guides everything we do from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Mid-Level Software Engineer-Java/AWS to join the Policy Modernization journey. We are building the first scalable Insurance Auto Policy product on Guidewire with integrations to multiple on premises and off premises vendors and creating the first unified Digital experience. This position plays a vital role towards building resilient application using emergent designs, clean code, and automated pipeline validations in an iterative agile development process. This role will work with multiple IT teams across the enterprise to enable the delivery of the solution in a complaint manner. Calling individuals that want to expand their horizon alongside energetic engineers and are able work hard to meet timelines and bring in the lively element along the way.

The right candidate would have rich technical expertise and high curiosity to take calculated risks to move the technology forward to achieve business objectives with time sensitive delivery execution and the zeal to experiment & learn with a passion to drive solutions. They would also be a self-starter who can collaborate towards building a “One team” spirit with continuous improvement.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week . This position is based out of the San Antonio or Plano, TX office. Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Provides support to the Enterprise through delivering best in class technology solutions. Engaged in all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle which include gathering and analyzing requirements, designing, testing, documenting, and implementing software, responding to outages.

What you'll do:

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.

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.

What you have:

Bachelor’s Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree.

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.

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.

What sets you apart:

Up to 3 years of experience in large AWS Cloud Migrations and or establishing new Cloud environments.

5+ years of Java Rest Services , REACT and Database technologies.

2+ years of experience designing and building of multi-tenant AWS Cloud IaaS Solutions employing design patterns of Serverless, events, messaging, distributed caching etc. using Spring, OpenShift, Kafka, BMC Control M

5+ years of CICD experience and building and maintaining software delivery pipelines using tools such as Gitlab and testing automation using JUnit/Mockito/Spring Test/Wiremock/Jest

2+ years hands on experience with Openshift on-prem deployments and EKS deployments in AWS into production

Upto 4 years on hands-on experience in Terraform development to facilitate auto provisioning infrastructure-as-code and using Artifactory repositories and Cloud Databases.

3+ Experience & understanding of multiple AWS technology and services like IaC, IAM, EKS, SQS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, Secrets Manager, Qlik, Macie, Datadog etc

Proficient in building monitoring and alerting dashboards employing strong SRE principles.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

What we offer:

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The salary range for this position is: $89,990- $172,000 .

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include 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, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you are an existing USAA employee, please use the internal career site in OneSource to apply.

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Find your purpose. Join our mission.

USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community. We do this by upholding the highest standards and ensuring that our corporate business activities and individual employee conduct reflect good judgment and common sense, and are consistent with our core values of service, loyalty, honesty and integrity.

USAA attributes its long-standing success to its most valuable resource: our 35,000 employees. They are the heart and soul of our member-service culture. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond: the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself – you just need to share our passion for serving our more than 13 million members.

USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.