Applications Consultant

AAA-The Auto Club Group•MI-Admin Office Building (AOB), MI

8d•$115,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks. Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development and application integration. Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements. Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translate and implements business strategies into technology solutions. Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership. Assists Security team in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources. Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience.
designing, developing, implementing, or supporting complex to moderately complex information systems
building or supporting mainframe or distributed systems
identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business/technical problems
technology assessment, recommendations and selection
providing technical consultation/leadership to project teams
staffing, coordinating/leading a large project team or a variety of small project teams
budgeting and expense control
mainframe, distributed, and/or Web-based system design and development
database management systems
PC fundamental software tools
programming languages
prototyping
database design
project management tools and techniques
multi-platform capabilities
user interaction
HTML and web development tools
system development tools (e.g. Endevor, IMS Expert, Xpediter, SQA Team Test, Eclipse)
integration
relational database concepts
use cases, object oriented design and programming techniques
systems operation practices
security and control procedures
web server, and IP-level distributed technologies
evaluation of a complex system and understand the inter-dependencies between components
5+ years of software development experience.
3+ years of Angular development experience.
3+ years of Java, Spring Boot, and Python development experience with FastAPI.
Strong experience building and consuming REST APIs.
Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Strong SQL and database development skills.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Angular (v12+ preferred)
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3
Responsive Web Design
Java Spring Boot
Python FastAPI
REST API Development
OpenAPI / Swagger
Microservices Architecture
Oracle
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Data Modeling and Performance Tuning
Bitbucket
Jenkins
CI/CD Pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS, Azure, or GCP
REST APIs
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Event-Driven Architecture
Experience in an insurance environment or other service industry.
Ability to leverage AI tools for: Code generation and refactoring, Unit test creation, API documentation generation, Code review assistance, Troubleshooting and debugging, Productivity and developer acceleration
Basic understanding of: Generative AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI integration through APIs

Nice To Haves

Strong expertise in Angular front-end development, Java Spring Boot backend services, Python FastAPI, and modern API development.
Experience building scalable enterprise applications, cloud-native solutions, and leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
Terraform (Preferred)
GraphQL (Preferred)
Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as: GitHub Copilot⁠ ChatGPT Enterprise/OpenAI APIs⁠ Google Gemini Code Assist⁠

Responsibilities

Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks.
Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development and application integration.
Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements.
Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translate and implements business strategies into technology solutions.
Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership.
Assists Security team in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources.
Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget.
Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications using Angular, Spring Boot, and Python FastAPI.
Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend services.
Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces using Angular and TypeScript.
Design scalable, secure, and reusable API frameworks and integration patterns.
Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design sessions.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
Troubleshoot and resolve application performance and production issues.
Implement CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment practices.
Leverage AI-powered development tools to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.
Promote engineering best practices.
Build modern Angular front-end applications.
Develop Java Spring Boot and Python FastAPI backend services.
Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices.
Work within cloud-native and DevOps environments.
Contribute to future AI-enabled application initiatives while maintaining strong software engineering fundamentals.

Benefits

A competitive annual salary between $115,000 - $140,000.
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401k Match
Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Paid Time Off (PTO), company paid holidays, CEO days, and floating holidays
Paid volunteer day annually
Tuition assistance program, professional certification reimbursement program and other professional development opportunities
AAA Membership
Discounts, perks, and rewards and much more

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