Engineering Team Lead

AAA Life Insurance Company • Livonia, MI

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

AAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a highly skilled and technically strong Engineering Team Lead to serve as the go-to technical coach, solution designer, and daily mentor within our agile product delivery teams. This is a player-coach role focused on guiding engineers, shaping solutions, enforcing technical best practices, and ensuring delivery quality, without direct people management responsibilities
The ideal candidate will possess deep software engineering expertise, a passion for quality, and the leadership presence to influence and elevate others around them. This individual will be critical in driving forward our modernization efforts, improving team execution, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
• Strong expertise in modern development frameworks and platforms (Java, .NET, Spring Boot, React/Angular, REST APIs, cloud-native).
• Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), DevOps, and modern CI/CD toolchains (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Proven ability to lead through influence, drive decision-making, and mentor peers without formal authority.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience modernizing legacy systems and integrating with enterprise platforms (e.g., FAST, Guidewire, or similar) is a plus.
• Preferred past experience in Insurance or Finance Industry.
• Experience in managing the technical contributions of third-party vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example in technical execution, architecture decisions, and quality standards across backend, frontend, and integration workstreams.
• Serve as technical mentor and daily coach to a cross-functional team of engineers, offering code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on support.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Act as a bridge between architecture and delivery, helping to implement future-state patterns and decompose legacy systems.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure coding.
• Identify and escalate technical blockers and risks early, proposing options and tradeoffs.
• Participate in solutioning sessions, backlog refinement, and sprint planning as a technical authority and delivery advocate.
• Contribute actively to the engineering community of practice at AAA Life, helping elevate coding standards and shared knowledge.

Benefits

• A collaborative, energetic work environment where you can put your passion for people to work
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability coverage available day one
• Pension Plan
• Performance-based incentive plan
• 401k available with a Company match
• Holidays and Paid Time Off
• AAA Basic Membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level