Lead Software Engineer – UI/API Application Development
About The Position
USAA is hiring a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within an Agile team supporting its Property Core Platform, which serves homeowners, renters, and other Property insurance products. The role guides modernization, architectural improvements, production stability initiatives, and technology decisions that affect business outcomes and the member experience. The engineer will work across legacy and cloud platforms, partner with architects and business leaders, and help develop reliable, high-performing systems used by USAA members. This position calls for a servant leader who can navigate complex environments, mentor engineers, and drive solutions across organizational boundaries. The work environment is flexible but requires being in the office four days per week. The position is based in San Antonio, Texas; relocation assistance is not available.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or four years of relevant education and/or experience.
- Eight years of software development experience demonstrating technical depth in specific disciplines or technologies, including two years of demonstrated leadership driving enterprise technology projects or initiatives.
- Six years of experience delivering technology solutions across all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle.
- High proficiency in software engineering languages and tools, with the ability to develop on multiple platforms.
- Knowledge and advanced experience leading code and design reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot applications and systems to address complex production issues.
- Ability to quickly understand relevant business context and provide appropriate engineering solutions.
- Deep understanding of one or more listed technologies or technology areas, including AI-assisted software engineering and AI-powered applications; modern languages, frameworks, APIs, and cloud/container tools; or mainframe technologies and platforms.
- Demonstrated experience working with cloud technologies and tools.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting Property & Casualty insurance platforms and business processes.
- Experience supporting large-scale insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated business environments.
- Experience applying generative AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate development, improve code quality and production support, automate operations, modernize applications, and improve engineering productivity in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience developing, enhancing, and supporting enterprise-scale applications in complex production environments.
- Experience across legacy and modern technology stacks, including PL/I, COBOL, CICS, DB2, mainframe, Java, AWS, and cloud-native platforms.
- US military experience gained through military service or as a military spouse or domestic partner.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, code, and test complex tactical and strategic cross-functional technical solutions, collaborating with engineers or architects outside the team or department as needed.
- Lead in-depth code and design reviews, and communicate updates and impacts to stakeholders to support daily operations and planning across multiple teams.
- Organize work and lead multiple teams in delivering features and solutions.
- Independently resolve complex production issues and lead end-to-end troubleshooting across multiple applications and systems.
- Mentor and coach junior and experienced engineers, including on design principles.
- Work with architecture to help define directions for cross-functional or highly complex key and emerging technologies within a domain.
- Advance professional development through activities such as industry participation, publications, educational opportunities, networking, and professional societies.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices within the domain.
- Ensure business risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) and pension.
- Life insurance.
- Parental benefits.
- Adoption assistance.
- Paid time off, including paid holidays and 16 paid volunteer hours.
- Wellness programs.
- Career path planning and continuing education.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
