R0121110 Senior Software Engineer – UI/API Application Development

USAA•San Antonio, TX

3d•$114,080 - $218,030•Onsite

About The Position

USAA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join an Agile team responsible for the stability, modernization, and future evolution of its Property Core Platform, which supports homeowners, renters, and other Property insurance products. The role provides hands-on expertise across applications and technologies, including legacy platforms, cloud technologies, integrations, production operations, platform modernization, and technical debt remediation. The engineer will collaborate with architects, product teams, and engineers to deliver reliable, resilient, high-performing systems supporting USAA members. The position requires working in the office four days per week and is based in San Antonio, Texas. Relocation assistance is not available. USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or four years of relevant education and/or experience.
Six years of software development experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding in one or more disciplines or technologies.
Four years of experience delivering technology solutions across all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle, including leading code and design reviews.
Deep understanding of one or more listed technology areas, including AI-assisted software engineering and AI-powered applications; modern programming languages, APIs, frameworks, cloud and container platforms, databases, testing and messaging tools; or mainframe technologies and related development and operations tools.
Experience researching technical issues and generating creative or innovative solutions.
Experience troubleshooting applications and systems to address production issues.
Ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions.
Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and secure system fundamentals.
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 to accelerate software development, improve code quality, enhance production support, automate operations, support application modernization, and improve engineering productivity in complex enterprise environments.
Experience developing, enhancing, and supporting enterprise-scale applications in complex production environments.
Experience working 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 technical solutions across a range of technologies, integrating existing systems and tools in collaboration with engineers and architects.
Lead code and design reviews and communicate updates to stakeholders to support daily operations and accurate planning.
Develop complex algorithms to address business needs.
Investigate and resolve complex application, system, and production issues by directing end-to-end troubleshooting.
Mentor and coach engineers on system design, development, and maintenance, and review teammates’ code.
Help shape domain architecture and quality standards, and understand and measure quality across the solution.
Identify system performance issues and technical debt, and optimize solutions.
Ensure business risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.