Software Engineer - Mid level
About The Position
Provides support to the Enterprise by delivering reliable technology solutions for a business-critical P&C Auto policy administration platform. The role participates throughout the software systems and application development lifecycle, with an emphasis on Java and Spring Boot development, production troubleshooting, system stability, observability, resilience, refactoring, and performance optimization in a containerized OpenShift and Kubernetes environment. The position requires working in the office four days per week and may be based in San Antonio, Texas, or Plano, 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.
- Four years of software development experience demonstrating technical depth in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, or similar enterprise application technologies.
- Two years of experience delivering technology solutions in all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle, including leading code and design reviews.
- Experience developing and supporting containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Experience with event-driven architecture or messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Developing-level business acumen in business operations, risk management, industry practices, and emerging trends.
- Experience supporting efforts to address production issues through application and system troubleshooting.
- Experience articulating technical challenges and solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting applications that integrate with mainframe or other legacy technologies.
- Experience applying DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering practices to business-critical production applications.
- Experience with AWS technologies and services.
- Experience using automation or AI-assisted tools to improve engineering and production support processes.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, code, and test complex technical solutions.
- Investigate and resolve complex application and system technical problems and production issues through troubleshooting techniques.
- Improve operations by conducting complex systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
- Prepare and install complex solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
- Follow the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in design reviews and learn key system design principles.
- Mentor junior engineers and potentially begin mentoring peer engineers.
- Review teammates' code.
- Ensure risks associated with business activities are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k).
- Pension.
- Life insurance.
- Parental benefits.
- Adoption assistance.
- Paid time off program with paid holidays.
- 16 paid volunteer hours.
- Wellness programs.
- Career path planning and continuing education assistance.
- Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
