Mid-Level Software Engineer – UI/API Application Development

USAA•San Antonio, TX

3d•$93,770 - $179,240•Onsite

About The Position

Join USAA’s high-impact engineering team responsible for maintaining and evolving the Property Core Platform supporting homeowners, renters, and other Property insurance products. As a mid-level software engineer embedded within an Agile team, you will provide hands-on expertise in application development, production support, system integrations, testing, and platform enhancements across a portfolio of business-critical applications. The role calls for a collaborative engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, improving system reliability, and delivering high-quality solutions for members. You will contribute to modernization efforts and work alongside experienced engineers to strengthen platforms essential to the Property business. The position is based in San Antonio, Texas, and requires working in the office four days per week. Relocation assistance is not available. USAA’s mission is to empower members to achieve financial security through competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice, with the goal of being the #1 choice for the military community and their families. The company describes honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service as its core values and supports active-duty military spouses; remote or hybrid flexibility may be available to them consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or four years of relevant education and/or experience.
Four years of software development experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within one or more specific disciplines or technologies.
Two years of experience delivering technology solutions across all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle, including leading code/design reviews.
Basic understanding of one or more listed technologies, including AI-assisted software engineering; programming languages and web technologies; APIs and frameworks; source control, containers, cloud platforms, databases, testing tools, messaging systems, monitoring tools; or z/OS and mainframe technologies.
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.
Basic understanding of cloud technologies and tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience applying generative AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate software development, improve code quality, enhance production support, automate operational processes, support application modernization, and improve engineering productivity in complex enterprise environments.
Experience working across legacy and modern technology stacks, including PL/I, COBOL, CICS, DB2, mainframe, Java, AWS, and cloud-native platforms.
Proven success reducing technical debt while maintaining production stability and meeting business commitments.
Experience supporting operational health metrics, service-level objectives, service-level agreements, and production availability goals.
AWS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, SAFe Agile, Java, Cloud, or Security-related certifications.
Experience working across technologies ranging from mainframe and PL/I to AWS and cloud-native architectures.
Strong production support background with proven success resolving complex incidents and improving application reliability.
US military experience gained through military service or as a military spouse or domestic partner.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, code, and test complex technical solutions.
Investigate and resolve complex application and system technical problems and production issues using troubleshooting techniques.
Improve operations through complex systems analysis and recommendations for 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 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.