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Responsibilities
- Design and build core platform services, product rules, calculation services, APIs, and AI-agent interfaces.
- Translate business and actuarial requirements into scalable, accurate, auditable, and secure software systems.
- Write and review production code, build prototypes, lead design reviews, document technical decisions, and resolve complex implementation challenges.
- Partner with Product, Actuarial, Operations, and engineering teams to align designs, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
- Establish controls for permissions, validation, safeguards, data integrity, security, auditability, and reliable operations.
- Use AI coding agents through task decomposition, orchestration, automated validation, testing, and review gates while remaining accountable for the output.
- Strengthen automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release controls, production readiness, and incident-prevention practices.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and pairing, and simplify solutions through sound technical trade-offs.
Requirements
- 6+ years of designing, building, and operating production software systems or relevant professional experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated success guiding complex technical designs and delivering software with experienced engineering teams.
- Expertise using multiple AI coding agents for production software, including decomposition, orchestration, automated validation, review, and troubleshooting of generated code.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native, distributed, API-first systems and technologies such as Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
- Experience developing AI-agent interfaces and controls, including tool or Model Context Protocol integrations, permissions, safeguards, and evaluations.
- Experience with rules engines, calculation or pricing services, annuity and retirement products, or highly regulated environments is a plus.
- Strong attention to accuracy, security, auditability, and data integrity, along with clear written communication, critical thinking, adaptability, influence, and mentoring ability.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Candidates may be considered at multiple levels based on skills and experience.
Benefits
- Inclusive and dynamic work environment with opportunities to help build Athene’s founding engineering team in Austin.
- Military Friendly Employer and commitment to equal employment opportunity.
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About Athene
Athene provides retirement services, offering retail fixed, fixed indexed, and registered index-linked annuities to individuals and reinsurance of fixed annuities to other insurers. It also sells institutional products such as funding agreements and pension group annuity solutions. Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, Athene operates in the U.S., Bermuda, Canada, and Japan and is a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management.