Lead Application Development Engineer – Payment Technology
American Family Insurance8 days ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$131k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of secure, scalable payment applications from early concepts and architecture through implementation and production.
- Modernize legacy solutions using cloud-native application architectures and lead development for complex or high-risk capabilities.
- Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and business teams to define designs, delivery plans, integrations, and migration strategies.
- Set engineering standards for design, testing, security, observability, performance, documentation, and production readiness.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, influence stakeholders, and connect technical work to customer and business outcomes.
- Analyze and estimate software solution effort and develop alternative delivery and design approaches.
Requirements
- Approximately 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, or enterprise solution delivery.
- At least 7+ years of experience with Java, Spring Boot, or comparable backend technologies.
- At least 5+ years of experience building and deploying cloud-native applications, ideally on AWS.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, legacy or high-volume transactional applications, and relevant AWS services.
- Experience with containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, security, and resilient production operations.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring, architecture and code reviews, stakeholder influence, and delivery of customer-focused outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of software development and design standards, infrastructure technologies, operating systems, SDLC, application architecture, and integration and migration strategies.
- Ability to use approved AI-assisted tools or cloud AI services to improve engineering quality and efficiency.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 10 days per month in the Madison, Wisconsin or Boston, Massachusetts office.
- Relocation support is available for eligible candidates.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellbeing benefits.
- 401(k) contribution, pension plan, annual incentive, 9 paid holidays, and 23 days of accrued paid time off annually for full-time employees.
- Student loan repayment program and paid-family leave.
- Offer is contingent on applicable background checks and signing a non-disclosure agreement.
- New employees attend an in-person orientation during their first week, with some sessions potentially delivered virtually.
- Up to 10% travel is required.