1 day ago
Plano, TX, USA or San Antonio, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$127k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of complex Java applications, APIs, and event-driven services.
- Resolve complex production issues across applications, integrations, and systems through root-cause analysis and coordinated troubleshooting.
- Establish technical direction for application stability, performance, resilience, security, supportability, technical debt reduction, and incident blast-radius reduction.
- Lead code and design reviews, communicate technical impacts, and organize engineering work across teams.
- Improve observability through logging, monitoring, dashboards, metrics, and alerting.
- Guide refactoring and optimization in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift environments.
- Mentor and coach engineers on software design, secure development, production troubleshooting, Site Reliability Engineering practices, and system maintenance.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering and production support through automation, DevOps practices, and AI-assisted capabilities.
- Identify, measure, monitor, and control risks in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
- At least 8 years of software development experience with technical depth in Java, Spring Boot, APIs, or similar enterprise application technologies, including 2 years leading enterprise technology projects or initiatives.
- At least 6 years delivering technology solutions across all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle.
- Advanced experience developing, deploying, and supporting containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Experience independently leading complex production issue resolution through root-cause analysis and end-to-end troubleshooting.
- Experience leading code and design reviews and guiding application refactoring and optimization.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Experience leading application observability improvements using Kibana, Datadog, or similar tools.
- Ability to provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and communicate technical challenges, risks, and solutions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with mainframe or legacy technology integrations, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices, AWS, automation or AI-assisted tools, and regulated industries such as financial services or insurance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k), pension, and life insurance.
- Parental benefits and adoption assistance.
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and 16 paid volunteer hours.
- Wellness programs, career path planning, and continuing education assistance.
- Flexible work environment with four days per week in the office; position based in San Antonio, Texas, or Plano, Texas.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
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About USAA
USAA is a membership-based financial services company serving U.S. military members, veterans, and their families with banking, insurance, and investment products. It offers auto, home, and life insurance; checking and savings; credit cards; loans; and retirement and brokerage services, delivered primarily online and by phone. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it is privately held and built around a member-owned insurance exchange and affiliated financial subsidiaries.