AF Application Development Engineer (Flex Home/Office)

In this position, you will work collaboratively with diverse team members across the division to develop and maintain applications that address a wide range of business needs. You will report to a senior manager and be responsible for designing and developing software solutions for moderate to complex business challenges, while also providing technical guidance for specific applications.

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Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

• You will analyze high-level system specifications, system requirements, and/or use cases.
• You will convert information into low-level specifications and system design plans.
• You will have an understanding of and the ability to identify system dependencies.
• You will provide appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organizational standards.
• You will define, conduct, and/or participate in testing (e.g., unit, system integration).
• You will prepare, lead, and/or participate in development walkthroughs.
• You will collaborate with others regarding the effectiveness of systems flow, data usage, and manual or automated processes to verify requirements.
• You will ensure software development meets standards for programming, design, performance, quality, and security.
• You will identify and recommend areas for improvement in planning, design, development, and testing.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of application architecture, design alternatives, and development standards.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, using and supporting integration and communications technologies between applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience writing and modeling application system design and program specifications.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%.

Physical Requirements

• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• You have demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions for highly available and scalable systems.
• You have proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Web Services, and experience in building event-driven micro-services.
• You have demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.
• You have good experience and understanding of Cloud technologies.

In this primarily office-based role, you will be expected to spend at least 80% of your time (4+ days per week) working from one of the following office location(s): Madison, WI 53783; Boston, MA 02110

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We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.