Lead Cloud-Native Payments Engineer

American Family Insurance Agency Staff

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 131,000 - 220,000

Full time

10 days ago
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Job summary

American Family Insurance is seeking a Lead Application Development Engineer to drive the technical direction of secure, scalable payment applications. You will modernize legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, guiding design, delivery plans, and production readiness.

The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership across product, architecture, and engineering teams. You will mentor engineers, influence decisions, and leverage AI-enabled tools and cloud services to improve

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • Approximately 10+ years in software engineering.
  • 7+ years with Java/Spring Boot or comparable backend tech.
  • 5+ years building and deploying cloud-native apps on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction for secure, scalable payment applications from concept to production.
  • Modernize legacy solutions with cloud-native, microservices, API, event-driven patterns.
  • Translate business needs into scalable technical designs and delivery plans.
  • Lead development for complex capabilities and resolve integration challenges.
  • Set standards for engineering excellence across design, testing, security and production readiness.
  • Mentor engineers and align work with customer/business outcomes.

Skills

Customer-driven solutions
Complex software understanding
Technical leadership
Estimating project size
Technical guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS
Spring Boot
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Observability

Job description

American Family Insurance is seeking a Lead Application Development Engineer to drive the technical direction of secure, scalable payment applications. You will modernize legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, guiding design, delivery plans, and production readiness.

The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership across product, architecture, and engineering teams. You will mentor engineers, influence decisions, and leverage AI-enabled tools and cloud services to improve

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