R0121110 Senior Software Engineer - UI/API Application Development

USAA Life Insurance Company; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company in San Antonio, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer embedded in an Agile team. You will provide hands-on expertise across legacy platforms, modern cloud technologies, integrations, and modernization efforts to deliver reliable systems for millions of members.

The role requires ownership, collaboration with architects and product teams, and the ability to work across technologies from PL/I to AWS. Office four days a week in San Antonio with hybrid flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of software development experience.
• 4 years delivering technology solutions across the SDLC including code/design reviews.
• Deep understanding of listed technologies and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and production support.
• Experience with cloud technologies and modern development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, code, and test complex solutions across many technologies.
• Lead code/design reviews and communicate updates to stakeholders.
• Develop complex algorithms to meet business needs.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor engineers and review teammates' code.
• Influence domain architecture and quality standards.
• Identify and address performance issues and technical debt.
• Ensure risk and compliance policies are followed.

Skills

Software development

Code reviews

Cloud technologies

Security coding

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

Join a high-impact engineering team responsible for the stability, modernization, and future evolution of USAA's Property Core Platform, which supports homeowners, renters, and other Property insurance products. As a Senior Software Engineer embedded within an Agile team, you will provide hands‑on expertise across a diverse portfolio of applications spanning legacy platforms, modern cloud technologies, integrations, production operations, platform modernization, and technical debt remediation.

We are looking for a collaborative software engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, takes ownership of outcomes, and is passionate about building reliable solutions that serve our members every day. This is an opportunity to work across technologies ranging from PL/I to AWS, contribute to large-scale modernization initiatives, influence the future state of critical insurance platforms, and partner with architects, product teams, and engineers to deliver resilient, high‑performing systems that support millions of members and their families.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in the following location: San Antonio, TX.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, code, and test complex tactical as well as strategic technical solutions across many technologies, including emerging technologies to integrate existing systems and tools, collaborating with Engineers or Architects within their team/department and occasionally outside of their domain.
• Lead code/design reviews and communicate updates to stakeholders with team to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning.
• Develop complex algorithms to solve business needs.
• Investigates and resolves complex application and system technical problems and production issues by directing troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions.
• Mentors engineers, coaches engineers on design, development, and maintenance of systems; Reviews teammates' code.
• Influence and help shape the future of their specific domain's architecture and quality standards and understand, identify, measure across entire solution.
• Identify system performance issues, to include technical debt, and optimize solution.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of software development experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s).
• 4 years of experience delivering technology solutions in all phases of the software systems and application development lifecycle to include leading code/design reviews.
• Deep Understanding of one or more of the following:
  EAI-Assisted Software Engineering, Building AI-Powered Applications (RAG, AI Agents, Spring AI, OpenShift AI)
  Java, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, Kotlin, C++++, HTML, CSS, Go, Python, JSON, XML, SOAP, REST APIs, Spring Boot, React, Redux, Git, GitLab, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals, Open Liberty, SQL, JUnit, Mockito, Kafka or MQ, Dynatrace
  zOS, TSO/ISPF, PL/I, Cobol, SQL, JES2 / JES, RACF, WLM, SMF, JCL, PROCs, Job Scheduling concepts, Fault Analyzer, REXX, Python on z/OS, CICS, DB2, IMS, UDB, Oracle, IBM z/OS Connect
• Demonstrated experience researching technical issues and generating creative/innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated experience addressing production issues by troubleshooting applications and systems.
• Experience articulating technical challenges and solutions.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of security coding practices and secure system fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience working with cloud technologies and tools.

What sets you apart:

• Experience supporting Property & Casualty insurance platforms and business processes.
• Experience supporting large-scale insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated business environments.
• Experience applying Generative AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate software development, improve code quality, enhance production support, automate operational processes, support application modernization, and improve ov