Senior Engineer, Cloud Technology (Hybrid)

American Family Insurance; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

American Family Insurance in Madison, WI is seeking a senior software engineer responsible for design and development of moderate to complex business solutions, providing technical guidance and leadership for applications. This role operates in a hybrid arrangement with collaboration across teams to ensure high standards for performance, security, and quality.

You will utilize Java, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) while considering observability and AI-enabled tooling to

Qualifications

• Experience delivering customer-driven software solutions.
• Knowledge of application architecture and SDLC.
• Experience with integration between apps, databases, and platforms.
• Ability to estimate project size and effort.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes high level system specifications, system requirements and/or use cases.
• Converts information into low level specifications and system design plan.
• Understands and identifies system dependencies.
• Documents design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules and performance metrics.
• Defines, conducts and/or participates in testing (unit, system integration).
• Prepares, leads and/or participates in development walkthroughs.
• Collaborates with others regarding system flow, data usage and processes.
• Ensures software development meets standards for programming, design, performance, quality, and security.

Skills

Full stack

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

NoSQL databases

Cloud microservices

GCP

AWS

Datadog

AI tools

Observability

Tools

Datadog

GKE

CloudRun

Pub/Sub

Job description

This position collaborates with others in the division to provide and maintain applications that meet business needs. Responsible for software design and development for moderate to complex business solutions, providing technical guidance and leadership for specific applications.

Position Compensation Range

$111,000.00 - $189,000.00

Pay Rate Type

Salary

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

Primary Accountabilities

• Analyzes high level system specifications, system requirements and/or use cases.
• Converts information into low level specifications and system design plan.
• Understands and identifies system dependencies.
• Provides appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards.
• Defines, conducts, and/or participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration).
• Prepares, leads and/or participates in development walkthroughs.
• Collaborates with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements.
• Ensures software development meets standards for programming, design, performance, quality, and security. Identifies and recommends 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.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Full stack engineer
• Required knowledge of: Java , Spring boot , SQL and NoSQL Databases (PostgresSQL , Oracle, DynamoDB, etc)
• Knowledge of: Cloud Microservices, architecture. GCP, AWS are preferred
• Cloud Services: for GCP like: GKE , CloudRun, Pub/sub etc.
• Preferred knowledge of usage of AI (Claude, Copilot etc.)
• Observability and telemetry tools such as Datadog

Licenses

• Not Applicable.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%.

Physical Requirements

• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Additional Information

• To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting
• In this hybrid role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from the office. Candidates should reside within approximately 35-50 miles of one of the following office locations: Madison, WI 53783; Boston, MA 02110

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.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [e-mail] to request a reasonable accommodation.