Technical Lead Software Engineer

Customized Services Administrators, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical Lead for its IT Platforms team in San Diego. This pivotal role involves shaping development processes for travel insurance platforms, emphasizing technical leadership and innovation. You will collaborate with diverse teams, implement best practices, and resolve complex platform issues. Join a company committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, offering competitive pay and a hybrid work environment. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this opportunity could be your next career milestone.

Benefits

Company match on 401(k)

Competitive Paid Time Off

Health, dental and vision insurance

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

Employee Assistance program

Wellness programs

Fun employee and company events

Discounts on travel insurance

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in Software Engineering with strong experience in frameworks.
• Proficient in AWS services and CI/CD systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead development team in design, testing, and deployment of applications.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure quality and service standards.

Skills

Software Engineering

Technical Leadership

Agile Methodology

API Development

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Job description

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The North American branch of Generali Global Assistance offers a diverse and inclusive work environment while employees work towards making real difference in the lives of our clients. As an Organization, we pride ourselves with offering white glove service while being mindful of corporate responsibility and our environmental footprint.

Employees enjoy a plethora of benefits to include:

• A diverse, inclusive, professional work environment
• Company match on 401(k)
• Competitive Paid Time Off policy
• Generous Employer contribution for health, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid short term and long term disability insurance
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Employee Assistance program
• Wellness programs
• Fun employee and company events
• Discounts on travel insurance

Pay Range: $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 (DOE)

Who are we?

Generali Global Assistance is proudly part of the Europ Assistance Group brand and our products utilize a number of corporate and product brands. The brands for our North American team include the following:

• CSA: US travel insurance brand for retail and lodging partners. Learn more here .
• Generali Global Assistance (GGA): The primary Corporate brand in the United States for our travel insurance, travel assistance, identity, and cyber protection, and beneficiary companion products. Learn more here .
• GMMI: the industry standard for global medical cost containment and medical risk management solutions. Learn more here .
• Iris, Powered by Generali: identity and digital protection solution. Learn more here .
• Trip Mate: US travel insurance brand for tour operator, cruise and airline partners. Learn more here .

What you’ll be doing.

Job Summary:

As a Technical Lead on the IT Platforms team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the development, testing, and release processes for Travel Insurance platforms. The IT Platforms engineering team serves as the backbone for all development efforts within the CSA line of business.

• Technical Leadership: Provide leadership by developing and maintaining code, supporting B2B, B2C, and B2B2C customer-facing platforms.
• Innovation: Develop innovative solutions for new and existing customers and distribution channels.
• Collaboration: Work closely with technical leads, developers, QA, release engineers, architects, business analysts, project managers, technical account managers, and data and security/compliance analysts in a global and culturally diverse environment.
• Cross-Functional Engagement: Collaborate with engineering, business operations, product, and commercial teams to deliver key results, establish service standards, and continuously optimize service quality.
• Best Practices: Provide technical expertise to implement best practices within the IT Platforms engineering team.
• Team Coordination: Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Information Security, and technology compliance teams.
• Issue Resolution: Resolve complex platform issues related to security scans, performance tuning, payments, and insurance claims processing.
• Technical Expertise: Advanced hands-on expertise in analysis, coding, troubleshooting, bug fixes, feature enhancements, maintenance, and support.
• CI/CD Experience: Extensive experience with CI/CD systems and processes in a microservices AWS Cloud environment.
• Agile Methodology: Proficient in Agile Scrum methodology with experience in epic/story creation using Jira.
• Leadership Experience: Proven ability to lead a global team of over 50 internal and external Managed Service Providers.
• Collaboration Skills: Experience working with external channel partners, customers, and third-party technology vendors to ensure 24/7 support, escalation handling, troubleshooting, and triage.

Responsibilities:

Leadership – 15%

• Directing the development team in the design, development, testing and deployment of applications
• Collaborate with the Architecture and Solution design team in documenting the technical design specifications for features, create epics, stories, ticket assignment to developers and QA, track and report status
• Mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to software development standards, conduct code reviews and peer reviews of solutions and technical artifacts.
• Take accountability over triage and resolution of complex platform issues, performance/latency challenges.

Software Development – 70%

• Design, technical design, develop code and test software programs and application systems
• Contribute to sprint planning and daily scrum meetings to report status and address development gaps with offshore developers
• Remove blockers faced by developers and QA team
• Fix defects found in production system

Project Coordination and Support - 15%

• Align external partner deliverables and support with the internal team capacity, velocity and delivery ensuring predictable dates and support for live services
• Collaborate with internal project management team in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and applications
• Assist in the definition, development, and documentation of software’s business requirements, objectives, deliverables, and specifications on a project-by-project basis in collaboration with internal users and departments
• Assist in defining software development project plans, including work breakdown structure, estimates, scoping, scheduling and implementation
• Analyze and assess existing business systems and procedures

Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences and Skills:

• 5-10 years in Software Engineering.
• Frameworks and Technologies: Strong experience with Spring Boot, JEE, IoC/DI, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Cloud Services: Proficient in AWS services and infrastructure, including AWS SQS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway/Portal, Route 53, EBS, Fargate, CloudFormation, and Terraform.
• CI/CD and Version Control: Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, branch management, release builds, Jenkins, and Bitbucket.
• Agile Methodology: Experienced in applying Agile methodologies to the SDLC using Jira and Confluence.
• Middleware and Messaging: Experience with JBoss 7.0 or Wildfly, JMS, HornetMQ, and RabbitMQ.
• Design and Best Practices: Excellent understanding of design patterns, coding methods, and best practices.
• Troubleshooting and QA Collaboration: Hands-on technical troubleshooting experience and collaboration with QA engineers to develop test cases and test plans.
• API Development: Experience in developing RESTful and SOAP APIs within a microservices architecture on AWS Cloud.
• Databases: Proficient with MSSQL, MySQL/Aurora, and NoSQL/DynamoDB.

Education/Certifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information systems or related field preferred

Where you’ll be doing it.

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Diego, CA office. As a hybrid role, you will be working onsite 2 days a week and working from home 3 days a week.

Apply today to begin your next chapter.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Generali Global Assistance, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and enriching workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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