Full Stack Java Developer

Full Stack Java Developer

4 days onsite in Jacksonville, FL

Java, Spring Boot, Angular, AWS

Position Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software on both front-end and back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes.
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
• Supports proof-of-concept activities.
• Designs, develops, and maintains scalable, high-performance web applications specifically for customer-facing auto insurance platforms.
• Collaborates with UX/UI designers to implement user-friendly interfaces that enhance the digital experience for insurance customers.
• Designs and develops robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases.
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
• Reviews and recommends test plans for impacted areas and test coverage.
• Performs code and design reviews.
• Optimizes applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Establishes or fine-tunes CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Utilizes company-approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency.
• Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Delivers quality and timely results.
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers, and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
• Develops technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team stand-ups.
• Works closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, underwriters, and other developers, to deliver high-quality insurance products.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization.
• Reads other team members' code and pinpoints problems accurately.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends recent technologies independently or with the architect's implementation.
• Develops technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department, and team policies and procedures.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in full stack development on customer-facing applications
• Familiarity with the auto insurance industry a plus but not required.
• Software development experience (core languages: Java and JavaScript) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology.
• Worked with various project methodologies (Agile and waterfall).
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models.
• Proficiency with the latest versions of Angular and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma/Jasmine, Mockito etc.).
• Experience with cloud-based container technology such as services from AWS, CDN services like Amazon CloudFront.
• Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (SonarQube / Veracode).
• Front-end experience (HTML5, Material/Tailwinds, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications.
• Experience with APM tools, Application performance analysis and tuning.
• Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred.
• Expert in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS.
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot).
• Responsive Web Design, Development, Debugging, and Testing.
• Ability to develop/refactor clean, and well-designed code.
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) complex technical concepts to Information Technology, other Business Units and stakeholders in ways each group will understand.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive customer service relationship and to identify and understand customers' needs. Maintains two-way communication to deliver products and services that meet customer expectations.
• Ability to quickly learn new/emerging technologies and resolve any problems involved in integrating these new/emerging technologies with our systems.
• This position works at a local Kemper office with opportunity to work remote during the year.