IT Software Engineer

Position Summary

Designs, develops, and maintains computer software.


Provides technical leadership on small, moderately complex, low risk enhancement projects or support teams, with little supervision.


Delivers moderately complex code/configuration changes as part of a larger implementation under a moderate level of supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud.

The Hiring Manager will also consider candidates for a Senior Software Engineer. Level of position offered will be based upon the depth and breadth of selected candidate's experience and qualifications.

What You'll Do

As an IT Software Engineer supporting the Erie Family Life Program, you will work on a team delivering projects supporting new business and policy changes for our Term and Whole Life products. You will primarily work with Mendix but will also work with ExStream and integration technologies.

Preferred Experience & Skills
- Front-end development experience, particularly in Mendix
- API and integration development
- Modern software architecture and design patterns
- Maintaining unit testing and integration testing standards to maintain and promote a healthy codebase and ensure high quality
- Agile development practices and SDLC knowledge
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Ability to coach and mentor programmers, apprentices, and interns
- Clear communication and collaborative interaction

What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience on a transformation project or working on a small to medium multi-portfolio initiative
- Experience in one or more of the following: API/integration architecture, Java/full-stack development, ExStream, AWS cloud.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Generates, reviews and debugs code/configurations that contribute to a larger product.
• Creates designs, unit tests, and code/configuration of that is reviewed and approved by a more senior engineer.
• Executes tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develops tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing)
• Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams and vendors within their area of focus (practice area).
• May perform as a technical lead on low complexity/isolated applications enhancements or a small, legacy production support team.
• May coach and mentor programmers, apprentices, and interns.

The first two duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Capabilities

• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Instills Trust
• Decision Quality
• Values Diversity
• Nimble Learning
• Customer Focus
• Optimizes Work Processes (IC)
• Ensures Accountability
• Coding And Converting
• Information Management Skills
• Job-Specific Knowledge
• Proofing Text And Numbers
• Using Tables And Graphs

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and three years' related experience; or
• Associate's degree in technical field, plus five years' related experience; or
• High school diploma plus seven years' related experience

Additional Experience

• Possesses moderate acumen with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in one or more of the following practice areas:front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, or data science, required.

Designations and/or Licenses

• Willingness to pursue a certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE required

Physical Requirements

• Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (<20%)
• Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Occasional (<20%)
• Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely
• Driving; Occasional (<20%)
• Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely
• Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%)
• Climbing/accessing heights; Rarely