Senior Engineer - Licensing, Contracting and Compensation

Role Description

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it. We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

Protective Life is searching for a Software Engineer to join the Licensing, Contracting and Compensation team of the Information Technology department. This team is responsible for maintaining contract information on our agents and the calculation and payment of agent compensation.

Success in this role requires:

• Leadership ability among peers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Effective collaboration with others, both internal and external to the team and company
• Self-motivation and an inquisitive nature
• Seeking improvements and demonstrating strong accuracy and attention to detail
• Accepting responsibility and accountability for your own job and performance
• Demonstrating independent work behaviors
• Having decision-making skills to achieve desired results
• A desire to challenge others and be challenged to foster the best outcome

Your day-to-day (but don't worry, we'll keep it interesting):

• Primary focus will be on working on a team modernizing, enhancing and testing an agent contracting system
• Responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting software applications
• Works closely with business analysts and customers to gather requirements to ensure the customer’s business needs and expectations are met in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Diagnoses, isolates, and debugs software problems and provides resolution
• Prepares and modifies technical documentation

Qualifications

• 5+ years software development experience
• 3+ years .NET development experience
• Experience in C# and SQL database development
• Typically, a post-secondary degree, preferably in Management Information Services, Computer Science or Math related field may substitute for work and/or technical experience

Requirements

• Be able to manage multiple, changing priorities, resolve conflicts
• Be self-motivated, able to work independently and willing to self-teach and take responsibility for ongoing professional development
• Requires oral and written communication skills sufficient to communicate clearly with peers and customers
• Ability to perform reviews of other developers’ code and provide sign off and or constructive feedback
• Experience in agile methodologies is a plus
• Experience with automated testing is a plus
• Experience with Angular, React, or similar JavaScript libraries
• Experience with automated UI testing frameworks (Selenium or similar)
• Experience with Bootstrap or similar CSS frameworks
• Knowledge of responsive design principles
• Experience with Distributed and Asynchronous Design and Development
• Experience with CI/CD processes

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Mental health benefits and an employee assistance program
• Variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day)
• Contributions to healthcare accounts
• Pension plan
• 401(k) plan with Company matching
• ProHealth Rewards platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards