Full Stack JavaScript Developer

Senior Software Engineer

Senior software engineer responsible for delivering integrated product solutions & support for actuarial modeling / prediction platforms. Works in team environment and provides technical expertise and guidance throughout the entire software life cycle. Duties include analysis, design, estimation, planning, implementation, unit / integration testing of platform improvements and operational support to ensure systems availability for business stakeholders. Also required is status tracking, communication of progress and issue resolution.

Contract Assignment: Long Term Assignment

Business Area: IT Actuarial Solutions

Local Candidates Preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide IT solution design, delivery & support expertise in modern AWS, GCP or other cloud providers Cloud, Data and DevOps technologies
• Implements timely decisions on complicated technical problems.
• Manages individual tasks and timelines with an ability to work without direct supervision.
• Mentors and coaches teammates.
• Apply leadership & ownership through full solution development life cycle while providing estimates, deliverables, and results
• Meet regularly with Project Management and Technical leads to manage status, milestones, risks and issues in an Agile SDLC
• Engage in customer planning sessions and demonstrate ability to drive out requirements
• Analyze requirements, develop technical specifications and perform solution gap analysis via Agile/Kanban methodology
• Provide technical and/or business application consultation to customers and team members regarding functionality, architecture, operating systems and databases for complex product systems
• Prepare and present application and programming design solutions to fulfill business requirements
• Engage technical analysts and business users to provide input on test cases, test scenarios, and test plans
• Engage teams outside of immediate group as required (product integration points, infrastructure, helpdesk, security, vendors)
• Evaluate and balance application change risk with business need for timely product enhancements
• Efficiently design, deliver and release operational enhancements to address performance, stability, monitoring capabilities
• Develop & mature operational support knowledge base and playbook documentation to complement product solutions
• Identify and rapidly resolve issues to enable operations. Provide training guidance to team members and users as required.
• Develop and maintain effective customer relationships to maintain credibility and trust

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 4+ years of development experience
• Proficiency in multiple tools of the full stack covering frontend frameworks, databases and deployments

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Required:

• Experience with a variety of general programming languages
• Experience with Test-Driven Development
• Experience with a variety of database technologies
• Experience with containerization
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Advanced ability to solve complex problems, drawing upon creativity, experience, and multiple sources of information
• Advanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in straightforward manner

Technical Requirements:

• Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider (experience with serverless technology like Lambdas preferred)
• Terraform
• Strong in ReactJS and NodeJS
• C#.NET 6 or newer. 4.8 nice to have
• Relational/NoSQL database
• Shell

Preferred:

• Insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge

Company Overview

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA) is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with offices around the world. RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting, and product development. Our mission is to enhance our clients’ prosperity by supporting their financial and risk management capabilities.