Senior Software Engineer

Salary: $114,080 - 218,030 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors degree, or four years of relevant education and/or experience.
• Six years of software development experience with strong technical expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, or comparable enterprise application technologies.
• Four years delivering technology solutions throughout the software and application development lifecycle, including leading code or design reviews.
• Experience developing and supporting containerized services with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production applications, conducting root-cause analysis, and resolving issues across integrated systems.
• Experience refactoring and optimizing applications to improve performance, resilience, security, and operational stability.
• Experience with event-driven architecture or messaging technologies such as Kafka.
• Experience enhancing application observability through logging, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting with Kibana, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and the ability to explain technical challenges, risks, and solutions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Additional strengths include experience integrating applications with mainframes or legacy technologies; applying DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering practices to business-critical production applications; working with AWS; or using automation and AI-assisted tools to improve engineering and production support.
• We do not provide visa sponsorship for this role; applicants who will need immigration support now or in the future are not eligible to apply.

• Design, develop, code, test, and maintain complex Java applications and REST APIs for Auto policy administration, acquisition, servicing, and document processing.
• Investigate and resolve complex application, integration, and production issues across Java, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and connected systems.
• Strengthen reliability and resilience by identifying failure points, reducing operational risk and incident impact, and addressing recurring production issues.
• Find performance problems and technical debt, then refactor and optimize solutions to improve stability, scalability, and supportability.
• Improve application observability with logging, monitoring, custom dashboards, metrics, and alerts using tools such as Kibana and Datadog.
• Lead code and design reviews, share technical updates with stakeholders, and contribute to accurate planning and dependable daily operations.
• Mentor engineers in application development, production support, troubleshooting, secure coding, and system maintenance.
• Identify ways to improve engineering and operational processes through automation, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and AI-assisted capabilities.
• Ensure business-related risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in line with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

• AI
• AWS
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Docker
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Kibana
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• REST
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• Cloud

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We are USAA, working to help our members achieve financial security through competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice, with a focus on serving the military community and their families. Our values include honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service. In this role, you will support our enterprise with reliable technology for a business-critical property and casualty Auto policy administration platform, contributing across the development lifecycle with emphasis on Java and Spring Boot, production troubleshooting, stability, observability, resilience, and performance in containerized OpenShift and Kubernetes environments. We offer active-duty military spouses remote or hybrid flexibility where consistent with applicable policy and business needs; this position otherwise requires working in the office four days per week and may be based in San Antonio or Plano, Texas. Relocation assistance is unavailable. The salary range is $114,080–$218,030, with actual pay varying by location and experience; eligible employees may also receive performance-based incentives. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, a 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off and holidays, 16 paid volunteer hours, wellness programs, career planning, and continuing education. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.

last updated 41 week of 2026