Senior Backend Developer

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Kemper is one of the nations leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a highperforming culture valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge and a healthy worklife balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kempers products and services are making a real difference to our customers who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

As a Senior Backend Developer at Kemper you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies with a strong focus on developing highly performant and scalable applications that ensure an excellent user experience. You will primarily work on agentfacing applications ensuring they are easy to use and meet the needs of our agents. At Kemper you will collaborate with a team of experts passionate about innovative and resultdriven technologies continuously learning and growing together.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software on backend development ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes.

• 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.

• Design Develop and maintain scalable highperformance web applications specifically for agentfacing auto insurance platforms.

• Design and develop robust APIs to support frontend functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases.

• Develops documents and executes unit test cases.

• Performs code and design reviews.

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

• Develop technical specs design documents functional designs and requirements.

• Establish or fine tune CI/CD pipelines and practices.

• Utilize company approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency.

• 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.

• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones to improve the quality of project deliverables.

• Participates in daily site crosssite and product team stand ups.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.

• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot)

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience with a strong background in backend development and Open API on agentfacing applications and familiarity with the auto insurance industry.
• Knowledge or experience in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript) NPM HTML CSS Angular CLI Git RxJS is a plus.

• Software development experience (core language/framework: Java/Spring) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology

• Proficiency with the latest version of Spring Boot framework.

• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models.

• 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 Mockito etc.

• Experience with design development and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda API Gateway EKS cloud data platforms is a plus.

• Experience with JWT OAuth OpenID and SAML.

• Experience in creating/configuring CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.

• Ability to support multiple software applications.

• Ability to code unit test and debug complex business applications.

• This position works at a local Kemper office with opportunity to work remote during the year.

The range for this position is $86200 to $143600. When determining candidate offers we consider experience skills education certifications and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical Dental Vision PTO 401k etc.

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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