IT Software Engineer JAVA

Our story

At Alight we believe a companys success starts with its people. At our core we Champion People help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to Be Alight.

Our Values:

Champion People be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight act with integrity be real and empower others.

Its why were so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health wealth wellbeing absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package continuing education and training and tremendous potential with a growing global organization Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

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Role:

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer II (API Developer) to design develop test and maintain robust APIs and integration services that power our enterprise this role you will drive the full software development lifecycle for API projects from collaborating on requirements through coding testing documentation deployment and ongoing support to deliver high-quality high-impact software solutions. You will work closely with architects and technical leads to build scalable secure and reliable web services that enable critical business functionality.

Key Responsibilities

API Design & Development: Design develop and implement RESTful web services and APIs that meet business requirements and follow industry best practices. This includes defining API interfaces (using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications) and ensuring proper versioning and documentation for easy consumption by internal and external developers.

End-to-End Solution Delivery: Take ownership of full lifecycle API development from understanding business and technical requirements through coding unit/integration testing code review and deployment to production. Adhere to high standards of code quality maintainability and reusability writing clean well-documented code in line with coding standards.

Testing & Quality Assurance: Develop and execute unit and integration tests for APIs ensuring correct functionality reliability and performance under various conditions. Utilize API testing tools (e.g. Postman or automated test frameworks) to validate endpoints and identify issues early. Work closely with Quality Engineering to incorporate automated API tests and to debug and resolve defects quickly

API Performance & Optimization: Monitor and optimize API performance throughput and scalability. Conduct performance tuning load testing and profiling of services to meet non-functional requirements for speed and reliability. Identify bottlenecks and implement enhancements (caching query optimization multithreading etc.) to improve response times and resource utilization

Collaboration & Agile Practices: Work in a cross-functional Agile/Scrum team collaborating closely with product managers architects frontend developers UX designers and QA engineers to deliver features in an iterative continuous delivery environment. Participate actively in sprint activities story refinement estimations stand-ups code reviews and retrospectives to ensure alignment and transparency. Coordinate with DevOps engineers to implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code for automated deployment of API services

Qualifications & Skills

Education & Experience: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field.
3-6 years of professional software development experience with a focus on building and integrating RESTful APIs or backend web services.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind body wallet and life because its important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options wellbeing and support programs retirement vacation and sick leave maternity paternity & adoption leave continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight you understand that should you be made an offer it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alights employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation education verification employment verification and criminal check search against global sanctions and government watch lists credit check and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued respected and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger more innovative and more successful.

At Alight we welcome and embrace all individuals regardless of their background and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring reasonable accommodation is needed please contact .

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex race color religion creed national origin ancestry age physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy marital or domestic partner status citizenship military or veteran status sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression genetic information or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal state or local addition we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs practices and observances unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Note this job description does not restrict managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries partners or purchasers of Alight business units.

We offer you a competitive total rewards package continuing education & training and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries partners or purchasers of Alight business units.