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Software Engineer Senior-Life ALIP

USAA


Job Location:

San Antonio, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Why USAA

At USAA our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA where our core values honesty integrity loyalty and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Senior Software Engineer to lead our internal Polaris team in enabling Business Configuration and Product Configuration (BC/PC) delivery on the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) USAAs strategic policy administration system for life and annuity this role you will own the engineering practices that turn business and actuarial requirements into deployed configuration across ALIPs full policy lifecycle application intake underwriting issuance and in-force servicing through the BC/PC configuration set and its GitLab CI/CD promotion pipelines. You will serve as the primary technical liaison between USAA and our platform partner (Accenture) translating requirements across teams leading design and code/config reviews and ensuring that changes to underwriting logic (HLQ) business rules workflows and UI configuration deploy safely and predictably to production. You will also partner closely with USAA integration underwriting and Data & Analytics teams to align ALIP with upstream and downstream systems from new business and requirement-ordering integrations to reporting and staging pipelines.

Demonstrates strong engineering thought leadership and applies deep technical expertise to deliver reliable well-tested configuration and integration changes across a highly configurable mission-critical insurance platform. Leads code and configuration reviews mentors engineers and drives operational improvements in the BC/PC delivery pipeline. Anticipates and troubleshoots production issues spanning configuration integration and infrastructure layers and articulates complex technical trade-offs to both technical and business audiences to keep delivery aligned to USAAs mission brand and strategic priorities.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position will be based in San Antonio; TX or Plano; TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What youll do:

  • Design develop code and test complex tactical as well as strategic technical solutions across many technologies including emerging technologies to integrate existing systems and tools collaborating with Engineers or Architects within their team/department and occasionally outside of their domain.

  • Lead code/design reviews and communicates updates to stakeholders with team to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning.

  • Develop complex algorithms to solve business needs.

  • Investigates and resolves complex application and system technical problems and production issues by directing troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions.

  • Mentors engineers coaches engineers on design development and maintenance of systems; Reviews teammates code.

  • Influence and help shape the future of their specific domains architecture and quality standards and understand identify measure across entire solution.

  • Identify system performance issues to include technical debt and optimize solution

  • Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified measured monitored and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

  • 6 years of software development experience with depth in a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) including highly configurable business-rule-driven systems.

  • 4 years delivering solutions across all phases of the software development lifecycle to include leading code/design reviews and coordinating delivery across vendor and internal teams.

  • Basic understanding of one or more of: Java JavaScript SQL Go and Python with practical experience applying at least one to configuration data or integration work (e.g. Java SQL Python or XML/XPath).

  • Demonstrated experience researching technical issues and troubleshooting production problems across applications configuration and integrations tracing behavior from UI and business rules to data and messaging layers.

  • Experience articulating technical challenges and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams without direct authority.

  • Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and secure system fundamentals (including safe handling of sensitive member/health data) and cloud technologies (AWS Kubernetes/EKS containers GitLab CI/CD).

  • Hands-on experience deliveringBusiness/Product Configuration on the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) business rules workflows page groups lookup tables TCDs andautomated underwriting (HLQ) deployed to production via CI/CD promotion pipelines and integrating the platform with new business underwriting and requirement-ordering partners(e.g. NAAR prefill vendor order flows) andData & Analytics / staging pipelines.

  • Experience inlife annuity or health insurance policy administrationwith command of the platform stack (AWS EKS PostgreSQL/Aurora ActiveMQ/AmazonMQ Redis Control-M) plus thetechnical leadershipto serve as the liaison between USAA and a platform vendor (e.g. Accenture) lead reviews and mentor engineers.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $114080- $218030.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e. H-1B TN STEM OPT Training Plans etc.).

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical financial and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical dental and vision plans 401(k) pension life insurance parental benefits adoption assistance paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours and various wellness programs. Additionally our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits visit our benefits page on .

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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