Lead Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Primary Accountabilities

• Lead a large-scale enterprise migration project, driving planning, execution, and cross-team coordination.
• Provide early-phase project expertise (resource/skill/time estimates, tool/technology selection, and proof of concept participation).
• Analyze high-level system specifications, business requirements, and use cases; identify system dependencies and impacts.
• Translate requirements into detailed specifications and system design plans for the development team.
• Validate complex design decisions with stakeholders; provide advanced coding guidance to mitigate high-risk features and technical challenges.
• Create and maintain required documentation (design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, performance metrics) in alignment with organizational standards.
• Define, conduct, and mentor others on development standards and best practices.
• Lead development walkthroughs.
• Partner with teams to evaluate system flows, data usage, and manual/automated processes to confirm requirements and solution effectiveness.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.
• Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Qualifications

• Position Compensation Range $131,000.00 - $220,000.00 Pay Rate Type Salary.
• Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location.
• Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.
• Travel Requirements Up to 10%.
• Physical Requirements Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits.
• A competitive 401(k) contribution.
• A pension plan.
• An annual incentive.
• 9 paid holidays.
• A paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees).
• A student loan repayment program.
• Paid-family leave.

Additional Information

• New Employee Orientation during their first week.
• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks.
• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions.
• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting.
• In this hybrid role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month out of the Madison, WI or Boston, MA offices.
• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.