Principal Application Engineer

Overview

Banner Life Insurance Company is a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming purpose into progress. We are committed to being better for our customers, clients, and communities, and we strive to create a culture where great work and great experiences go hand in hand.

Responsibilities

• Drive multiple projects through to delivery, removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.
• Gain a working understanding of Banner Life as a business and collaborate with leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for customers.
• Design and develop web-based applications and micro-services using both front-end and back-end technologies (full stack development).
• Drive improvements to software engineering practices.
• Identify changes needed to improve customer/partner experience through a data-driven approach.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of corporate security procedures and policies for implementation, auditing, and documentation purposes as part of the software implementation process.
• Mentor and train software engineering team members, including both employees and contractors, fostering personal and professional growth.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and apply to projects as appropriate.
• Recommend business solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of building solutions ourselves vs low code/no code options available in the market.
• Prepare technical documentation and participate in and perform/lead code reviews to ensure that application code meets internal standards and follows industry best practices.
• Research new technologies and present proposals to management on technologies that would facilitate processing of business or reduce costs to the organization to architects and management.

Qualifications

• Education: BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• Experience/Knowledge: 10+ years of software design and development experience with backend services. 10+ years hands-on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language. C# preferred. 3+ years designing distributed systems.
• Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills with excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills. Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries. Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks. Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable. Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design. Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services. Experience with or exposure to Agile and interactive development processes. Clear and experienced understanding of software development life cycle procedures and processes, including agile methodologies. Interpersonal Skills: Desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others. Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result. Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges. A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations. Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

Pay & Benefits

The expected hiring compensation range for this position is $144,800 - $199,100 annually. This is a hybrid opportunity working in Frederick, MD. The total compensation package for this position may include other elements, such as a sign-on bonus, long term incentives, and annual bonuses. This role is eligible to participate in the Annual Incentive Plan. The current target payment for the position is 20% of base salary, modified for corporate and individual performance. Bonuses are pro-rated based on start date. This role has 20 vacation days and 10 sick days that are accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Employees also have 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. We have a competitive compensation and benefits package focused on your overall wellbeing. Employee benefits include health, life, and dental insurance; 401K with company match up to 6% as well as a pension package; generous time off; and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year (we like doing fun stuff). We’re big on professional development and we’ll support and mentor you in your career progression and expect you to help us pay it forward by helping us develop tomorrow's leaders and growth-focused professionals. We value our teams and our communities and believe in giving back. Enjoy time off to volunteer for those causes that matter most to you!