Software Developer Lead

Purpose

We are driven to do more. More for our customers and the financial professionals who offer our products. If you are driven to do more and love the challenge of pursuing more, Athene is your kind of company. You will find we offer more than the basics to create an inclusive and dynamic work environment at our various locations.

Accountabilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, event-driven distributed systems supporting business-critical insurance platforms.
• Establish and champion AI-enabled, specification-driven software development practices that improve engineering quality, productivity, and delivery speed.
• Drive platform reliability through strong observability, operational excellence, automation, and production readiness.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance across engineering teams while promoting engineering standards and continuous improvement.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to simplify complex technical challenges and deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• 6+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise software, distributed systems, or AI-enabled technology solutions, including recent experience applying AI to software development or business solutions, or relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise designing secure, scalable, highly available distributed systems, with strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, observability, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, driving innovation, and balancing speed, quality, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong critical thinking, adaptability, creativity, and a bias for action, with experience leveraging AI and automation to improve engineering effectiveness and accelerate delivery.
• Experience working within enterprise or regulated environments is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.