Aflac is a Fortune 500 company and an industry leader in voluntary insurance products. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to lead the design, development, and optimization of customer-facing applications while collaborating in advanced stages of Scrum and ensuring smooth software delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, test, development and optimization of customer-facing applications
- Collaborate in advanced stages of Scrum, ensuring smooth software delivery
- Enforce and improve code quality standards, particularly concerning resilience, data, and security
- Evaluate and incorporate modern programming languages and tools
- Implement test-driven development best practices
- Adhere to coding standards for resilience, data, and security
- Reviews system requirements and business processes; codes, tests, debugs and implements software solutions
- Participates in project planning sessions with clients, business analysts, and team members to analyze development requirements and make recommendations for moderate to complex systems
- Tests and implements application modules from multiple systems the team has developed or modified, ensuring application meets the needs of client and business
- Provides design recommendations, developing and integrating programs per written specifications; occasionally responsible for writing moderate to complex design specifications
- Makes moderate to complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with written specifications and division standards
- Performs other duties as required
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in software development and modern programming languages
- Proven experience with Scrum and advanced DevOps methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead junior developers
- Code Optimization and Memory Management
- Database, SQL, and API Integration
- Spring and Spring Boot Expertise
- AWS and Cloud Technologies
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field
- Four or more years of programming experience
- Master's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field