Senior Backend Developer

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Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

As a Senior Backend Developer at Kemper, you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies, with a strong focus on developing highly performant and scalable applications that ensure an excellent user experience. You will primarily work on agent-facing applications, ensuring they are easy to use and meet the needs of our agents. At Kemper, you will collaborate with a team of experts passionate about innovative and result-driven technologies, continuously learning and growing together. 

Responsibilities 

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software on back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes. 

• Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives. 

• Design, Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications specifically for agent-facing auto insurance platforms. 

• Design and develop robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases. 

• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases. 

• Performs code and design reviews. 

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability. 

• Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements. 

• Establish or fine tune CI/CD pipelines and practices. 

• Utilize company approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency. 

• Keeps manager, project teams/managers and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction. 

• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables. 

• Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand ups. 

 Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification. 

• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot) 

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in back-end development and Open API on agent-facing applications and familiarity with the auto insurance industry. 
• Knowledge or experience in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS is a plus. 

• Software development experience (core language/framework: Java/Spring) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology 

• Proficiency with the latest version of Spring Boot framework. 

• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models. 

• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL. 

• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma, Mockito etc.) 

• Experience with design, development, and deployment of cloud native solutions such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, cloud data platforms is a plus. 

• Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML. 

• Experience in creating/configuring CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins. 

• Ability to support multiple software applications. 

• Ability to code, unit test and debug complex business applications. 

• This position works at a local Kemper office with opportunity to work remote during the year.

The range for this position is $86,200 to $143,600. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.  
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. 

Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email.  Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates.  If you receive such a message, delete it.  

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