Application Engineer II

About the Team 

We are the Product Architecture team for L&H Solutions business of Swiss Re. We are responsible for establishing the product Architecture Standards, Engineering Guidelines and its Governance. Additionally, we own the Strategic Technology Roadmaps which will be evolving with the emerging trends and at the same time is aligned to needs of the L&H products and our customers. We leverage cloud native, multi-tenant architecture and Swiss Re's expansive data lake with its AI/ML & Analytical Data Models to create innovative & insightful products. We are passionate about technology and eager to learn on the go. We closely collaborate with product management, engineering teams and colleagues around the globe to share knowledge and engineer simple yet effective solutions. 

About the position 

Your responsibilities include:  

• Development and creation of proof of concept for our product application solutions. 
• Participate in Development & Code reviews and actively engage in Review sessions. 
• Collaborate with peers to drive the backend application architecture best practices leveraging the modern cloud services for our product portfolio. 
• Keep up with technology trends and identify promising new solutions that meet our requirements. 
• Provides hands-on troubleshooting and consulting for solution challenges when needed 
• Defining/improving standard methodologies for building, testing and deploying of applications 

Qualifications 

Experience Required 

• University Degree in Computer Sciences or similar IT related fields 
• 8-10 + years experience in working hands-on to design and develop solutions with other Sr Software engineers. 
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following: 

• Programming languages and backend frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Design and Development of RESTful webservices 
• Experience in GoF Design Patterns 
• Database: MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL DB, Oracle 
• APIs: API design, development and API management on Azure/AWS  

• Experience in developing scalable and highly available application solution leveraging cloud services like dynamic scaling, Cloudflare and caching technologies 
• Experience in one or more web/application servers such as WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, Internet Information Services, NGINX, Apache, etc 
• Experience in Microservices Architectures 
• Experience using integrated development environments (e.g., Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode) 

• Experience in containerization & deployment of applications using Docker and/or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 
• Exposure to Azure DevOps (Repo, Pipeline, CICD) 
• Experience in Cloud Application Architecture 
• Experience in agile software engineering practices with strong fundamentals 
• Strong analytical skills, and address problems in a structured way, joining your own creative ideas and those of others. 
• Good communication (written, verbal, and presentation) skills 
• Proven experience in collaborating and working with global business stakeholders. 
• Ability to describe and document application architecture and processes in an easy-to-understand manner. 
• Prior experience working in an Insurtech, insurance and/or product development organization a plus