About the Client
We are one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
About the Role
As the Senior Back-End Engineer, you will design and develop software solutions, assist fellow engineers through peer coding and reviews, and lead discussions on development approaches and best practices. Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technological solutions that align with the product vision and roadmap.
Responsibilities
• Design and develop back-end software solutions deployed in cloud-based environments at scale.
• Maintain the performance, scalability, and security of software applications, ensuring they meet high standards of reliability for clients.
• Participate in design workshops with architects, review sessions with software engineers, and support engineering managers and product owners in driving SDLC processes.
• Effectively use new technologies to build and launch Proof of Concepts (PoC) with a prototyping approach.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure software engineering best practices are followed properly and efficiently.
Requirements
• Strong hands-on coding capabilities with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, including Spring Security, request interceptors, background/asynchronous jobs, and custom annotations.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (MSSQL, PostgreSQL), schema versioning (Flyway), and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
• Experience with API design and cross-service communication, including REST APIs, messaging, JSON serialization, API management, and integration patterns.
• Experience with build, CI/CD, containerization, and deployment, using Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines), Docker, and Kubernetes/AKS.
• Strong understanding of secure software design and coding, including static code analysis, vulnerability scanning, and remediation.
• Experience developing scalable, reliable, highly available cloud-native applications, including cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and resource provisioning.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC/Terraform) and cloud observability, including OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, structured logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience across the software delivery lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing and release, with the ability to document technical architecture and guide/coach fellow engineers.
Nice to Have Skills
• Frontend development experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to understand and contribute to an existing frontend codebase when required.
• Familiarity with modern frontend development practices, including component-based architecture, state management, REST API integration, testing, and frontend build tooling.
• Experience with one or more web/application servers