Software Developer at Reinsurance Group of America

• The Software Developer is part of the core product development team, working on our next generation life reinsurance & data analytics platforms, TAI Insights and Connector. This position works with an internal development team and clients to define product and feature functionality for new products, and has overall responsibility for driving the software development lifecycle. The Programmer must demonstrate excellent communication skills as they are expected to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Participate in full life-cycle development from requirements through implementation;
• Understand the business needs in order to effectively transform business needs into software;
• Apply coding and software best practices, develop reference and proof of concept implementations;
• Design and develop reusable components and services;
• Create unit and component integration test strategies with a focus on validation of proper function and appropriate data;
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers across all areas of responsibility including but not limited to presentation, business logic, persistence, performance, scalability, and integrations.
• Assist in specifying the features of physical design, estimate time and effort to complete each feature, build and implementation of features, prepare product for deployment.
• Demonstrate leadership through the ability to comprehend our customers’ needs and diffuse their concerns using strong insurance industry knowledge, a high level of focus and attention to detail

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent work experience;
• Demonstrable expertise in the following technologies:

Company Overview

• NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, MVC, Web Forms, Web Services/Web API (REST), Windows Services development, TFS, nUnit or VS Unit Testing
• JavaScript (jQuery, KnockoutJS, and other JS libraries), HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
• Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Redis
• XML, JSON
• Minimum of 5 years C#/.Net development experience
• 1 to 3 years of experience in designing large scale enterprise web applications
• Expert in object-oriented programming, domain-driven design, and software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Experience with microservices architecture, continuous integration, test driven development, and the secure development lifecycle is a plus (knowledge of the OWASP Top 10).
• Proven work ethic with strong time management skills
• Experience in creating technical documentation
• Demonstrated ability to work with and lead diverse teams and meetings
• Experience in the Insurance and /or Reinsurance industry is a plus