Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AAA-The Auto Club Group is a leading provider of membership, travel, insurance, and financial services. They are seeking an Applications Consultant to lead and support the development and integration of complex systems while ensuring alignment with business strategies and customer requirements.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks
- Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development and application integration
- Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements
- Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translate and implements business strategies into technology solutions
- Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership
- Assists Security team in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources
- Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience
- Designing, developing, implementing, or supporting complex to moderately complex information systems
- Building or supporting mainframe or distributed systems
- Identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business/technical problems
- Technology assessment, recommendations and selection
- Providing technical consultation/leadership to project teams
- Staffing, coordinating/leading a large project team or a variety of small project teams
- Budgeting and expense control
- Mainframe, distributed, and/or Web-based system design and development
- Database management systems
- PC fundamental software tools
- Programming languages
- Prototyping
- Database design
- Project management tools and techniques
- Multi-platform capabilities
- User interaction
- HTML and web development tools
- System development tools (e.g. Endevor, IMS Expert, Xpediter, SQA Team Test, Eclipse)
- Integration
- Relational database concepts
- Use cases, object oriented design and programming techniques
- Systems operation practices
- Security and control procedures
- Web server, and IP-level distributed technologies
- Evaluation of a complex system and understand the inter-dependencies between components
- Strong expertise in Angular front-end development, Java Spring Boot backend services, Python FastAPI, and modern API development
- Experience building scalable enterprise applications, cloud-native solutions, and leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
- Ability and experience to: Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications using Angular, Spring Boot, and Python FastAPI
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend services
- Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces using Angular and TypeScript
- Design scalable, secure, and reusable API frameworks and integration patterns
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design sessions
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders
- Troubleshoot and resolve application performance and production issues
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment practices
- Leverage AI-powered development tools to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting
- Promote engineering best practices
- Build modern Angular front-end applications
- Develop Java Spring Boot and Python FastAPI backend services
- Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices
- Work within cloud-native and DevOps environments
- Contribute to future AI-enabled application initiatives while maintaining strong software engineering fundamentals
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of Angular development experience
- 3+ years of Java, Spring Boot, and Python development experience with FastAPI
- Strong experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Strong SQL and database development skills
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Front-End Development Technical Skills: Angular (v12+ preferred), TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Design
- Backend Development Technical Skills: Java, Spring Boot, Python, FastAPI, REST API Development, OpenAPI / Swagger, Microservices Architecture
- Database Technologies Technical Skills: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Data Modeling and Performance Tuning
- DevOps & Cloud Skills: Bitbucket, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Integration & Messaging Skills: REST APIs, GraphQL (Preferred), Kafka, RabbitMQ, Event-Driven Architecture
- Experience in an insurance environment or other service industry
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as: GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise/OpenAI APIs, Google Gemini Code Assist
- Ability to leverage AI tools for: Code generation and refactoring, Unit test creation, API documentation generation, Code review assistance, Troubleshooting and debugging, Productivity and developer acceleration
- Basic understanding of: Generative AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI integration through APIs
Benefits
- Medical plans with multiple coverage options, including HSA eligibility.
- Prescription drug coverage.
- Dental and vision benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program (confidential support services).
- Company-paid basic life insurance.
- Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Critical illness, accident, and pet insurance options.
- 401(k) plan to support long-term financial goals.
- 3% automatic deferral upon eligibility; may contribute 1% to 50% of eligible earnings, either pre or post tax.
- Company match of 50% paid on employee contributions up to 6% of pay, payable to employees following the end of the year; immediate vesting.
- Additional company contribution of 4% of pay each pay day into your account; 100% vested after three (3) years of service.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) options.
- Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrual-based, increases with tenure, eligible at 90 days of employment.
- Full-time new employees will receive up to 12 PTO days annually; accrual based on start date and may include additional PTO based on role and/or state & local requirements.
- Part-time employee PTO hours are calculated based upon the standard weekly hours the employee is scheduled to work and will accrue at a minimum of 3 hours per month.
- Paid Holidays:
- Full-time employees are eligible for 10 company-paid holidays annually, in addition to 1 mental health day, 2 floating holidays and 1 volunteer day. Holidays vary by business unit schedules.
- Part-time employees are eligible for 8 company-paid holidays annually, in addition to 1 mental health day and 2 floating holidays. Holidays vary by business unit schedules.
- Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.
- Tuition assistance (up to $5,250 annually; 80% covered by ACG).
- Professional certification support with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.
- Opportunities for career development and advancement.
- Complimentary AAA membership with roadside assistance and travel discounts.
- Adoption assistance program.
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