Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aflac is a Fortune 500 company known for its voluntary insurance products, and they are seeking a Software Engineer III to join their Digital Services division. The role involves leading the design, development, and optimization of customer-facing applications, while ensuring high code quality and collaborating in advanced stages of Scrum.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, test, development and optimization of customer-facing applications
- Collaborate in advanced stages of Scrum, ensuring smooth software delivery
- Enforce and improve code quality standards, particularly concerning resilience, data, and security
- Evaluate and incorporate modern programming languages and tools
- Implement test-driven development best practices
- Adhere to coding standards for resilience, data, and security
- Reviews system requirements and business processes; codes, tests, debugs and implements software solutions
- Participates in project planning sessions with clients, business analysts, and team members to analyze development requirements and make recommendations for moderate to complex systems
- Tests and implements application modules from multiple systems the team has developed or modified, ensuring application meets the needs of client and business
- Provides design recommendations, developing and integrating programs per written specifications; occasionally responsible for writing moderate to complex design specifications
- Makes moderate to complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with written specifications and division standards
- Performs other duties as required
Skills
- Extensive experience in software development and modern programming languages
- Proven experience with Scrum and advanced DevOps methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead junior developers
- Code Optimization and Memory Management
- Utilize tools like JProfiler (or YourKit) to analyze and resolve memory leaks and optimize heap usage
- Efficiently handle paginated collections and apply best practices, such as isEmpty() vs. size() > 0, to improve code performance and maintainability
- Database, SQL, and API Integration
- Design and implement database interactions using SQL with JDBC, leveraging PreparedStatements for secure queries
- Analyze explain plans, manage transactions, and integrate RESTful APIs using JSON and Swagger
- Work with JdbcTemplate, RestTemplate, and NamedJdbcTemplate to streamline database and API operations
- Spring and Spring Boot Expertise
- Build scalable applications using Spring and Spring Boot, employing dependency injection, @RestController, and Java-based configuration
- Use Spring Actuator, Spring Cloud Stream, or reactive programming to enhance system capabilities
- Develop and execute unit tests (e.g., JUnit) and use Maven for compiling, testing, and running applications
- AWS and Cloud Technologies
- Utilize AWS services such as EC2, S3, ECS, and RDS to build and manage cloud-based solutions
- Leverage Elastic Container Services with Fargate for container orchestration and hosting Spring Boot APIs
- Work with the AWS Console for resource management and SSH for secure access to EC2 instances
- Utilize Terraform and CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to build and maintain full stack infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field
- Four or more years of programming experience
- Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Master's degree in computer science, Information Systems or other related field
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Prescription drug coverage
- Health care flexible spending
- Dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- Annual bonuses
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
- If eligible, state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked)
- And other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
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