Senior Full Stack Developer

Job title: Senior Full Stack Developer in Downers Grove, IL at Kemper
Company: Kemper
Job description: Location(s) Alpharetta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Downers Grove, Illinois, Jacksonville, FloridaDetailsKemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.Kemper is adding to our development team. As a Senior Full Stack Developer at Kemper, you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies, with a strong focus on developing highly performant and scalable applications. You will ensure these applications feature intuitive, visually appealing user interfaces with responsive design and excellent user experience. You will primarily work on customer-facing applications, ensuring they are easy to use and meet the needs of our customers. You will collaborate with a team of experts passionate about innovative, result-driven technologies, continuously learning and growing together.Position Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software on both front-end and back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes.
• Consults with internal and external customers on the utilization of applications computing technologies, within areas of expertise, to ensure that customers optimize the value of those technologies.
• Supports proof-of-concept activities.
• Designs, develops, and maintains scalable, high-performance web applications specifically for customer-facing auto insurance platforms.
• Collaborates with UX/UI designers to implement user-friendly interfaces that enhance the digital experience for insurance customers.
• Designs and develops robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases.
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases.
• Reviews and recommends test plans for impacted areas and test coverage.
• Performs code and design reviews.
• Optimizes applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Establishes or fine-tunes CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Utilizes company-approved Gen AI tools to enhance development processes and improve design efficiency.
• Identifies and resolves complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. Escalates problems beyond the level of expertise to manager, more experienced technical staff, or vendor representatives.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables.
• Delivers quality and timely results.
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed.
• Keeps manager, project teams/managers, and business customers informed of activities and problems within assigned areas of responsibility; refers matters beyond limits of authority to manager for direction.
• Develops technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team stand-ups.
• Works closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, underwriters, and other developers, to deliver high-quality insurance products.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization.
• Reads other team members’ code and pinpoints problems accurately.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends recent technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation.
• Develops technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department, and team policies and procedures.

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in full stack development on customer-facing applications
• Familiarity with the auto insurance industry a plus but not required.
• Software development experience (core languages: Java and JavaScript) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology.
• Worked with various project methodologies (Agile and waterfall).
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models.
• Proficiency with the latest versions of Angular and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma/Jasmine, Mockito etc.).
• Experience with cloud-based container technology such as services from AWS, CDN services like Amazon CloudFront.
• Experience with JWT, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (SonarQube / Veracode).
• Front-end experience (HTML5, Material/Tailwinds, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications.
• Experience with APM tools, Application performance analysis and tuning.
• Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred.
• Expert in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS.
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot).
• Responsive Web Design, Development, Debugging, and Testing.
• Ability to develop/refactor clean, and well-designed code.
• Able to follow industry defined best practice development standards.
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) complex technical concepts to Information Technology, other Business Units and stakeholders in ways each group will understand.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive customer service relationship and to identify and understand customers’ needs. Maintains two-way communication to deliver products and services that meet customer expectations.
• Ability to manage own time and prioritize activities and resources to deliver timely results.
• Ability to support multiple software applications.
• Ability to quickly learn new/emerging technologies and resolve any problems involved in integrating these new/emerging technologies with our systems.
• This position works at a local Kemper office with opportunity to work remote during the year.

The range for this position is $86,200 to $143,600. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, delete it.#LI-AK-1
Expected salary: $86200 - 143600 per year
Location: Downers Grove, IL
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