Full Stack Java Developer

Location(s)

Alpharetta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida

Details

Kemper 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. 

As a Full Stack Developer you will provide technical consulting for application software development or computing technologies within areas of expertise. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of a specific programming language. Identify and resolve complex technical problems and issues with assigned applications and work processes. At Kemper, you will work and learn with a team of experts passionate about innovative and result-driven technologies. 
 
 
Position Responsibilities

• Provides technical consulting and support for application software development or computing technologies within areas of expertise. 
• Develops, documents, and executes unit test cases. 
• Delivers quality and timely results. 
• 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. 
• Review and recommend test plans for impacted areas and test coverage. 
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and team policies and procedures. 
• 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. 
• Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables. 
• Performs code and design reviews. 
• 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. 
• Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed. 
• Develop technical knowledge and performance skills of IS projects teams, within areas of expertise. 
• Establish or fine tune CI/CD pipelines and practices 
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall technical skill improvement of the organization 
• Participates in daily site, cross-site and product team stand ups 
• Able to read other team members code and pinpoint problems accurately 
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product 
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation. 
• Supports proof-of-concept activities. 
• Develop technical specs, design documents, functional designs, and requirements.

 
Position Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software development using Java. 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification. 
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of a specific programming language. 
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot) 
• Front-end experience (HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications 
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs 
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) 
• Expert in JavaScript framework (Angular/React), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS,
• Knowledge of cloud development practices. 
• Ability to support multiple software applications. 
• Ability to code, unit test and debug complex business applications. 
• Ability to write systems design specifications for complex applications. 
• Ability to quickly learn new/emerging technologies and resolve any problems involved in integrating these new/emerging technologies with our systems. 
• Ability to manage own time and prioritize activities and resources to deliver timely results. 
• Ability to gather and analyze complex facts and data and to draw correct inferences from the information. Assesses alternatives and presents logical solutions to problems. 
• Ability to influence events to achieve results. Originates independent action rather than passively reacting to events as they occur. 
• Able to follow industry defined best practice development standards.
• Software development experience (core languages: Java and JavaScript) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology 
• Ability to develop/refactor clean, and well-designed code.
• Responsive Design, Debugging, and Testing 
• Strong understanding of testing patterns to support functional and performance tests 
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma/Jasmine, Mockito etc.) 
• Experience with Container technology, and AWS 
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana 
• Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (SonarQube / Veracode) 
• Good SQL Server and Oracle database knowledge/experience 
• Experience in executing and supporting testing. 
• Worked with various project methodologies (Agile and waterfall). 
• Able to translate business to technical requirements. 
• Understands technical controls, security concepts and SOX requirements. 
• Good understanding of the insurance industry and company business practices preferred. 
• Ability to address and analyze impact of system issues. 
• 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.
• This is a hybrid role, working in the office two days per week.

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.

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