POSITION SUMMARY
The Application Developer II is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications that support business needs. This role operates with a high level of independence, owning the delivery of application features and enhancements from design through implementation.
The Application Developer II evaluates technical solutions, making design decisions, and resolving development challenges, while ensuring alignment with system architecture and business requirements.
This position plays a critical role in application delivery, contributing to system performance, code quality, and integration across platforms, while supporting continuous improvement of development practices and mentoring junior developers when needed.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design, develop, and deliver application features, enhancements, and defect fixes including development and configuration within the Duck Creek platform.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code aligned with established coding standards and best practices.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve moderately complex defects, system issues, and performance challenges.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to solution design and implementation approaches.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Analysts, QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Conduct peer code reviews and uphold coding standards, quality, and consistency across the codebase.
• Support application deployments, release activities, and environment troubleshooting.
• Work within CI/CD pipelines and contribute to improving build, deployment, and release processes.
• Identify opportunities for code optimization, performance improvements, and system enhancements.
• Analyze system workflows and integrations to ensure alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Own assigned features from development through testing and deployment support.
• Guide and support junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Follow and continuously improve development processes, standards, and engineering best practices
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 4+ years of application development experience in software engineering roles.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to end-to-end feature delivery
• Hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Duck Creek configuration (rules, forms, workflows, product model) and/or integrations (APIs, services, batch processing)
• Strong written, verbal, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of application development experience in software engineering roles
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to end-to-end feature delivery
- Experience with Duck Creek configuration, including rules, forms, workflows, and product models, and/or integrations such as APIs, services, and batch processing
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
What We Do
The California FAIR Plan is a private association comprised of all insurers authorized to write property insurance in California. The FAIR Plan was established in July 1968 following the 1960s brush fires and riots as the state’s insurer of last resort, created to ensure access to basic property insurance for California homeowners who have been unable to obtain homeowners insurance from the voluntary market for reasons outside of their control. The FAIR Plan will write fire insurance coverage for these homeowners, regardless of a property’s wildfire risk. The FAIR Plan is committed to strengthening consumer choices in the voluntary insurance market, while ensuring that all homeowners, including those who live in areas threatened by wildfires, can obtain basic property coverage and the peace of mind they deserve
