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Purpose:
Athene is seeking a technical leader to drive the direction and delivery of an AI-native, event-driven platform powering insurance workflows. This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on designing and building distributed systems, ensuring production reliability, and advancing how AI is applied across the software development lifecycle.In this role, you will shape both the platform architecture and the engineering practices that support it, serving as a go-to technical leader and mentor. You will help establish a spec-driven, AI-augmented development approach that enables faster, higher-quality delivery on a scale.
Accountabilities:
What You’ll Own
End-to-end platform architecture across workflow, document, intake, and data model services
Reliability and performance of business-critical production systems
Technical strategy, roadmap, and engineering standards
Adoption of AI-driven, spec-first development practices
What You’ll Do
Lead design and delivery of event-driven, distributed systems with a focus on simplicity and scalability
Establish and model spec-first, AI-augmented development workflows
Ensure production excellence through strong observability, incident response, and operational practices
Drive automation across testing, deployment, and operational processes
Mentor engineers and help scale team capabilities and standards
How You Think
Systems-oriented and pragmatic, balancing scale, reliability, and simplicity
Spec-first and AI-native in your development approach
Operator-minded, with a focus on production readiness
Focused on reducing complexity and enabling team effectiveness
Qualifications and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience, with 6+ years of experience building and delivering software or data-driven solutions, including recent work applying AI in real-world use cases
Experience designing and operating complex, distributed systems at scale
Strong foundation in building reliable, secure, and well-observed production systems
Ability to define and drive technical direction while mentoring and guiding other engineers
Hands-on experience applying AI in development workflows, with a spec-driven approach to building and delivering solutions
Product-oriented mindset with the ability to rapidly iterate, test, and deliver business value
Focus on automation, simplicity, and long-term health
Strong communication skills, with the ability to align teams around technical decisions and architecture
Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments (preferred)
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Top Skills
What We Do
Athene, through its subsidiaries, is a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. The products offered by Athene include: • Retail fixed, fixed indexed and registered index-linked annuity products; • Reinsurance arrangements with third-party annuity providers; and • Institutional products, such as funding agreements and group annuity contracts related to pension risk transfers. Athene's subsidiaries include Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company, a Delaware-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity and Life Company, an Iowa-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York, a New York-domiciled insurance company, Athene Securities, LLC, an Iowa-domiciled registered broker-dealer (member FINRA), and Athene Life Re Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled reinsurer. -- The financial industry is ripe for change and Athene is leading the way. We’re determined to make retirement easier for you and other Americans by harnessing our passion, smarts and relentless spirit. Learn how to become an Athene financial professional at www.athene.com/contact. If you love a challenge and are driven to succeed, then Athene is your kind of company.
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