Software Engineer

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard.

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Duties: The Software Engineer brings an engineering discipline and best practices to investigating, architecting, designing and implementing new solutions and adding new features or functions to existing solutions to meet business needs.  The responsibilities include:

• Understand the business problem to be solved.
• Lead or participate in requirements gathering to feed an iterative-based methodology.
• Identify and use packaged software and SaaS products to integrate with new and existing solutions.
• Proficiently install and integrate software components.
• Design solutions using an iterative, test-driven methodology.
• Write unit tests and perform validation using contemporary tools, moving towards continuous development and integration.
• Prepare production-ready code.
• Gather, design, implement and test data needs using Oracle, Microsoft, or other data repositories.
• Use a responsive design framework to develop and design User Interface or User Experience.
• Peer review software design and code with other software engineers or software architects, depending on complexity.
• Utilize prototyping when introducing new approaches or techniques.
• Exercise proficient development in multiple modern programming/development languages.
• Ensure all software architecture and designs adhere to enterprise-level application security best practices.
• Build and automate the deployment of components and solutions into production using contemporary and emerging platforms, technology and software engineering methods, and applying knowledge of current industry toolsets.

Minimum Requirements:  Bachelor’s degree, or foreign academic equivalent, in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Electronic Engineering; and 5 years of experience in software developer roles. Experience must include the following demonstrated skills and knowledge areas, which may have been gained concurrently:

• Demonstrated experience with business analysis and information systems used in financial settings.
• .Net C#.
• Angular, HTML5 with Responsive Design.
• REST.
• Data Repositories: Oracle/SQL Server with MSBI; with some knowledge of ETL.
• Git, Jira, Jenkins, NUnit, and XLDeploy/Release.
• Cloud provider platform: Azure using IaaS & PaaS.

Worksite: Full-time remote position with Standard Insurance Company headquartered at 1100 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204. Remote work from currently unanticipated locations in U.S.

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Positions will be posted for at least 5 days from original posting date.

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC, StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., and American Heritage Life Insurance Company and American Heritage Service Company, marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. Except where precluded by state or federal law, The Standard will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. The Standard offers a drug- and alcohol-free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on The Standard's property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation and employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. After any conditional offer of employment is made, the background check will include an individualized assessment based on the applicant’s specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job. Applicants will be provided an opportunity to explain and correct background information. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.