Application Engineer II

About the role

You'll be at the heart of developing and maintaining our sophisticated in-house insurance products built primarily with Java, Spring Boot and Angular. You will have the opportunity to join one of our product teams and contribute to the development of functionality which generates real business impact.

About the team

We are a team that believes in engineering excellence and that our leaders should also be engineers themselves. We build applications that are carefully designed, thoughtfully implemented, and surpass the expectations of our users by working together with product owners. Quality and stability are first-class deliverables in everything we do, and we lead by example by embedding high standards into our processes.

Your responsibilities include

• Develop and review code that meets our high standards for quality and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively within a cross-functional team including requirements engineers, QA specialists, and other application engineers.
• Shape architecture by contributing to key decisions and documentation that guide our technical direction.
• Integrate services and shared platforms including messaging systems, BPMN workflows, logging frameworks, and telemetry solutions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and Generative AI developments to continuously improve our solutions.

About you

You're a naturally curious and thoughtful professional who thrives in a high-performance engineering environment. Your passion for coding is matched by your commitment to delivering business value. You believe in continuous learning through self-improvement or by absorbing knowledge from those around you and you're excited to contribute to a team that values technical excellence.

You should bring the following skills and experiences

• 4 years of experience in software development across the entire software delivery lifecycle, with strong Java, Spring Boot and Angular expertise
• Must have previous public cloud experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure
• Experience in modern software architecture using synchronous, asynchronous integration technologies using RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or Kafka, and other technologies
• Experience with Maven, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficient in relational and/or document-based database technologies covering conceptual domain model design and its physical implementation
• Must be comfortable spending most of your time in the IDE and working with large and established codebases
• Excellent communication & presentation skills with proficiency in English
• At ease with leaving your comfort zone dealing with ambiguity
• Understanding of insurance/reinsurance business is a plus

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.