Application Engineer II -Frontend

About the Role

As an Application Engineer specializing in Frontend development, you'll be at the heart of developing and maintaining our sophisticated in-house insurance products built primarily with Angular. You'll join one of our product teams and contribute to functionality that generates real business impact while upholding our commitment to engineering excellence. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and review code that meets our high standards for quality and maintainability
• Collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams 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 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.

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 

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Proficiency in software development across the entire software delivery lifecycle, with strong Angular, HTML & CSS expertise
• Experience building/packing modules with module bundlers like Webpack, Node, or Browserify
• Previous public cloud experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure Strong understanding of Restful APIs, Open API specification & Swagger
• Comfort spending most of your time in the IDE and working with large and established codebases 

These are additional nice to have:

• Experience with other JavaScript frameworks beyond Angular Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Understanding of agile methodologies
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing 

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 15,000 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.

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