Senior Application Engineer

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

• Translate business requirements into system production solution design and patterns that enable quality, re-usability, scalability, availability and maintainability in accordance with the overall Business Strategy and IT standards.
• Present and communicate ideas and design to various teams for review and brainstorming.
• 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

• At least 10+ years of experience in software engineering and Java programming with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and architecture patterns
• Experience in designing solutions for high performance and addressing performance issues in complex systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Spring Framework, Spring Boot and microservices
• Experience in enterprise systems and REST API/service design
• 2-3 years of Angular Experience is preferred.
• Substantial Technology background with experience in delivering IT projects including cloud-native applications like Azure, operations and knowledge of state-of-the-art technology.
• Experience with Maven, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience on ORM and RDBMS is a plus
• Being hands-on Engineer is key to be successful in this role.
• Have experience working in cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, operating effectively across the organization and within complex contexts.
• Strong analytical skills, and seek problems in a structured way, joining your own creative ideas by contributing to technical research and feasibility studies.
• Combining agile practices with collaborative skills across cultures, geographies and organizational levels.
• Committed to continuous learning and self-improvement.

• Excellent communication & presentation skills with proficiency in English

• Focus on the outcome and getting things accomplished with a strong commitment to quality and timely customer service.
• 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.