Job Description
Job Description
**This is an in-office role, based in Austin, TX. Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Visa is not available.**
Service Insurance Companies is on the search for a Software Engineer I to join the team!
About the Role: The Software Engineer role develops, maintains, and supports software applications including custom-built and packaged systems. This role will perform bug fixes, build new features, run tests, build automations, and maintain user access. They will ensure smooth business processing, build efficiencies, and assist users needing help with systems.
Responsibilities:
- Gather requirements from stakeholders
- Implement new features for custom applications based on business requirements
- Fix software defects reported by the business or identified by peers
- Full-stack development (front-end User Interface, back-end code, and database interaction)
- Document the code with comments and maintain robust application documentation
- Implement frontend frameworks as necessary to accomplish business goals
- Keep all environments (Development, User Acceptance, and Production) in healthy state
- Deploy code to all environments regularly (requires planned, after-hours publishing to production)
- Check server event logs to troubleshoot deployed applications
- Maintain Internet Information Services health
- Apply SSL certificates as necessary
- Manage code within Git source control
- Communicate with stakeholders and peers in professional and respectful manner
- Adhere to industry compliance standards
- Maintain user security and access
- Continually adapt to business requirements and demands, enabling the business to meet its evolving objectives
- Ticket queue management
- Potential to share Workers Compensation platform and IT technical knowledge with business stakeholders
- Potential to assist Data Engineering Team with Extracting, Transforming, and Loading vendor data into data warehouse
- Assist Data Engineering Team with documentation and testing
- Assist Data Engineering Team with ticket triage, researching, and fixing issues
- Meet with business stakeholders, vendors, and partners as requested
- Create and maintain complex SQL scripts
- Create and maintain Stored Procedures
- Build and nurture professional and respectful internal and external business relationships
- Build and maintain positive, productive, respectful, and professional relationships with key business stakeholders
- Maintain positive, productive, respectful, and professional verbal and written communication
* An Ideal Candidate will have a background in the insurance industry
Experience, Knowledge & Skills:
- 1 year of relational database experience working with queries, views, stored procedures, backup/restore, and performance monitoring
- 1 year of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 or later experience working with event logs, file shares, networking, installing printers, FTP, scheduled jobs, batch processing, etc.
- 1 year of experience managing Windows Server Internet Information Services (IIS)
- Strong understanding of web architecture (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Object oriented programming understanding
- A working understanding of version control software and practices (Git or TFS)
- A working understanding of AWS, Azure, or other cloud-centric solutions delivery
- Strong understanding of SQL fundamentals
Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar)
- Time management and prioritization skills
- Proven problem-solving skills
- Ability to take ownership of projects and be self-directed
- Respectful, clear, and effective written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated and sense of ownership
- Functions well in a team or individually
- Flexibility to work occasional weekends and extended hours
- Ability to communicate technical issues/solutions to a non-technical audience
Benefits:
Service Insurance Companies Offers a competitive benefits package including:
- Healthcare: Medical, Dental & Vision
- Voluntary Benefits: Life, Disability, Accident and Illness Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- 401K Matching
- Generous paid time off & holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement & training
- Group discounts available