Principal Developer

4 days ago

West Des Moines, United States Athene Holding Ltd Full time

We are Athene. At Athene, we are driven to do more. We are a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. We see every day as a new opportunity to measure ourselves against the best - and then we don't stop until we've set the bar even higher. We're ready to help you achieve more.

Purpose:
Here at Athene, the Principal Developer plays a crucial role in building and maintaining efficient software applications that help the company reduce administrative costs and enhance information flow. This involves meeting development timelines, creating streamlined and effective code, and ensuring all code adheres to Athene's standards and best practices. Additionally, the Principal Developer documents new software applications and changes to existing ones, conducts unit tests to minimize defects before integration and QA testing, and produces well-thought-out design documents. Effective communication and understanding between Business Analysts and Developers are also essential to ensure the developed code meets business needs.

Accountabilities:

  • Design and implement functional requirements
  • Build efficient back-end features in Python and AWS lambda functions
  • Ability to build front end user interface
  • Independently document own code and produce technical design documentation
  • Implement software enhancements, code refactoring and performance improvements
  • Implement software industry best practices and mature technology solutions
  • Ensure quality, security and compliance requirements are met
  • Act as an escalation point for application support and troubleshooting
  • Ability to quickly assess and learn new or emerging technologies, create PoCs and provide recommendations in the solution design
  • Ability to reverse engineer and analyze existing applications and migrate them into organization's target application architecture
  • Remediate production issues, employing root cause analysis
  • Understand and practice design principles and modern patterns of object-oriented code reusability and abstraction
  • Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
  • Analyze complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design complex software components and applications
  • Ensures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas
  • Working in cloud data stores to include Amazon RDS, S3, DynamoDB
  • Perform unit test automation in a test-driven development environment
  • Use DevOps concepts, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines - Jenkins, Git, Jira
Qualifications and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of application development experience including Python, SQL
  • Experience in building REST API, developing/deploying solutions to AWS Cloud (S3, Lambda, Cloud formation and other commonly used AWS services)
  • Experience in Salesforce development (Lightning Web Components, Apex)
  • Experience in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of AWS Neptune DB and Gremlin is a big plus
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work in a rapidly changing & dynamic environment


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