Senior Software Engineer, Assurant, India
About US: Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and service with headquarters in Atlanta. Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors. The company’s main operating segments are Global Housing and Global Lifestyle. Assurant is 325 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States
This position will be Hybrid at our Bangalore/Mumbai/Chennai, India location.
What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?
- Analyze requirements and design solutions for approved projects and change requests of moderate to high complexity and risk (20%)
- Gather, organize, and document data and requirements from various stakeholders and constituencies according to given direction and standards.
- Participate in design consultations with hardware and software technicians.
- Develop, document and present design solutions and supporting rationale.
- Prepare and obtain approval of estimates of work effort and duration for assigned tasks.
- Participate in the preparation of product vision and project documentation.
- Design/develop system, application, and program code according to business and technical requirements (30%).
- Identify and recommend software and infrastructure components required to implement technical solutions.
- Identify and recommend solution objects, functions, interfaces, dependencies, and integration points.
- Prepare design documentation; submit for design review.
- Convert basic specifications into equivalent infrastructure and application software structures.
- Code and unit test independently or as part of a development team.
- Submit software products for review of compliance with best practices, standards, and enterprise architecture (code review).
- Participate in quality assurance and testing to achieve quality objectives (20%).
- Review established quality requirements and measurement metrics.
- Participate in quality assurance and testing activities according to planned schedules.
- Learn, use, and gain experience with testing tools and techniques.
- Perform technical support activities required for execution of test plans.
- Perform root cause analysis and defect correction as indicated by test results.
- Evaluate outcomes, report results and document findings according to current standards.
What are the requirements needed for this position?
Overall Work Experience: 6+ Years.
Mandatory Skill Sets Requirement: Node JS + Angular + MySQL
- Sound knowledge and experience in the use of expertise in distributed technologies, including but not limited to.
- Highly experienced and skilled in Node.js, PHP, AJAX, and Extensible Markup Language (XML & XMLT) and jQuery.
- Expertise and experience with RESTful API and JSON.
- Expertise and experience with database technologies including MySQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS and stored procedures.
- Good to have experience and knowledge in Angular & Python.
- Knowledge and familiarity with CSS, HTML, DHTML and JavaScript.
- Understanding of Web Servers – Apache Tomcat, Load Balancers (Layer 4 & 7), Proxy and Reverse Proxy, State Management.
- Knowledge of client/server and n-tier development principles including Unified Modelling Language (UML) and other tools supporting Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD).
- Knowledge of development concepts for Linux and web services.
- Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps and Jenkins to automate the build and deployment of applications.
- Established programming skills in targeted languages and utilities for the distributed environments and relational database technologies.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Estimation skills for cost, effort, and duration of product deliverables of moderate to high complexity.
- Analysis skills for technical problems and solutions of moderate to high risk.
- Ability to perform work and achieve results in generally unambiguous situations.
- Ability to analyze issues, handle ambiguity, and make sound, timely decisions with less than complete information.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and assignments of low to high complexity.
- Ability to manage expectations, issues and risk for tasks and assignments.
- Ability to deliver results on time, on budget and within scope.
- Capable of performing duties under pressure in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
Top Skills
What We Do
Assurant is more than a place to work. It’s a place where your work matters.
Our employees are the heart and soul of our company. Our work environment fosters teamwork and collaboration. We provide ways to make meaningful contributions, learn and develop professionally. We encourage creativity and innovation. The more our employees succeed, the better we are able to serve our customers.
Assurant is the company that protects and secures the places people live and the things they buy. We’re a Fortune 500 company with approximately 16,000 employees in 21 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We help keep life running smoothly for more than 300 million people around the world. Protecting 38 million mobile devices. 40 million motor vehicles. 80 million appliances. 36 million mortgages. And that's just the beginning.
Our Uncompromising Values
Our values guide the way we support our customers and work with one another.
Common Sense - We seek simple, straightforward solutions that keep life running smoothly for the clients and consumers we serve.
Common Decency - We act with integrity. We treat others with respect, courtesy, and kindness. We’re honest, transparent and committed to doing the right thing.
Uncommon Thinking - We're never satisfied with the status quo. We seek diverse perspectives and thrive on challenge. We believe there's always a way to build upon our successes.
Uncommon Results - We focus on actionable solutions that deliver measurable results. We approach each challenge with a sense of urgency, striving to exceed every expectation.
Our Purpose
Assurant helps our clients protect and support the major purchases people make. Things like their homes, cars, appliances and phones. But we understand what matters most. It’s not the things we protect. It’s the millions of people we serve.
