Location(s)

Alpharetta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, CORP-Randolph-Chicago-IL, Jacksonville, Florida

Details

Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

As a Senior Full Stack Developer at Kemper, you will provide technical consulting for application software development and computing technologies, with a strong focus on developing highly performant and scalable applications. You will ensure these applications feature intuitive, visually appealing user interfaces with responsive design and excellent user experience. You will primarily work on agent-facing applications, ensuring they are easy to use and meet the needs of our agents. You will collaborate with a team of experts passionate about innovative, result-driven technologies, continuously learning and growing together. 

Responsibilities 

• Technical Consulting and Support: Provides technical consulting and support for application software on both front-end and back-end development, ensuring seamless integration and functionality tailored to auto insurance processes. 

• Design, Development and Testing: 
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement user-friendly interfaces that enhance the digital experience for insurance agents. 
  • Design and develop robust APIs to support front-end functionalities and integrate with insurance services and databases. 

• Problem Resolution and Quality Assurance: Recommends improvements to existing processes or proposes new ones, to improve the quality of project deliverables. 

• Project Leadership and Management: Leads projects within specified technical disciplines; plans for the appropriate resources needed. 

• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, underwriters, and other developers, to deliver high-quality insurance products. 

• Research and Innovation: Researches, evaluates, and recommends recent technologies independently or with the architect’s implementation. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or appropriate technical certification. 
• At least 5 years of professional software development experience, with a strong background in full stack development on agent-facing applications and familiarity with the auto insurance industry. 
• Expert in Java/Spring framework (Spring and Spring Boot) 
• Expert in JavaScript framework (Angular/TypeScript), NPM, HTML, CSS, Angular CLI, Git, RxJS. 
• Software development experience (core languages: Java and JavaScript) in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development methodology 
• Experience with developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs with exposure to auto insurance industry standard models. 
• Proficiency with the latest versions of Angular and Spring Boot frameworks. 
• Experience with Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON) and Databases such as PostgreSQL. 
• Experience with unit test framework (JUnit, Karma/Jasmine, Mockito etc.) 
• Experience with cloud-based container technology such as services from AWS, CDN services like Amazon CloudFront. 
• Front-end experience (HTML5, Material/Tailwinds, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications 
• This is a hybrid position working at a Kemper office location in Alpharetta, Birmingham, Chicago or Jacksonville

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.  
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. 

Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email.  Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates.  If you receive such a message, delete it.  

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