Senior Software Engineer

• Own and evolve Sammons Financial Group's Core Services platform — a collection of Java Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs that serve as the standardized interface to the Enterprise Information Hub (EIH)
• Design, build, and steward domain-driven data access APIs (Party, Policy, Activity, Arrangement, Accounts, Pending Business) and data persistence services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across all environments
• Provide technical leadership on complex, cross-domain initiatives, setting patterns that are adopted across teams

• Deep experience building production microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Spring MVC
• strong understanding of REST API design (OpenAPI/Swagger), pagination, filtering, and error handling
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized services in Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
• familiarity with Helm charts, KEDA auto-scaling, health probes, namespace strategies, and pod lifecycle management
• Experience with Azure API Management (APIM), OAuth 2.0/JWT authentication (Okta), subscription-based rate limiting, row-level security patterns, and secrets management (HashiCorp Vault)
• Azure DevOps pipelines for build, test, and deployment
• environment promotion strategies (DEV → TEST → STAGE → PROD)
• automated testing gates (unit, integration, contract, load)
• Strong familiarity with Snowflake (Hybrid Tables, Dynamic Tables, views, RBAC) and/or SQL
• understanding of data storage patterns, schema evolution, and data service design for read and write operations
• API SLO management (latency p95 < 500ms, 99.9% availability), caching strategies, connection pooling, circuit breakers, retry/backoff patterns, and DR/BCP planning
• Application-level monitoring, structured logging, distributed tracing
• usage and cost telemetry
• alerting and SLO dashboards
• Encryption at rest/in transit (TLS 1.3), tokenization, network policies, private endpoints, secret rotation, SSO/MFA, and audit logging
• College Degree in the field of computer science, information science, management information systems Preferred
• Minimum 8 years' IT development experience or equivalent Preferred
• Effective verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate with business partners and other IT staff
• Problem solving skills sufficient to perform research and recommend a proposed solution to problems
• Able to work on multiple tasks and meet established deadlines
• Able to effectively direct and coordinate the work of other team members on a project without having HR management responsibility for them
• Knowledge of computer programming languages as required for the system
• Criminal background check required

Insurance (preferably life & annuity) background is a plus, including understanding of producer/agent models, policy lifecycle, and regulatory considerations

• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family, including Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA & FSA options, and term life insurance
• Competitive compensation with a performance-based incentive program tied to clear goals and individual and/or company success
• 100% company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), plus automatic enrollment in our 401(k)
• Friday afternoons off year-round, generous paid time off, and paid holidays
• Paid development time, tuition reimbursement, and professional development opportunities across industry, individual, and leadership programs
• Volunteer time off, and our company nonprofit matching gift program, supporting the causes that matter most to you