AAA Life Insurance Company

Engineering Team Lead

AAA Life Insurance Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Livonia • Missouri • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AngularAzureCloudGuidewireJavaJenkins.NETReactSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

  • Serve as the go-to technical coach, solution designer, and daily mentor within our agile product delivery teams.
  • Guide engineers, shape solutions, enforce technical best practices, and ensure delivery quality.
  • Lead by example in technical execution, architecture decisions, and quality standards across backend, frontend, and integration workstreams.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
  • Act as a bridge between architecture and delivery, helping to implement future-state patterns and decompose legacy systems.
  • Establish and reinforce engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure coding.
  • Identify and escalate technical blockers and risks early, proposing options and tradeoffs.
  • Contribute actively to the engineering community of practice at AAA Life, helping elevate coding standards and shared knowledge.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
  • Strong expertise in modern development frameworks and platforms (Java, .NET, Spring Boot, React/Angular, REST APIs, cloud-native).
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), DevOps, and modern CI/CD toolchains (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
  • Proven ability to lead through influence, drive decision-making, and mentor peers without formal authority.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems and integrating with enterprise platforms (e.g., FAST, Guidewire, or similar) is a plus.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability coverage available day one
  • Pension Plan
  • Performance-based incentive plan
  • 401k available with a Company match
  • Holidays and Paid Time Off
  • AAA Basic Membership
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringJava.NETSpring BootReactAngularREST APIscloud-nativeCI/CDautomated testing
Soft Skills
technical coachingmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencedecision-makingcommunication