Lead Application Development Engineer

American Family Insurance

Lead Application Development Engineer developing complex business solutions for American Family Insurance. Collaborating with teams and providing technical guidance as part of the Digital Sales Team.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeMadison • Massachusetts, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $131,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaNode.jsReactSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with others in the division to provide and maintain applications to meet business needs
Responsible for design and development for complex business solutions
Provide technical guidance for specific applications
Support the Digital Sales Team
Report to the Senior Manager, Engineering - Integration Engineering Department
Provide expertise during the initial phases of the project including estimating resources, skill requirements, time requirements, identifying technologies, participating in proof of concepts
Analyze high-level system specifications, requirements and use cases
Convert information into the appropriate level specifications and system design plan for the development team
Understand and identify system dependencies
Consult with others to validate complex design decisions
Provide advanced coding expertise to mitigate high risk features or technical challenges
Provide appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as needed by organization standards
Define, conduct, mentor others, and participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration)
Prepare and lead development walkthroughs
Collaborate with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems
Demonstrated experience communicating technical information
Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers
Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language
Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions
Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced staff
Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies
Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools
Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC)
Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives
Solid Knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies
Preferred experience in REACT, Java and Node.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
401(k) contribution
Pension plan
Annual incentive
9 paid holidays
Paid time off (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
Student loan repayment program
Paid-family leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

programming languagessoftware developmentsystem designapplication architectureintegration strategiesmigration strategiesSDLCREACTJavaNode

Soft Skills

collaborationtechnical guidancecommunicationmentoringcustomer-driven solutionsanalytical skillsleadershipproblem-solvingdocumentationtesting