Job Overview
Athene is seeking a Principal Developer to join our team in West Des Moines, IA. As a leading retirement services company, we are committed to providing innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients. The Principal Developer will play a key role in building and maintaining efficient software applications that help reduce administrative costs and enhance information flow.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Implement Functional Requirements: Develop efficient back-end features using Python and AWS Lambda functions. Build front-end user interfaces as needed.
- Documentation and Testing: Independently document code and produce technical design documentation. Conduct unit tests to minimize defects before integration and QA testing.
- Software Enhancements: Implement software enhancements, code refactoring, and performance improvements. Ensure quality, security, and compliance requirements are met.
- Technical Leadership: Act as an escalation point for application support and troubleshooting. Quickly assess and learn new or emerging technologies, create PoCs, and provide recommendations in solution design.
- Reverse Engineering and Migration: Analyze existing applications and migrate them into the organization's target application architecture.
- Cloud Data Management: Work with cloud data stores including Amazon RDS, S3, and DynamoDB.
- DevOps Practices: Use DevOps concepts, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines such as Jenkins, Git, and Jira.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Experience: 6+ years of application development experience, including Python and SQL.
- Technical Skills: Experience in building REST APIs, developing/deploying solutions to AWS Cloud (S3, Lambda, CloudFormation), and Salesforce development (Lightning Web Components, Apex).
- Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Additional Skills: Knowledge of AWS Neptune DB and Gremlin is a plus. Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Why Athene?
Athene is a Military Friendly Employer and celebrates diversity. We are committed to inclusion and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
Join us and be part of a team that is driven to do more and achieve more. Learn more about working at Athene and how we support our veterans.
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