Protective Life

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.

We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

The Software Engineer II candidate should have a passion for designing, developing, testing, and implementing, enterprise software systems. They will work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, customers, and other technical teams to define and deliver solutions that will ensure our customers’ needs and expectations as well as enterprise goals are met in a timely and cost-effective manner. Software Engineer II responsibilities include mentoring, assisting with architecture and system design, clarifying user requirements, defining functional system components as well as creating secure and easy to maintain software applications. An ideal candidate is familiar with the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) from preliminary system analysis to testing and deployment.

Knowledge and Abilities Required

• Demonstrates a thorough, detailed working knowledge of relevant technologies. Responsible for designing and implementing how technology will be leveraged in current or new systems.
• Strong track record of working with business customers to understand their needs and design solutions and processes to capitalize on business opportunities. 
• Requires wisdom to discern how and when to employ low-code engineering platforms in lieu of custom code.
• Requires sufficient programming skill to solve very complex technical problems. Must produce well-designed and efficient code with appropriate unit test coverage.
• Must be self- motivated, able to work independently and as a member of a team. The Candidate must take personal responsibility for work they have committed to as well as ongoing professional development and growth.
• Requires oral and written communication skills to facilitate clear communication with management and peers.
• Should be able to produce clear diagrams of developed solutions. Provides thorough and complete documentation for all programming changes and enhancements.
• Provides leadership as a model of how others should interact and accomplish tasks.
• Provides appropriate feedback to peers, support teams, and management. Willingly shares and assists in the development skills of others.
• Understand and execute the discipline required to be productive and perform all that is expected if working remotely.

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 2 years of experience in the following:
• C#
• .Net framework
• SQL Server
• REST and Web API Services

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience with Azure API Management
• Working with code repositories such as Azure DevOps or TFS.
• Experience building and executing unit tests.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience in a Service Oriented/Microservices environment
• Distributed and Asynchronous Design and Development
• Experience with a messaging system or service bus.
• Experience with Dependency Injection.

Protective’s targeted salary range for this position is $67,500 to $83,175. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to, job location, skills, and experience. The range listed is just one component of Protective’s total compensation package for employees.

This position also offers additional incentive opportunities through an annual incentive based on individual and Company performance.

Employee Benefits:

We aim to protect our employees' wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.

Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Protective, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace unique skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable and accountable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.