Athene

We are Athene. At Athene, we are driven to do more. We are a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. We see every day as a new opportunity to measure ourselves against the best - and then we don't stop until we've set the bar even higher. We're ready to help you achieve more.

Purpose:

As a Software Developer III at Athene, you will be accountable for participating in design, building, and maintaining software applications to meet the needs of our business. You will be developing in Python, JAVA, using Postgres databases, and running our applications in the AWS Cloud.

Be part of our Cloud journey and help migrate and modernize existing workloads from our data center to the AWS Cloud.

Successful candidates should have a proven track record of delivering high quality solutions by collaborating with a team of analysts and developers.

Builds and maintains effective information software applications that assist Athene in minimizing administrative costs and maximizing information flow.

Accountabilities:

• Design, write code, and implement highly performant solutions as part of a team of developers and analysts. 
• Provides code review functions for peers and less experienced developers to ensure code meets design expectations with a focus on high availability, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability. 
• Proactively communicate ideas, solutions, and capabilities over and above the specific task request. 
• Document team processes and flows. 
• Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, etc., to build highly available and fault tolerant applications. 
• CloudFormation, Lambda, Containers, Postgres, and many of the AWS tools in the platform will be available to you to build Athene world class applications 
• Maintain and continually improve our Cloud-based infrastructure. 

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Systems Analysis, or equivalent work experience. 
• 3-5 years of application development experience using Python and relational databases. 
• Proven knowledge of large-scale internal software applications or related technologies. 
• Experience with Agile Scrum development methodologies. 
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts is a plus. 
• Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers 
• Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture 
• AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, Lambda etc. 
• Background in Insurance/Financial Industries is preferred. 
• A strong sense of teamwork and ability to both lead and execute programs. 

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Athene celebrates diversity, is committed to inclusion and is 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.