What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at DPL Financial Partners?
Job Title: Engineer
Department: Product Engineering
Supervisor: VP of Engineering
Summary
DPL is seeking a Software Engineer with proven full-stack engineering experience to contribute to the development of our proprietary DPL Platform for customers, partners and consumers in the Annuity and Insurance industry. The candidate will interact with the product management team and deliver new features to the DPL Platform. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of professional development from estimation through delivering system test ready code.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Transform design documents into front-end development
- Develop micro applications and micro services to support the DPL Platform
- Work with UI/UX design team in implementing features into the DPL Platform
- Develop new features and full-stack applications using modern Javascript frameworks like Node, Nuxt, GraphQL, Tailwind, Sequelize and Mysql (or equivalent) with a focus on extending existing applications and services.
- Implement secure APIs and backend services with authentication and authorization layers.
- Understand and utilize Github CI/CD pipelines for secure and efficient deployments.
- Be prepared to fix and expand features through maintenance development activities over time as necessary.
- Understand and utilize AWS infrastructure including services like, but not limited to, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, S3, CloudFront, GuardDuty, Lambda and EventBridge a plus.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Full-stack development skills with attention to security and performance.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to express ideas verbally and in written form; exhibits superior listening and comprehension skills; and willingness to keep others adequately informed.
- Exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills, keeps abreast of current development techniques, trends and tools, and requires minimal supervision.
- Demonstrate the ability to organize, estimate, and execute programmatic tasks.
- Experience with Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and microservices environment.
Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- 2–4 years of experience in full-stack software development.
- Experience implementing secure development practices and working within compliance frameworks.
Education and/or Experience
- MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
- 2 years of proven and relevant in the application architecture development environment.
- Experience in Insurance and/or Financial Products & Services a plus.
Typical Day
You will be a part of an engineering team building brand new solutions for the financial insurance industry for a growing startup. You will utilize JIRA for software development tracking, participate in daily stand-up meetings, deliver primarily solutions and feature sets across our micro application and service architecture. We embrace AI Agents as a key support of the professional development process for mature engineering. Lots of services, plenty of ground up work and challenging new solutions that mix data entry with data visualization. You will primarily report to the VP of Engineering and be a key delivery engineer for team DPL. If you love code, love data and build beautiful user experiences then you will be right at home with DPL.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to spend extended periods of time in front of digital screens.
Work Environment
This position may be remote with light travel to corporate expected. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.