Automation Developer

Job Overview

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top‑rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated individual to join our IT Division as an Intelligent Automation Developer. The role includes developing, maintaining, and supporting software applications for new and existing systems.

Work‑from‑home is flexible up to 3 days per week after initial in‑person training, but candidates must be able to work from our Lansing, Michigan office.

• Define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new and pre‑existing software programs and applications.
• Actively participate in code/design reviews and brainstorming sessions.
• Develop program and system documentation.
• Analyze and fix software errors in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Consult with users, architects, project leaders, and management to resolve problems and suggest alternatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with RPA, Machine Learning, NLP, OCR/ICR, Data Analysis and Java is a plus.
• Identify innovations in OCR, text analytics and NLP leveraging ML/AI and deep learning to help advance automation, knowledge discovery, decision‑making, insights, and streamline business processes or enable new capabilities in document understanding and knowledge extraction from text and unstructured data.
• Aptitude and desire for software development while demonstrating initiative.
• Knowledge of Agile software development principles, process, and tools.
• Must be able to learn and effectively use tools and software development techniques as practiced, acquired, or adopted within the IT Division.
• The ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship is a requirement.

• Competitive base salary, matched 401(k), fully‑funded pension plan (once vested), and bonus programs.
• Generous paid time off including holidays, vacation days, personal time, and sick leave.
• Friendly work environment, structured training program, employee mentoring, and an excellent compensation/benefits package.

Auto-Owners Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. The Company hires, transfers, and promotes on the basis of ability, without consideration of disability, age, sex, race, color, religion, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or any factor contrary to federal, state or local law.