Software Engineer II

Join us as a Software Engineer II at Jewelers Mutual Group.

Summary
Responsible for creating desired functionality to assigned content, products or services. Develops, tests and implements software that provides robust technical infrastructure and/or software applications used by business units. The Software Engineer II will be a member of one of several cross‑functional development teams, ranging from 5 to 7 team members. This mid‑level position assists in various software development functions relating to products for internal and external customers.

• Supports a single product backlog
• Demonstrates knowledge of solutions within assigned domain, product or service
• Develops applications and the underlying framework
• Collaborates to evaluate application designs
• Implements, tests and delivers new features for multiple platforms
• Coordinates with QA team to initiate testing and ensure testing is completed
• May design framework and software standards and make suggestions for systems / software improvements
• Works to understand customer needs and usage of the product the team supports
• Collaborates well with scrum team members on design and development ideas and concepts. Accepts feedback and challenges status quo
• Recommends solutions based on established best practices
• Sees patterns and uses conceptual thinking to solve problems
• Work is more variable at this level; as such must collaborate with team and other SMEs to consider multiple options to solve problems
• Has ability to identify processes that would result in reduced costs, increased efficiencies or closer alignment to company objective
• Proactively collaborates with team to make tactical decisions that translate into specific actions, with a goal of implementing MVP in the short term with an eye to long‑term objectives
• Issues not defined by best practices are escalated to senior team members or Management
• Mostly self‑sufficient and capable of working with limited supervision
• Has an informed opinion and is able to articulate complicated technical issues to less technical management or leadership, or to less senior team members
• Has a persuasive argument, but accepting of financial/time/other constraints that may impact decision making
• Leads meetings with partners to gain alignment and understanding
• Promotes a mentor/mentee relationship with less experienced team members
• Creates and delivers presentations and communications to peers

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four‑year college or university
• 2+ years of experience in software coding and development
• 2+ years of experience with ASP.NET, Gosu, Apex, Java, XML, SQL, C#, JavaScript, and APIs
• Knowledge in problem solving, database, application servers, application design and testing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information to groups of internal and external project stakeholders, across all levels of the organization
• Strong understanding and knowledge of Lean/Agile best practices, Dev Ops, and has a history of supporting team members on projects using various development methodologies (Waterfall to Agile)
• Demonstrates thought leadership through innovative, creative, problem‑solving that arrives at actionable next steps in alignment with desired business outcomes
• Versed in multiple IDEs and languages including Gosu, Apex, .NET and Java
• Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• High‑level understanding of our technologies to be able to work and understand our technical team. These technologies include Guidewire, Ratabase, Paymentus, Image Right and Smart Comm
• Commitment to continuous learning by obtaining Guidewire Cloud Certification with company support
• Approaches work in a structured, systematic way, organizing and prioritizing workload to meet demands of the team, department and organization
• Understands enterprise and product priorities and escalates appropriately any deviations from those priorities
• Strong critical thinking and problem‑solving skills: ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw…