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Software Engineer, DevOps, Backend Developer
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Urbandale, Polk County, Iowa, 50322, USA
Listed on 2026-10-01
Listing for:
Berkley Small Business Solutions (a Berkley Company)
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-01
Job specializations:
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Software Development
DevOps, Backend Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Responsibilities- Deliver moderately complex features and epics end-to-end, decomposing work, estimating, and planning for yourself and small pods while translating business goals into scalable, performant features that drive outcomes for subsidiaries.
- Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to ensure solutions fully leverage technology to improve business processes.
- Apply engineering best practices across the full stack, authoring comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests and introducing performance and resiliency testing where appropriate.
- Perform and enforce high-quality peer reviews across the system, upholding and helping refine team development standards and quality expectations.
- Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and release practices, including canary, blue/green, and feature flags, owning deployments to non-production and assisting or leading production releases.
- Coordinate safe rollbacks when needed and maintain deployment and runbook documentation to improve stability and supportability.
- Co‑lead backlog refinement and clarify acceptance criteria while producing lightweight design specifications and API/interface contracts that reflect understanding of interfacing systems and downstream impacts.
- Apply sound design patterns and make informed trade‑offs for performance, stability, and supportability, routinely proposing improvements to reduce technical debt and enhance usability.
- Instrument applications with meaningful logging, metrics, and distributed traces; define and tune SLIs/SLOs and alert thresholds.
- Analyze telemetry and load/performance test results to identify bottlenecks and implement targeted optimizations and reliability improvements.
- Champion secure‑by‑design practices, including threat modeling, least privilege, and safe secrets management, while managing dependencies and remediating findings promptly.
- Contribute to SBOM/dependency hygiene and patch planning, ensuring solutions meet internal controls and compliance requirements.
- Triage, research, and resolve second‑level incidents, leading or contributing to root‑cause analysis and post‑mortems.
- Improve operational runbooks and support procedures and participate in a rotating on‑call schedule for production systems.
- Provide high‑quality support to end users and partner teams.
- Lead technical spikes and proof‑of‑concepts to reduce delivery risk and evaluate tools and patterns that improve developer productivity and system reliability.
- Use data and A/B experiments where appropriate to validate approaches.
- Produce and maintain system‑level documentation, including design decisions, ADRs, interface specifications, and operational runbooks.
- Contribute to the internal knowledge base and provide targeted end‑user or peer training in one‑on‑one and small‑group settings.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and operations, actively contributing to Agile ceremonies, including planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and occasionally facilitating them.
- Mentor junior developers and interns, providing guidance on development standards and code quality and modeling constructive feedback.
- Deepen expertise in BRSS applications, business processes, and system interfaces while staying current on relevant frameworks and cloud/Dev Sec Ops practices.
- Set development goals with your manager, share learnings with the team, and adapt to new tools, technologies, and processes to accelerate delivery.
- At least three years of relevant software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated proficiency.
- Advanced proficiency in front‑end and back‑end engineering, with expertise in one area and a solid foundation in the other (e.g., React/Next.js, Tailwind,…
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