Software Engineer - Enterprise

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The West Bend Commercial Enterprise IT team is looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building high-quality, well-tested software and enjoys working across the full software development lifecycle. In this role, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, deploy, and support modern applications that power growth and transformation for agents and underwriters in the Commercial Enterprise.

This position is ideal for an engineer with solid fundamentals, a modern engineering mindset, and a desire to continuously learn and improve-both independently and with the support of a strong team.

This position offers a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office) for collaboration days, team meetings or other in-person events. The position can be based in West Bend, Madison, or Appleton.

External applications will be accepted on a rolling basis while the position remains open.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software solutions using modern engineering practices
• Build and support backend services using .NET and C#, and contribute to frontend development using React (or similar frameworks)
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs, with exposure to enterprise integration patterns and tools
• Write clean, maintainable, and test-covered code, emphasizing quality, readability, and long-term sustainability
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and requirements analysis, contributing thoughtful technical input
• Create and maintain automated unit and integration tests, supporting test-driven development where appropriate
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines that build, test, deploy, and release software reliably
• Support and maintain internal, cloud-based, and third-party solutions, helping ensure system stability and performance
• Apply secure-by-design principles, identifying and mitigating potential risks early in the development process
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve productivity—while applying sound judgment to validate outputs

What You Need to Bring:

Core Engineering Skills

• Intermediate proficiency with object-oriented programming concepts (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism)
• Strong working knowledge of .NET and C# for backend development
• Intermediate experience with modern frontend frameworks (React preferred)
• Proven experience with Git-based workflows, including branching strategies and pull requests

Modern Development Practices

• Hands-on experience with modern SDLC practices, including:
  • Source control and Git flow
  • Code reviews
  • Unit testing, TDD, and mocking frameworks
  • Debugging and release practices
• Familiarity with build and release pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, NuGet, Gradle, or similar tools)
• Ability to contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines

Cloud & Integration Awareness

• Working knowledge of cloud-native solutions, especially Azure
• Exposure to event-based and integration patterns, including tools such as NService
  
  Bus, API Management, and application hosting services
• Experience with observability and telemetry, such as Open Telemetry, Application Insights, Splunk, Dynatrace, or similar tools

Design & Problem-Solving Skills

• Intermediate understanding of solution design patterns and how to apply them to business problems
• Ability to translate requirements into technical designs and contribute to design documentation
• Comfort analyzing and querying data in structured and unstructured formats

Mindset & Collaboration

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivered solutions
• Support-oriented mindset with a willingness to help maintain and improve existing systems
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output, ensuring correctness, security, and…