Jewelers Mutual Group, United States and Canada’s leading insurer, risk advisor, and technology provider for the jewelry industry is hiring a Software Engineer II!

WHY Jewelers Mutual:
We are a financially secure, exceptionally positioned, and intellectually curious company driven by our core values of Agility, Accountability and Relevancy! We continue to raise the tide of the jewelry industry we’ve served since 1913 through our innovative people, our unyielding customer commitment, and evolution of our products and services to be the most trusted advisor to all we serve.

With a generous benefits package, office locations throughout the United States, and a mantra of “making your mark today”, consider evolving your career and shining bright with Jewelers Mutual Group!

Position 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 position will assist in various software development functions relating to products for internal and external customers. Primarily supporting our low code/no code rules engine, Open Rules, as well as other 3rd party integrations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Scope

• Supports a single product backlog
• Demonstrates knowledge of solutions within assigned domain, product or service

Accountabilities

• 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.

Problem Solving & Analysis

• 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
• Uses documentation when available and creates/updates documentation, as needed.

Decision Making / Autonomy

• Proactively collaborate 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

Communications / Interactions

• 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

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year College or university preferred; or 4-7+ years of experience in software coding and development; 2+ years of experience with .Net framework, HTML, XML, SQL, C#, Javascript, API's.

Open Rules, jRules or Drools implementation and automated test experience preferred (or related rules engine)

Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) experience preferred

Experience with Azure and APIM management and deployment