Senior Software Engineer – Life ALIP

USAA

Senior Software Engineer developing configurations for business and product on ALIP. Driving engineering practices to deliver life and annuity product solutions with a technical liaison role.

Posted 7/17/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $114,080 - $218,030 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in software development, particularly in designing and delivering complex technical solutions across various technologies, with a strong focus on secure coding practices and integration within the life insurance and annuity domain.

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Software Development LifecycleJava ProgrammingAWS Cloud TechnologiesAccenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP)Technical Leadership

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Hard Skills

JavaJavaScriptSQLGoPythonSecure Coding PracticesAlgorithm DevelopmentTroubleshootingSystem OptimizationBusiness Rules Configuration

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunicationCollaborationProblem-SolvingStakeholder Engagement

Tools & Technologies

AWS EKSPostgreSQLActiveMQRedisControl-MGitLab CI/CDContainersCI/CD Promotion PipelinesData & Analytics PipelinesXML/XPath

Industry Keywords

Life InsuranceAnnuityHealth InsurancePolicy AdministrationRisk ManagementCompliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoJavaJavaScriptKubernetesPostgresPythonRedisSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, code, and test complex tactical as well as strategic technical solutions across many technologies, including emerging technologies, to integrate existing systems and tools, collaborating with Engineers or Architects within their team/department and occasionally outside of their domain.
Lead code/design reviews and communicates updates to stakeholders with team to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning.
Develop complex algorithms to solve business needs.
Investigates and resolves complex application and system technical problems and production issues by directing troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions.
Mentors engineers, coaches engineers on design, development, and maintenance of systems; Reviews teammates' code.
Influence and help shape the future of their specific domain's architecture and quality standards and understand, identify, measure across entire solution.
Identify system performance issues, to include technical debt, and optimize solution.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6 years of software development experience with depth in a specific discipline(s)/technology(s), including highly configurable, business-rule-driven systems.
4 years delivering solutions across all phases of the software development lifecycle, to include leading code/design reviews and coordinating delivery across vendor and internal teams.
Basic understanding of one or more of: Java, JavaScript, SQL, Go, and Python — with practical experience applying at least one to configuration, data, or integration work (e.g., Java, SQL, Python, or XML/XPath).
Demonstrated experience researching technical issues and troubleshooting production problems across applications, configuration, and integrations — tracing behavior from UI and business rules to data and messaging layers.
Experience articulating technical challenges and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and aligning cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and secure system fundamentals (including safe handling of sensitive member/health data) and cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, containers, GitLab CI/CD).
Hands-on experience delivering Business/Product Configuration on the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP)— business rules, workflows, page groups, lookup tables, TCDs, and automated underwriting (HLQ)— deployed to production via CI/CD promotion pipelines, and integrating the platform with new business, underwriting, and requirement-ordering partners (e.g., NAAR, prefill, vendor order flows) and Data & Analytics / staging pipelines.
Experience in life, annuity, or health insurance policy administration with command of the platform stack (AWS EKS, PostgreSQL/Aurora, ActiveMQ/AmazonMQ, Redis, Control-M), plus the technical leadership to serve as the liaison between USAA and a platform vendor (e.g., Accenture), lead reviews, and mentor engineers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
401(k)
pension
life insurance
parental benefits
adoption assistance
paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
various wellness programs
career path planning and continuing education