Specialist Software Engineering

Job Family

IT - Development

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life .

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate , which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7 ,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. * For more information, visit transamerica.com .

Job Description Summary
The Specialist Software Engineer designs, develops, and modernizes web and cloud-based solutions that support the organization's digital strategy. This role provides technical leadership, contributes to architecture and platform decisions, and delivers scalable, secure, and reliable enterprise solutions in an agile environment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and modernize applications, including transformation of legacy systems into cloud-native solutions.

• Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of enterprise applications and services.

• Own the technical roadmap, stability, performance, and continuous improvement of assigned systems.

• Develop, test, implement, and support software solutions using approved technologies and development frameworks.

• Lead production support activities, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and service reliability initiatives.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment processes, and infrastructure automation.

• Collaborate with business partners, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Establish and promote development, architecture, and security best practices.

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams and offshore/vendor resources.

• Evaluate and recommend technology solutions considering business requirements, cost, scalability, security, and operational impact.

• Prepare technical presentations and lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and development meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent education and experience.

• Ten years of experience developing applications using Java or .NET technologies.

• Strong experience designing and developing microservices and REST-based APIs.

• Five years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.

• Five years of experience with database design, development, and data modeling using relational and/or NoSQL technologies.

• Five years of experience with integration frameworks, messaging platforms, and distributed systems.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated testing, and deployment processes.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.

• Experience with scripting and automation technologies.

• Knowledge of software architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, and modern development practices.

• Experience with the following technologies as applicable to the role:

• Programming Languages: Java, JEE, Spring Framework (Boot), JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL

• Cloud Technologies: AWS, Cloud-Native & Microservices Architecture.

• Databases: PostgreSQL, RDBMS, Data Modeling, Query Optimization

• Integration & Messaging Tools: REST APIs, Spring Integration, Apache Camel, JWT, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SSO, Okta

• CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Harness, Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization.

• Front-End Frameworks: Angular, AngularJS, TypeScript, Nodejs, NPM, NestJS, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Applications

• AI & Developer Productivity Tools: GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, AI-Assisted Coding, Spec-Driven Development, AI-Based Test Generation, Prompt Engineering.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise application modernization, cloud migration, or platform transformation initiatives.

• Experience serving as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering best practices.

• Experience with enterprise authentication and identity integration in customer-facing applications.

• Experience adopting AI-assisted software development and developer productivity tools.

• Relevant cloud, architecture, or platform certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, or equivalent).

• Experience in Insurance, Retirement, Wealth Management, Financial Services, or other regulated industries.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)

• Work outside of normal business hours may be required

• Moderate Travel 10 to 25%

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $135,000 - $160,000 annually.  Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including  qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Applicants must be authorized