From American Family Insurance Group’s careers page.
As a department or division intern the role will assist in establishing and maintaining strategies to meet organizational objectives. Under the direction of a senior level employee or manager the individual will work on projects that support the business area goals and results. Completes tasks using both interpersonal and technical skills appropriate to the specific job assignment, while adapting to new or changing situations in a team environment. Collaborates with others to provide and maintain applications that meet business needs. Responsible for design and development of business solutions using front end technologies like Angular or React and API technologies like Express or NestJS.
Primary Accountabilities
- Works with Senior Engineer to design and develop solutions to the level of quality defined by the requirements in adherence with standards, methodology and internal controls.
- Understands and identifies system dependencies.
- Understands functionality, integration points and impacts of proposed changes to supporting applications. Follows through with options and recommendations.
- Provides appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards.
- Defines, conducts, and/or participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration).
- Collaborates with others too understand effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements.
- Works with Senior Engineer to ensure software development meets standards for programming, design, performance, quality, and security.
- Participates in team activities and taking on additional work tasks as needed to help the team accomplish the desired outcome or goals.
- Creates, maintains, and/or enhances system documentation as needed.
Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements
- Familiarity with customer-driven solutions, support or service
- Basic knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of application architecture, design alternatives, and development standards. •Some familiarity with software/systems using one or more programming language is desirable.
- Familiarity or experience interpreting, modifying and writing application system design and program specifications.
- Experience using and supporting integration and communications technologies between applications, databases and technology platforms.
- Good knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
- Familiarity with front end technologies like Angular or React and API technologies like Express or NestJS.
- Familiarity with code repositories, CI/CD pipelines and cloud technologies (GCP or AWS)
- Conceptual understanding of APIs and API Gateway
- Knowledge and understanding of activities, tasks, tools and techniques for testing applications to ensure adherence to functional and quality requirements.
Licenses:
Not Applicable.
Travel Requirements
Up to 5%.
Physical Requirements
Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.
Working Conditions
Not Applicable.
Additional Information
- To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
- Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
- Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
- Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting
In this Hybrid role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from one of the following office locations: Madison, WI 53783.
Candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius of the office location. #LI-Hybrid
We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email AskHR@AmFam.com to request a reasonable accommodation.
