Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes.  IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures,  The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.

Our Great American Software Lab (G.A.S. Lab) is looking for a Senior Application Engineer to join our team and work a hybrid schedule out of the Cincinnati office.

Automation Lab is a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch.

Desired Skills/ Experience:

Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learnInterest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patternsDemonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete partsComfortable with Test Driven Development (TDD)Comfortable with full-time pair programmingExperience with log analysis, streaming data, streaming metricsExperience with metric analysis and visualizationExperience building, maintaining and troubleshooting CI and CD pipelinesConcourse and/or GitHub Actions, for exampleExperience with AI coding assistant toolingPreferably GitHub Copilot, but can be any tool that supports IDE-based generative-AI and agentic codingExperience applying  AI/ML Large Language Model to a delivered solution would be beneficialTechnical area experienceWorked with large Java codebasesSpring / Spring BootVue Javascript library or any modern Javascript UI frameworkCloud Native Development - (Tanzu is nice to have)IntelliJ (nice to have) or any modern IDEGitHub

Technical tools:

Intellij – enterprise editionSOAPUI or other SOAP clientPostman or other http clientJmeter or other testing frameworkYourkit (profiler) or other jvm profiling toolConcourseDatabase connection through IntelliJ or standalone tool such as Sql Developer, Toad etc.

Technical skill set:

UC4PCF/TanzuTomcat (legacy)Monitoring: Falcon LogScale (Humio), DynaTrace, SonarQubeDatabaseOracleMarklogicJavaJUnit or other unit testing frameworkMockito or other mocking frameworkSpring / Spring BootJavaScript LibrariesVueThymeleafReactOther Modern JavaScript UI frameworksCypress or other JavaScript test frameworksHTML/CSSKnowledge of Service Oriented Architecture practices, patterns and toolsHTTP REST

Work management tool:

Rally

Business Unit:

Property & Casualty IT Services

Benefits:

Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs.

We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees.

Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.