Job highlights

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science,Software Engineering,Information Systems,or related field. . 5+ years of backend engineering experience. . 5+ years of database design and development experience.

- Required Qualifications

- Preferred Domain Experience.

- Knowledge of treaty administration,cessions,billing,settlement,and annuity processing is highly preferred.

Job Summary

Backend / Database Engineer AWS-native, Event-Driven Annuity Reinsurance Platform Role Overview We are seeking a Backend / Database Engineer to build and support the core services and data foundation of a modern AWS-native annuity reinsurance platform. This role focuses on backend development, API design, database engineering, event-driven processing, data quality, and cloud-native architectures supporting contracts, transactions, funds, treaties, cessions, billing, reporting, and auditability.

Responsibilities

- Backend Engineering: Design and develop scalable services for: Contract Management, Transaction Processing, Fund Processing, Treaty Administration, Reinsurance Placement &
- Cession Management, Billing &
- Settlement, Reporting &
- Audit Tracking

- Developing microservices

- Building business APIs

- Managing integrations

- Implementing validations and business rules

- Ensuring transactional integrity

- API Development: Design and maintain API-first solutions for: Contract, Transaction, Fund, and Treaty ingestion

- Placement requests and reporting

- Webhooks and partner integrations

- Key areas: REST APIs

- OpenAPI / Swagger

- Authentication & authorization

- API versioning

- Error handling and resiliency

- Event-Driven Architecture: Build asynchronous workflows using AWS-native services.

- Event design and publishing

- Event consumption

- Retry and replay mechanisms

- Dead-letter queue management

- Idempotent processing patterns

- Database Engineering: Design and optimize databases supporting: Treaties, Contracts, Transactions,



Funds, Cessions, Billings, Reports, Audit Records

- Data modeling

- Database design

- Query optimization

- Index tuning

- Backup & recovery

- Performance monitoring

- Data retention strategies

- AWS Cloud Development: Build cloud-native solutions using: Compute: Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate

- Integration: EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Step Functions
- Data: Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3
- Security: IAM, Cognito, Secrets Manager
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, X-Ray

- Data Quality &

- Operational Excellence: Implement validation and reconciliation frameworks. Build audit trails, logging, monitoring, and ing. Support reporting, API activity monitoring, and operational reliability.

- DevOps &

- Automation: Support CI/CD implementation. Automate testing and deployments. Participate in Infrastructure as Code initiatives.

Support

Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS deployment services.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.

- 5+ years of database design and development experience.

- Experience developing cloud-native applications.

- Strong background in microservices and API-driven architectures.

Technical Skills

- Backend Development

- Experience with one or more: Java / Spring Boot

- Python / FastAPI

- .NET Core

- Node.js / TypeScript

- Databases

- Relational PostgreSQL

- Aurora PostgreSQL

- SQL Server

- NoSQL

- DynamoDB

- MongoDB

- Robust knowledge of:

- Indexing Strategies





- Transaction Management

- Database Performance Tuning

- AWS Services

- Lambda

- ECS / EKS

- EventBridge

- SNS / SQS

- Step Functions

- S3

- CloudWatch

- APIs

- REST APIs

- JSON Webhooks

- API Security

- Event-Driven Systems

- Event-Driven Architecture

- Asynchronous Processing

- Message Queues

- Event Sourcing Concepts

- Retry &
- Resiliency Patterns

- Dead-Letter Queues

- Preferred Domain Experience

- Experience in: Reinsurance Annuities Life Insurance Financial Services

- Knowledge of treaty administration, cessions, billing, settlement, and annuity processing is highly preferred.

- Preferred Skills: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) CQRS Event Sourcing Docker Kubernetes Terraform OpenSearch / Elasticsearch GitHub Actions AWS DevOps Services

- Desired Competencies: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Attention to detail and auditability
- Product engineering mindset
- Focus on quality, scalability, and reliability

Success Measures

- Deliver scalable backend services and APIs.

- Establish reliable and optimized database solutions.

- Build secure event-driven processing capabilities.

- Improve platform performance, observability, and automation.

- Enable a configurable, cloud-native annuity reinsurance platform supporting multiple clients.

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on engineer with expertise in backend development, database engineering, AWS cloud services, microservices, and event-driven architectures, capable of building scalable enterprise-grade solutions for a modern annuity reinsurance platform.

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