Software Engineer - Military veterans preferred

2025-06-24
The Standard
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Oregon
Wisconsin
53575
United States


Remote Type: Remote (USA)
All U.S. Locations
Time Type: Full time
Requisition ID: REQ005767


Description:

The next part of your journey is right around the corner — with The Standard.

A genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others is the foundation for everything we do. With a customer-first mindset and an intentional focus on building strong teams across the nation, we’ve been able to uphold our legacy of financial stability while investing in new, innovative technologies that support the needs of our customers. Our high-performance culture focused on operational excellence thrives thanks to remarkable people united by compassion and a customer-first commitment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Duties: The Software Engineer brings an engineering discipline and best practices to investigating, architecting, designing and implementing new solutions and adding new features or functions to existing solutions to meet business needs. The responsibilities include:
  • Understand the business problem to be solved.
  • Lead or participate in requirements gathering to feed an iterative-based methodology.
  • Identify and use packaged software and SaaS products to integrate with new and existing solutions.
  • Proficiently install and integrate software components.
  • Design solutions using an iterative, test-driven methodology.
  • Write unit tests and perform validation using contemporary tools, moving towards continuous development and integration.
  • Prepare production-ready code.
  • Gather, design, implement and test data needs using Oracle, Microsoft, or other data repositories.
  • Use a responsive design framework to develop and design User Interface or User Experience.
  • Peer review software design and code with other software engineers or software architects, depending on complexity.
  • Utilize prototyping when introducing new approaches or techniques.
  • Exercise proficient development in multiple modern programming/development languages.
  • Ensure all software architecture and designs adhere to enterprise-level application security best practices.
  • Build and automate the deployment of components and solutions into production using contemporary and emerging platforms, technology and software engineering methods, and applying knowledge of current industry toolsets.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign academic equivalent, in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Electronic Engineering; and 2 years of experience in software developer roles. Experience must include the following demonstrated skills and knowledge areas, which may have been gained concurrently:

  • Demonstrated experience with business analysis and information systems used in financial settings.
  • Microfocus Cobol, IBM Unix AIX, Shell/Perl Script.
  • IBM Mainframe COBOL, JCL, VSAM.
  • Oracle/SQL.
  • GIT, JIRA, and XL Deploy/Release.

Job Details:

  • Full-time position with Standard Insurance Company headquartered at 1100 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204.
  • Remote work from currently unanticipated locations in the U.S.

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Positions will be posted for at least 5 days from original posting date.

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.




About Us:

The Standard is a family of companies dedicated to helping its customers achieve financial well-being and peace of mind. In business since 1906, we’re a leading provider of group and individual disability insurance, group life, dental and vision insurance, voluntary (employee-paid) benefits, absence management services, and retirement plans and annuities for employers and individuals. For more information about The Standard, visit www.standard.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.





Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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