Athene Annuity And Life Company

Athene Annuity And Life Company

Senior Full Stack Cloud Engineer — Vitera (AI-Native SDLC)

West Des Moines, Iowa · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
JavaScriptReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentGitPostgreSQLAWSAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTOAuthAgentic AICommunicationCollaborationCritical ThinkingAdaptability

About the role

  • You'll be architecting and shipping cloud-native applications at the center of a product that genuinely changes how Americans retire, while helping us reinvent how software gets built in an AI-first world.
  • Vitera turns retirement savings into guaranteed lifetime income - automatically, flexibly, and simply.
  • No complexity, no fine print, no anxiety.

Responsibilities

  • Learn more about how we support our Veterans.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Military experience will be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
  • 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience designing and building cloud-native applications using modern JavaScript frameworks, Node.js, React.js, AWS services, and API technologies or relevant experience.
  • Experience developing secure applications utilizing AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, IAM), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, authentication technologies (JWT/OAuth), PostgreSQL databases, and Git-based version control.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, solve complex problems, influence technical decisions, and thrive in Agile development environments while embracing innovation, adaptability, AI-enabled development practices, and continuous learning.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams while embodying Athene's BEAM values.
  • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. Military experience will be considered in lieu of a formal degree.

Skills

  • What You'll Actually Do
  • But the work goes beyond shipping features.
  • This is frontier work.

Benefits

  • Vitera is Apollo and Athene's highest-conviction growth channel in retirement income - and we're building the engineering team that will define how it scales.
  • The engineering you ship here directly determines whether someone spends their retirement with confidence or uncertainty.
  • Backed by Apollo, Athene we're setting a new standard for what retirement income can look like: clear, accessible, and built on trust.

Company info

  • We are driven to do more.
  • More for our customers and the financial professionals who offer our products.
  • If you are driven to do more and love the challenge of pursuing more, Athene is your kind of company.
  • You will find we offer more than the basics to create an inclusive and dynamic work environment at our various locations.
  • You'll be one of the engineers helping us redefine our agentic AI SDLC - rethinking how we plan, build, test, and deploy software when AI agents are part of the team.

Equal opportunity

  • Athene is committed to inclusion and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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