Software Engineer

At The Standard, you’ll join a team focused on putting our customers first.

Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We’re looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what’s right – across the company and in our local communities.

We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.
 
Ready to reach your highest potential? Let’s work together.

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.

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.