As an Application Engineer (Backend), you'll be at the heart of developing and maintaining our sophisticated in‑house insurance products. You'll join one of our product teams where your contributions will directly generate real business impact through thoughtfully implemented solutions that exceed user expectations. Key Responsibilities Develop and review code that meets our high standards for quality and maintainability. Collaborate effectively within cross‑functional teams including requirements engineers, QA specialists, and other application engineers. Shape architecture by contributing to key decisions and documentation that guide our technical direction. Integrate services and shared platforms including messaging systems, BPMN workflows, logging frameworks, and telemetry solutions. Stay current with emerging technologies and generative AI developments to continuously improve our solutions. About the Team We are a team that believes in engineering excellence and that our leaders should also be engineers themselves. We build applications that are carefully designed, thoughtfully implemented, and surpass the expectations of our users by working together with product owners. Quality and stability are first‑class deliverables in everything we do, and we lead by example by embedding high standards into our processes. About You You're a naturally curious and thoughtful professional who thrives in a high‑performance engineering environment. Your passion for coding is matched by your commitment to delivering business value. You believe in continuous learning through self‑improvement or by absorbing knowledge from those around you and you're excited to contribute to a team that values technical excellence. Qualifications Proficiency in software development across the entire software delivery lifecycle, with strong Java and Spring Boot expertise. Public cloud experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure. Experience in modern software architecture using synchronous and asynchronous integration technologies (RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or Kafka). Proficiency in relational and/or document‑based database technologies covering conceptual domain model design and its physical implementation. Comfort spending most of your time in the IDE and working with large, established codebases. Nice to Have Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Familiarity with microservices architecture. Experience with test‑driven development and automated testing frameworks. About Swiss Re Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled. During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed. #J-18808-Ljbffr