Lead Software Engineer - Milwaukee Datalytics - Remote U.S.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who writes strong code, communicates clearly, collaborates well, and enjoys building software with other people, not just near them.

In this role, you’ll help design, build, ship, and support production software that solves real business problems. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver thoughtful, maintainable solutions. This is a hands-on senior engineer role for someone who can go deep technically, give useful feedback, and ask smart questions.

The Senior Software Engineer’s skill set will complement a small team, working in an Agile environment.

Who We Are

Independent for over 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development, and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. Please visit our web site to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact and sustainability.

Milliman’s Chicago-Milwaukee Property and Casualty practice develops innovative products and provides actuarial consulting services. Milliman Datalytics-Defense® is an e-billing solution that was designed and built by seasoned actuaries exclusively for the analytical needs of insurance companies. It provides a platform for the submission of defense attorney invoices and facilitates the review and payment of those invoices. Datalytics provides a dynamic workflow that allows for the escalation of certain processes, as well as an auditing feature with completely configurable business rules. Detailed data is collected, organized, and presented to our clients to help manage their defense firms by providing peer-to-peer comparisons and predictive analytics. 

Responsibilities in this role will include:

• Design, build, debug, release, and maintain production web applications and distributed systems.
• Work primarily on back-end systems using our core stack, while contributing to front-end features when needed.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to shape requirements and deliver useful, high-quality software.
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to a healthy engineering culture through code reviews, testing, and thoughtful technical discussions.
• Help improve software quality through automated tests, monitoring, and attention to reliability in production.
• When reviewing user stories and project requirements, seek out additional detail to fill gaps or clarify for the team.
• Contribute to API design and system integrations, including REST-based services and related application workflows.
• Partner with teammates to break down work, surface risks early, and keep delivery moving without unnecessary drama.
• Support and mentor other engineers through collaboration, pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing.
• Work in an agile environment and contribute to regular, predictable software delivery.
• Use modern developer tooling effectively, including AI coding agents and related workflows, with good judgment and a practical mindset.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure partners as needed to help keep applications secure, stable, and well supported.
• Stay current on relevant tools, practices, and technologies, and apply them when they make the product or team better.

Individual(s) must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for immigration support or sponsorship from Milliman, now or in the future.

Professional Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and releasing web applications in production environments.
• 5+ years of back-end development experience with .NET and C#.
• 3+ years of experience implementing and integrating REST APIs.
• 3+ years of experience working with SQL Server or another relational database.
• 2+ years of experience using ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework Core.
• 2+ years of front-end development experience with a modern framework such as Svelte, React, or Vue, ideally with TypeScript.
• Experience