Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Why AAA Life

 

AAA Life is a respected and trusted American brand that has been focusing on Life Insurance and Annuity Products since 1969.  At AAA Life we have over 1.8 million policies where we take pride in earning the trust of our policyholders who understand our promise to be there for them – and their families – when we’re needed most.  By joining the AAA Life team, you are joining a company that genuinely cares about helping each other, with a devotion to protect the lives of those around us.   We embrace a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture where all associates can feel a sense of belonging and use their unique talents and perspective to influence, innovate, motivate, and thrive.

 

How You’ll Work

Work Solution: Hybrid (Tuesday- Thursday) Or Remote (USA)

Relocation Eligibility: Available 

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do 

 

AAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a highly skilled and technically strong Engineering Team Lead to serve as the go-to technical coach, solution designer, and daily mentor within our agile product delivery teams. This is a player-coach role focused on guiding engineers, shaping solutions, enforcing technical best practices, and ensuring delivery quality, without direct people management responsibilities

 

The ideal candidate will possess deep software engineering expertise, a passion for quality, and the leadership presence to influence and elevate others around them. This individual will be critical in driving forward our modernization efforts, improving team execution, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

• Lead by example in technical execution, architecture decisions, and quality standards across backend, frontend, and integration workstreams.
• Serve as technical mentor and daily coach to a cross-functional team of engineers, offering code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on support.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Act as a bridge between architecture and delivery, helping to implement future-state patterns and decompose legacy systems.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure coding.
• Identify and escalate technical blockers and risks early, proposing options and tradeoffs.
• Participate in solutioning sessions, backlog refinement, and sprint planning as a technical authority and delivery advocate.
• Contribute actively to the engineering community of practice at AAA Life, helping elevate coding standards and shared knowledge.

Qualifications

Basic Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
• Strong expertise in modern development frameworks and platforms (Java, .NET, Spring Boot, React/Angular, REST APIs, cloud-native).
• Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), DevOps, and modern CI/CD toolchains (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Proven ability to lead through influence, drive decision-making, and mentor peers without formal authority.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and integrating with enterprise platforms (e.g., FAST, Guidewire, or similar) is a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred past experience in Insurance or Finance Industry.
• Experience in managing the technical contributions of third-party vendors.

 

What We Offer:

• A collaborative, energetic work environment where you can put your passion for people to work
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability coverage available day one
• Pension Plan
• Performance-based incentive plan
• 401k available with a Company match
• Holidays and Paid Time Off
• AAA Basic Membership

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk, hear and concentrate.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

 

This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements.  Reasonable accommodation will be m