Specialist - Software Engineer (API Developer / Platform Engineering)

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

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Role summary

Build secure, scalable APIs and integration services that enable AI use-cases to access approved enterprise systems, cloud-security data, workflows, and knowledge sources. This role will establish reusable service patterns and integration capabilities for the AI Build Line.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and support RESTful APIs and backend services using Java Spring Boot or Python.

• Build and manage API products, policies, authentication, authorization, traffic controls, and observability using Apigee.

• Develop integrations to approved internal services, cloud platforms, data sources, and workflow systems.

• Package and deploy services to Kubernetes-based environments, using cloud-native configuration, health checks, autoscaling, and resilience patterns.

• Implement CI with GitHub Actions and CD with Harness, including automated unit, integration, security, and deployment tests.

• Apply API security practices including OAuth/OIDC, service-to-service authentication, input validation, rate limiting, audit logging, and secrets management.

• Collaborate with the AI Engineer and other engineers to expose secure interfaces for agentic workflows and user experiences.

• Create clear API contracts, runbooks, and operational documentation.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering, building backend services, or APIs.

• Strong proficiency in Java with Spring Boot or Python

• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs in an enterprise environment.

• Hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience, including containers, manifests or Helm, service configuration, and troubleshooting.

• Experience with GitHub Actions for CI and Harness for continuous delivery or an equivalent enterprise CD platform and building IaC code to deploy applications

• Experience using Apigee for API development, policy configuration, and lifecycle management.

• Strong understanding of secure coding, application authentication and authorization, and API security.

• Experience with source control, automated testing, peer review, and production support.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience developing in the Kubernetes environment

• AWS development experience, including IAM, EKS, API Gateway, Lambda, or related services.

• Build and deploying Cloud Native applications using Infrastructure-as-Code: CDK/Helm Charts to AWS/K8s environments

• Experience integrating AI/LLM services, event-driven systems, or asynchronous messaging.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, observability platforms, and SRE practices.

• Experience in cyber security, cloud security, or a regulated enterprise environment.

Other expectations

• Build reusable, secure, observable software that follows Nationwide’s AWS Golden Path and standard technology stack.

• Prioritize engineering quality, automated testing, security, resilience, and maintainability alongside delivery speed.

• Collaborate across core product team and cross-train with operational team, develop run books and move capabilities into production.

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Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyses, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.

• Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.

• Manages medium to large project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.

• Additional responsibilities may include collaboration across teams and adherence to company standards.

Qualifications & Experience:

Education:

Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.

Experience:
Four or more years of analysis and technology experience.

Technical Skills:

• CI/CD

• Cloud Computing

• Programming Languages

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Software Engineering

• Software Security

• Software Testing

• Systems Integration

Soft Skills & Attributes:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Ability to work in agile and global environments

• Time management and prioritization

• Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript.

• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.

• Proven ability to tackle complex business and development problems.

• Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Additional Information:

Reporting Structure:
Reports to Manager or Director.

Location Flexibility:
Hybrid with periodic in-office collaboration

Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.

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