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.

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.

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.

Education

Qualifications & Experience:

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.