Summary
California FAIR Plan Association is seeking an Application Developer II to design, develop, test, and maintain software applications supporting business needs. The role independently owns application features and enhancements, evaluates technical solutions, resolves development challenges, and contributes to enterprise application delivery using the Duck Creek platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver application features, enhancements, and defect fixes including development and configuration within the Duck Creek platform
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code aligned with established coding standards and best practices
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve moderately complex defects, system issues, and performance challenges
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to solution design and implementation approaches
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Analysts, QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure successful delivery
- Conduct peer code reviews and uphold coding standards, quality, and consistency across the codebase
- Support application deployments, release activities, and environment troubleshooting
- Work within CI/CD pipelines and contribute to improving build, deployment, and release processes
- Identify opportunities for code optimization, performance improvements, and system enhancements
- Analyze system workflows and integrations to ensure alignment with business and technical requirements
- Own assigned features from development through testing and deployment support
- Guide and support junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing
- Follow and continuously improve development processes, standards, and engineering best practices
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 4+ years of application development experience in software engineering roles
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms
- Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to end-to-end feature delivery
- Experience with Duck Creek configuration (rules, forms, workflows, product model) and/or integrations (APIs, services, batch processing)
- Strong written, verbal, analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms is strongly preferred
Qualifications
Must Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 4+ years of application development experience in software engineering roles
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms
- Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to end-to-end feature delivery
- Experience with Duck Creek configuration (rules, forms, workflows, product model) and/or integrations (APIs, services, batch processing)
- Strong written, verbal, analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
Nice to Haves
- Hands-on experience with Duck Creek Policy and/or Billing platforms is strongly preferred