| Fremont, MI | Onsite or | White Plains, NY | Onsite
Join Gerber Life Insurance Company — Somewhere You Want to Be
Gerber Life Insurance Company, a member company of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), is committed to helping families protect what matters most. With career opportunities in Fremont, MI, and White Plains, NY, and select roles in Cincinnati, OH, Gerber Life Insurance Company offers associates the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work while building rewarding careers.
Gerber Life Insurance is seeking an experienced Web Engineer to help accelerate our digital sales and servicing capabilities. This is a hands-on engineering opportunity for someone who thrives in an agile environment and has experience delivering large-scale, customer-facing e-commerce solutions.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with a team of engineers to modernize and enhance web applications supporting our direct-to-consumer and agency distribution channels, helping deliver digital experiences that serve millions of policyholders and prospective customers.
What You’ll Do: A Day in the Life of a Web Engineer:
- Drive rapid, agile web development and incremental digital enhancements
- Support the modernization of legacy applications and customer self-service capabilities
- Manage product and sprint backlogs to keep web enhancements moving forward
- Collaborate across teams to improve people, processes, technology, and delivery velocity
- Champion agile development, continuous integration, innovation, security, and quality standards
Your Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science preferred; extensive relevant experience, technical training, or certifications may be considered.
- 5+ years of agile web and backend engineering/change management experience
- 3+ years of large-scale, public-facing DTC e-commerce engineering experience across web applications, APIs, and backend services
- Strong proficiency in Java, Typescript, RESTful APIs & Microservices.
- Strong understanding of AI prompt engineering, agentic workflow design, and AI-driven code review and test automation.
- Hands-on experience with advanced AI models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini, and others, including integration through Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Demonstrated ability to simplify large-scale system change requirements to reduce complexity and cost.
- A growth-oriented, agile mindset with a passion for innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Life insurance DTC and agency software experience strongly aligned with the role.
- Experience with agile frameworks and tools such as Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP, BDD, Cucumber, JIRA, API testing, and UI test automation
This position is required to work onsite at our White Plains, NY office or can be located in Fremont, MI. Candidates must be able to work from this location as part of their regular work schedule.
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