Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow. At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best. P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes. IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures. The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors. Our Great American Software Lab (G.A.S. Lab) is looking for a Senior Application Engineer to join our team and work a hybrid schedule out of the Cincinnati office. Automation Lab is a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch. Desired Skills/ Experience: Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learn Interest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patterns Demonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete parts Comfortable with Test Driven Development (TDD) Comfortable with full-time pair programming Experience with log analysis, streaming data, streaming metrics Experience with metric analysis and visualization Experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting CI and CD pipelines Concourse and/or GitHub Actions, for example Experience with AI coding assistant tooling Preferably GitHub Copilot, but can be any tool that supports IDE-based generative-AI and agentic coding Experience applying AI/ML Large Language Model to a delivered solution would be beneficial Technical area experience Worked with large Java codebases Spring / Spring Boot Vue Javascript library or any modern Javascript UI framework Cloud Native Development - (Tanzu is nice to have) IntelliJ (nice to have) or any modern IDE GitHub Technical tools: Intellij enterprise edition SOAPUI or other SOAP client Postman or other http client Jmeter or other testing framework Yourkit (profiler) or other jvm profiling tool Concourse Database connection through IntelliJ or standalone tool such as Sql Developer, Toad etc. Technical skill set: UC4 PCF/Tanzu Tomcat (legacy) Monitoring: Falcon LogScale (Humio), DynaTrace, SonarQube Database Oracle Marklogic Java JUnit or other unit testing framework Mockito or other mocking framework Spring / Spring Boot JavaScript Libraries Vue Thymeleaf React Other Modern JavaScript UI frameworks Cypress or other JavaScript test frameworks HTML/CSS Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture practices, patterns and tools HTTP REST Work management tool: Rally Business Unit: Property & Casualty IT Services Benefits: Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs. We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees. Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.