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Software Developer Lead

📍 Location
West Des Moines
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 03, 2026

About the Role

We are driven to do more. More for our customers and the financial professionals who offer our products. If you are driven to do more and love the challenge of pursuing more, Athene is your kind of company. You will find we offer more than the basics to create an inclusive and dynamic work environment at our various locations.


Purpose:
Athene is seeking a technical leader to drive the direction and delivery of an AI-native, event-driven platform powering insurance workflows. This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on designing and building distributed systems, ensuring production reliability, and advancing how AI is applied across the software development lifecycle.

In this role, you will shape both the platform architecture and the engineering practices that support it, serving as a go-to technical leader and mentor. You will help establish a spec-driven, AI-augmented development approach that enables faster, higher-quality delivery on a scale....

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