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Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors. The company’s main operating segments are Global Housing and Global Lifestyle. Assurant is 325 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States\nThis position will be Hybrid at our Bangalore, India location.\nWorking Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM IST\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems (MIS), Engineering, or an equivalent discipline. \nRequired Experience\nMinimum 5+ years of professional software development experience, with hands-on experience in PHP-based application development. \nExperience designing, developing, supporting, and enhancing enterprise web applications and services. \nExperience working with geographically distributed applications and systems. \nExperience collaborating effectively with offshore/onshore development and support teams. \nExperience across the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, production support, and application maintenance. \nKnowledge and Skills\nPHP & Application Development\nStrong hands-on experience in PHP and object-oriented application development. \nHands-on experience with at least one PHP framework such as Laravel, Symfony, or CodeIgniter.\nGood understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), design patterns, reusable components, and clean coding principles.\nExperience developing scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-performing web applications. \nExperience with PHP dependency and package management using Composer. \nGood understanding of application logging, exception handling, debugging, and troubleshooting. \nKnowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, JSON, and XML. \nExperience with frontend technologies or frameworks such as Angular / React is desirable. \nAI-Assisted Software Development\nWorking knowledge and practical experience using AI-assisted development and coding tools.\nAbility to use AI tools to assist with writing, reviewing, refactoring, optimizing, and documenting code.\nAbility to leverage AI tools for debugging, analysing application errors and logs, identifying root causes, and resolving technical issues. \nAbility to leverage AI to understand and troubleshoot legacy or complex application code.\nAbility to provide appropriate prompts and technical context to obtain useful code suggestions and troubleshooting recommendations from AI tools. \nAbility to review, test, and validate AI-generated code and recommendations before implementation. \nEnsure AI-generated or AI-assisted code meets established standards for security, performance, maintainability, reliability, and code quality.\nGood understanding of the responsible and secure use of AI tools, particularly when working with proprietary source code, credentials, customer information, sensitive data, and production information. \nExperience with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot or equivalent tools is desirable. \nAPIs & Integration\nHands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs and web services.\nExperience with REST API development and JSON-based integrations. \nExperience implementing API authentication and authorization mechanisms. \nGood understanding of application and API security principles. \nExperience implementing appropriate security controls for transmitting and handling sensitive API payloads. \nExperience integrating applications with third-party and enterprise systems. \nKnowledge or experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation and related authentication technologies. \nPayment gateway or payment-system integration experience is desirable. \nDatabase\nHands-on experience with relational database technologies, including MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.\nExperience with AWS RDS or similar managed relational database services is desirable. \nGood SQL development skills, including experience with stored procedures. \nGood understanding of database normalization and denormalization. \nExperience with query optimization, indexing, and database performance tuning. \nAbility to design and maintain database structures based on application and business requirements. \nWeb & Infrastructure\nGood understanding of Linux-based development and application hosting environments.\nUnderstanding of web/application servers and associated infrastructure concepts, including Apache, Nginx, load balancers, proxies, and reverse proxies.\nUnderstanding of Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing concepts. \nUnderstanding of session and state management for distributed applications. \nFamiliarity with application performance, scalability, availability, and troubleshooting concepts. \nDevOps & Source Control\nProficient with Git and source-code/version-control practices. \nExperience working with Azure DevOps for source control, work management, build, and/or deployment activities. \nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment processes. \nExperience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or Jenkins. \nFamiliarity with deployment processes across development, testing, staging, and production environments. \nArchitecture & Engineering Practices\nGood understanding of client/server and n-tier application architecture. \nKnowledge of software design patterns and application development principles. \nUnderstanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and UML. \nAbility to develop well-structured, maintainable, testable, and reusable code. \nExperience participating in code reviews and following established coding standards and development best practices. \nGood understanding of application security, performance optimization, scalability, and secure development practices.\nAbility to evaluate technical approaches and recommend appropriate solutions based on requirements. \nTroubleshooting & Production Support\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform root-cause analysis and implement appropriate technical solutions. \nAbility to analyse and troubleshoot application, API, database, integration, and production-related issues. \nAbility to understand existing and legacy applications and recommend appropriate technical improvements. \nExperience supporting business-critical production applications. \nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and support production-critical situations when required. \nSecurity & Secure Development Practices\nGood understanding of application, API, and infrastructure security principles.\nExperience implementing secure development practices and appropriate security controls. \nAbility to ensure AI-assisted development activities comply with security, privacy, and compliance requirements. \nAwareness of secure handling of sensitive customer, business, and production data. \nAdditional Technical Skills\nKnowledge or experience with Node.js and/or Python is desirable. \nKnowledge of or hands-on experience with Vtiger CRM, including customization, module development, workflow configuration, integrations, and administration, would be an added advantage. \nFamiliarity with cloud environments, particularly AWS, is desirable. \nAbility to understand existing and legacy applications and recommend appropriate technical improvements. \nProfessional & Delivery Skills\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform root-cause analysis and implement appropriate technical solutions.\nEffective verbal and written communication skills. \nAbility to estimate effort, complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines for assigned development work. \nAbility to analyse technical issues, dependencies, and potential solutions. \nAbility to work effectively with incomplete information, handle ambiguity, and make sound technical decisions. \nAbility to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and assignments. \nAbility to proactively identify and communicate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints.\nAbility to collaborate with business, development, infrastructure, database, security, and support teams. \nStrong ownership and accountability for assigned deliverables. \nAbility to deliver quality solutions within agreed scope and timelines. \nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and support production-critical situations when required. \nAbility to work effectively with geographically distributed and offshore/onshore teams.\nOther requirements:\nUnderstanding of quality assurance and testing procedures, processes and techniques employed across platforms and environments in areas of technical specialties\nKnowledge of concepts, tools and processes used for estimating, tracking, managing, and reporting work\nAwareness of the company’s development and systems architecture standards\nKnowledge of interoperability issues and constraints between core platforms and distributed systems processes\nAbility to actively contribute to developmental processes both independently and within collaborative group settings\nAbility to act as a technical resource to department personnel and other members of the organisation to address and resolve inquiries and/or problems related to assigned job functions\nUnderstanding of business/operational goals and the ability to create implementations that successfully integrate into company operations\nHelping People Thrive in a Connected World\nConnect with us. Bring us your best work and your brightest ideas. And we’ll bring you a place where you can thrive. Learn more at jobs.assurant.com.\nWhat’s the culture like at Assurant?\nOur unique culture is a big reason why talented people choose Assurant. Named a Best/Great Place to Work in 14 countries and awarded the Fortune America’s Most Innovative Companies recognition, we bring together top talent around the world. Although we have a wide variety of skills and experiences, we share common characteristics that are uniquely Assurant. A passion for service. An ability to innovate in practical ways. And a willingness to take chances. We call our culture The Assurant Way.\nCompany Overview\nAssurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.\nAI and Biometric Usage\nAssurant supports the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but we want to know the real you. Visit our AI Usage Guidelines page to understand what we expect from applicants regarding their use of AI during the application process. Since we would like to know the real you, we require that all of our virtual interviews be conducted on video.\nEmployment is contingent upon completion of a required identity verification process, which may include biometric technology, where permitted by applicable law and subject to applicable notice and consent requirements. See our Privacy Notice to learn about Assurant’s privacy practices, including our use of AI-enabled technology, automated decision making, and biometric information.\nJob Scam Alert\nPlease be aware that during Assurant's application process, we will never ask for personal information such as your National ID number, bank account details, or passwords. 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