{"id":3915844,"url":"https://alion.io/job/western-southern-web-engineer-onsite","title":"Web Engineer (Onsite)","company":{"id":1881179,"name":"Western & Southern","domain":"westernsouthern.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/western-southern","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["White Plains, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":115000,"max":125000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":125000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Kanban","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-07T12:08:10Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-07","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T13:19:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Overview\nThis Gerber Life Insurance role is critical for accelerating marketing, sales and servicing gains and the company's industry leading position by bringing incremental web changes to market. The ideal candidate is an industry-proven, hands-on, senior leader of web engineering by trade specializing in life insurance direct marketing and agency digital distribution.\nResponsibilities\nIndividual contributor collaborating with a team of 5-7 engineers performing rapid agile web development to advance digital sales and servicing capabilities for the company.\nOwns execution of the plan and roadmap for e-commerce direct to consumer (DTC) and alternate distribution (agency) straight through processing enabling 1.5 million captured leads and ~750K submitted insurance applications per year.\nExecutes a roadmap for modernization and transformation of legacy applications supporting 300 internal contact center servicing agents and web self-servicing for ~2.5 million unique policy holders.\nThe individual in this role grows the ADSD agile and analytical mindset and perpetuates the ADSD \"can-do\" spirit with existing employees and contractors.\nProactively aligns the organizational design with the changing technical landscape while selectively recruiting and hiring like-minded new engineers.\nLeads team members when possible and individually manages product and sprint backlogs as needed to deliver web changes.\nUltimately accountable for sustaining and accelerating the delivery velocity of the entire team by effectively adapting people, process and technology to maximize value for the company within departmental and project budgets.\nResponsible for hiring, evaluating performance, coaching, cultivating training plans and assigning work to all direct and indirect reports to meet all new software change related work demand.\nResponsible for estimating new work and supplying employee and external contractors to meet demand for software change.\nSatisfies all new work demand within funding based on those work estimates.\nLeads teams using all people, process and technology advantages across the company.\nIndividually adheres to all designs, policies, procedures and standards for data security and regulatory compliance.\nPerforms other duties as assigned.\nComplies with all policies and standards.\nQualifications\nM.S. Computer Science, less than a Master's degree may be acceptable if accompanied by other technical training, relevant certifications, or extensive experience in positions that demonstrate required abilities and performance. - Required\nTypically requires at least 5 years of agile web engineering change management experience with at least 3 years in a leadership setting with executive level reporting experience. - Required\nTypically requires 3 years of custom DTC and agency end-end life insurance software change management and large-scale public facing, direct to consumer e-commerce web engineering. - Required\nTypically requires 3 years experience working with a team of web engineers utilizing agile delivery frameworks including Scrum, LeSS, Lean, XP, Kanban, FDD, BDD, API and UI test automation for quality control and supporting tools (Cucumber, JIRA). - Required\nMust have the ability to simplify large-scale system change related needs to minimize total cost of ownership (ensuing overhead). \nMust have an agile mindset and insatiable passion for innovation, agile delivery methods and continuous integration. \nMust be an autonomous team player able to lead effectively while solidifying working relationships at all levels of the organization. \nWork Setting/Position Demands:\nWorks in an office setting and remains in a stationary position for long periods of time while working at a desk, on a computer or with other standard office equipment, or while in meetings.\nRequires the ability to verbally communicate and exchange accurate information to customers and associates on a regular basis.\nRequires visual acuity to read and interpret a variety of correspondence, procedures, reports and forms via paper and electronic documents, visual inspection involving small defects; small parts, and/or operation of machinery (including inspection); using measurement devices continuously. Visual acuity is required to determine accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned.\nRequires the ability to prepare written correspondence, reports and forms using prescribed formats and conforming to rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style on a regular basis.\nRequires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions\nPerforms substantial movement of wrists, hands, and fingers for continuous computer work.\nExtended hours required during peak workloads or special projects/events.\nTravel Requirements:\nNone\nNote: Posted Hiring Salary Range\n$115,000-$125,000","description_format":"text","description_chars":4888,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":3,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Asset Management & Funds","Life Insurance & Annuities"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-07T12:08:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":125000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-southern-web-engineer-onsite","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-southern-web-engineer-onsite.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T14:07:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29932,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1881179},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1881179"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwestern-southern-web-engineer-onsite"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwestern-southern-web-engineer-onsite"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwestern-southern-web-engineer-onsite"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/western-southern-web-engineer-onsite\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwestern-southern-web-engineer-onsite"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3915844}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"westernsouthern.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3915844},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}