Software Engineer III – Developer Services

Athene
West Des Moines, Iowa, United StatesFull-timePosted Aug 31, 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:

Join Athene’s Developer Services team as a Software Engineer and help shape how software is built across the enterprise. As a Software Engineer, you’ll develop the platforms, reusable tools, automation, and engineering practices that enable teams to build high-quality software faster, more securely, and with greater consistency.

You’ll have the opportunity to help evolve Athene’s software development lifecycle toward an AI-enabled, agentic model—building reusable AI skills and agents, supporting the Coder developer platform, and helping engineers adopt modern cloud-native and AI-assisted development practices. At Athene, innovation and a bias for action are part of how we operate. Our scale and strategic relationship with Apollo create opportunities to solve meaningful technology challenges while working in a culture grounded in our BEAM values: Believe in your co-workers, Engage actively, Act like owners, and Make it happen.

Accountabilities:

Key Deliverables

Design, build, and maintain application reference architectures, reusable templates, engineering patterns, and implementation guidance that accelerate software delivery across Athene.

Develop AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including reusable skills, agents, and tooling, and enable teams building agentic workloads using technologies such as Amazon Bedrock and Claude Code.

Build and enhance internal developer platforms, tooling, automation, and web applications—including the Coder developer platform—to create secure, reliable, and productive development environments.

Establish and promote modern software engineering practices across AI-assisted development, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, testing, and the software development lifecycle.

Partner with engineering teams through hands-on consulting, code reviews, workshops, and training to solve technical challenges and drive adoption of shared tools and practices.

Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and creatively apply them to improve developer experience, software quality, engineering efficiency, and delivery throughput.

Qualifications and Experience:

What You Need to Bring

3+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, application development, developer tooling, platform engineering, or relevant experience.

Hands-on web development experience using Python, TypeScript, React, or a comparable modern technology stack, with a strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices.

Experience developing solutions on AWS or another public cloud platform; exposure to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, DevOps, or cloud-native engineering practices is preferred.

Experience with or demonstrated interest in AI-assisted software development and agentic technologies; experience with Amazon Bedrock, Claude Code, AI agents, or similar technologies is a plus.

Strong critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills, with the adaptability and bias for action to evaluate complex challenges, experiment with new approaches, learn quickly, and deliver practical solutions.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent experience.

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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain application reference architectures and reusable templates.
  • Develop AI-enabled engineering capabilities and enable teams building agentic workloads.
  • Build and enhance internal developer platforms and tooling.
  • Establish and promote modern software engineering practices.
  • Partner with engineering teams through consulting, code reviews, and training.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to improve developer experience.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or application development.
  • Hands-on web development experience using Python, TypeScript, or React.
  • Experience developing solutions on AWS or another public cloud platform.
  • Experience with AI-assisted software development and agentic technologies is a plus.
  • Strong critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Skills mentioned

PythonTypeScriptReactAWSCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeDevOpsAutomationAI AgentsGenerative AI

About Athene

Athene is a leading retirement services company with operations in the United States, Bermuda, Canada, and Japan. Athene is focused on providing financial security by offering an attractive suite of retirement income and savings products to individuals and by serving as a solutions provider to corporations. Through its subsidiaries, Athene offers: • Retail fixed, fixed indexed and registered index-linked annuities • Fixed annuity reinsurance for third-party providers • Institutional products, such as funding agreements and pension group annuity solutions Let’s work together to make retirement remarkable. View our employment opportunities at Athene.com/careers. Learn how to become an Athene financial professional at athene.com/contact. -- https://www.athene.com/social -- Athene’s principal subsidiaries include Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company, a Delaware-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity and Life Company, an Iowa-domiciled insurance company issuing annuities in 49 states (excluding NY) and D.C., Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York, a New York-domiciled insurance company and issuing annuities in New York, and Athene Life Re Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled reinsurer. This material should not be interpreted as a recommendation by Athene Annuity and Life Company, Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York or Athene Securities, LLC. -- This page represents companies owned by Athene Holding Ltd. (West Des Moines, Iowa) using the Athene name including Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company (West Des Moines, IA), Athene Annuity and Life Company (West Des Moines, IA), Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York (Pearl River, NY), Athene Securities, LLC (West Des Moines, IA) and Athene Life Re Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda). ©2022 Athene. All rights reserved.

Financial Services1,001-5,000 employeesWest Des Moines, IA