Engineering Team Lead at AAA Life Insurance Company – Livonia, Michigan

Engineering Team Lead

US-MI-Livonia

Job ID: 2026-2061
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Information Technology
Livonia

Overview

We need an ambitious, curious leader to become a Engineering Team Lead on the newly formed AAA Business Operations Team to help drive the biggest change in the company’s history.

The Opportunity – Why Join

Are you ready to redefine how an entire industry engages with customers? At AAA Life we leverage technology to put human connection at the heart of what we do. If you are someone who thrives on purpose and wants to make a tangible difference in people’s lives when it matters most, then join AAA Life who has the unique ability to access tens of millions of existing AAA customers powered by the strength of one of America’s most trusted brands. We have embarked on a mission to double in size - Becoming one of the largest providers in the US. These facts showcase why we're the right choice:

• On purpose: a leading professional services firm found that the commitment, empathy and dedication of employees at AAA Life was the highest across a benchmark of top US companies
• On growth: we have the privilege to offer our products to tens of millions of Americans that are proud members of AAA
• On making a difference: we serve Americans by delivering life insurance products that make a true difference for families during their hardest times, not wealth management instruments (more details on this during the interview)
• On culture: USA Today named us 2025 top workplace nationwide. We believe the job of an insurance company is to do good. Our mission is to help our members during what is often the hardest times in their lives. We pick up the phone to people who have lost loved ones and offer our genuine support. That is why we will always put human connection at the heart of what we do - always being there to talk to our members person to person. We believe the job of an insurance company is to pay out. That is what insurance is for. Most of our members have real life policies - policies that bring peace of mind during life, and genuine support in the event of death. We are not here to chase the super-rich with annuities and wealth management products. AAA has been one of the most trusted names in America because it believes in providing the services that middle class Americans need.

How You’ll Work

• Work Solution: Hybrid (Tuesday- Thursday) or Remote (USA)
• Relocation Eligibility: Available

What We Bring to the Table

• Hybrid work environment that promotes work-life balance
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting from your first day
• Employer 401k match and employer contribution to a pension plan
• Generous PTO and paid parental leave to support your family needs
• Various associate resource groups and community involvement initiatives

Responsibilities

The Role

You will be joining a small, newly formed but highly visible Business Operations Team to lead and deliver the most strategic and high-impact initiatives in the company’s history. These projects are complex, high-priority, and carry multi-million dollar budgets. You will be the key driving force behind them—turning bold ideas into action and action into results.

AAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a highly skilled and technically strong Engineering Team Lead to serve as the go-to technical coach, solution designer, and daily mentor within our agile product delivery teams. This is a player-coach role focused on guiding engineers, shaping solutions, enforcing technical best practices, and ensuring delivery quality, without direct people management responsibilities

The ideal candidate will possess deep software engineering expertise, a passion for quality, and the leadership presence to influence and elevate others around them. This individual will be critical in driving forward our modernization efforts, improving team execution, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

The Next Phase

Our mission is to provide those services for as many people as we can. To achieve that we need to evolve. We need to boldly embrace innovation and technology. Your leadership will help us deliver on our mission together and achieve our transformation. At AAA Life, empathy and progress go hand in hand, creating a culture where bright ideas flourish and meaningful impact grows. If you are drawn to an environment that values purpose as much as potential, we invite you to join us. Because here, being there for people isn’t just a promise—it is our driving force.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead by example in technical execution, architecture decisions, and quality standards across backend, frontend, and integration workstreams.
• Serve as technical mentor and daily coach to a cross-functional team of engineers, offering code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on support.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, QA, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Act as a bridge between architecture and delivery, helping to implement future-state patterns and decompose legacy systems.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure coding.
• Identify and escalate technical blockers and risks early, proposing options and tradeoffs.
• Participate in solutioning sessions, backlog refinement, and sprint planning as a technical authority and delivery advocate.
• Contribute actively to the engineering community of practice at AAA Life, helping elevate coding standards and shared knowledge.

Core Competencies – How You Will Contribute

• Leadership
• Manage strategic multi-million dollar Operations projects
• Develop Operations data driven dashboard
• Support Management of Operations Functions
• Manage Operations Vendors and Budgets
• Collaborate with Leadership

Qualifications

Required Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
• Strong expertise in modern development frameworks and platforms (Java, .NET, Spring Boot, React/Angular, REST APIs, cloud-native).
• Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), DevOps, and modern CI/CD toolchains (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Proven ability to lead through influence, drive decision-making, and mentor peers without formal authority.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and integrating with enterprise platforms (e.g., FAST, Guidewire, or similar) is a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred past experience in Insurance or Finance Industry.
• Experience in managing the technical contributions of third-party vendors.

Essential Job Functions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements. Reasonable accommodation will be provided for otherwise qualified applicants as needed to enable them to fulfill these requirements.

AAA Life Insurance Company does not offer immigration sponsorship for this position. This includes visa types such as H-1B, TN, and STEM OPT. Please do not apply if you currently require or may require employer-sponsored immigration support now or in the future.

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