Senior Application Engineer - AI & Java Engineering (hybrid)

Job description

About the Role

You'll be at the heart of developing and maintaining our sophisticated in-house insurance platforms, built primarily with Java and Spring Boot, while increasingly leveraging AI to enhance both our products and the way we engineer software.

You will have the opportunity to join one of our platform teams and contribute to functionality that generates real business impact. This includes building AI-enabled solutions, integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms, and using AI-driven workflows throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Key Responsibilities

Develop business features and AI-enabled solutions that will be used by large user communities and generate measurable business value

Design and integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications, combining modern AI platforms with established Java-based systems

Apply AI-driven engineering workflows across the SDLC, using AI-assisted development, testing, code review, documentation, and other engineering practices to improve productivity and quality

Review and approve pull requests and enforce consistency, maintainability, security, and quality standards across the codebase

Collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams including requirements engineers, QA specialists, product owners, and other application engineers

Create architecture diagrams and technical designs that guide implementation and contribute to technology and architecture decisions

Integrate services and shared platforms including messaging systems, BPMN workflows, logging frameworks, telemetry solutions, and AI platforms

Stay current with emerging technologies and Generative AI developments, actively experimenting with new approaches and translating relevant innovations into practical engineering solutions

About the Team

We are a team that believes in engineering excellence and that our leaders should also be engineers themselves. We build applications that are carefully designed, thoughtfully implemented, and surpass the expectations of our users by working hand-in-hand with product owners.

We embrace AI as an important part of modern software engineering—both as a capability within our products and as a tool that changes how software is designed, developed, tested, and maintained. At the same time, strong engineering fundamentals remain essential. Quality and stability are first-class deliverables in everything we do, and we lead by example by embedding high standards into our processes.

About You

You're a naturally curious and thoughtful engineer who thrives in a high-performance engineering environment. Your passion for coding is matched by your interest in AI and your commitment to delivering business value.

You are comfortable working with established enterprise systems while exploring new technologies and engineering approaches. You actively use modern AI tools to improve how you work and understand that effective AI-assisted development requires strong engineering judgment, architecture principles, and quality standards.

You believe in continuous learning—whether through self-improvement, experimentation, or absorbing knowledge from those around you—and you're excited to contribute to a team that values technical excellence and innovation.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

Expert knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, with proven experience across the entire software delivery lifecycle

Hands-on experience building or integrating AI-enabled solutions into applications and enterprise systems

Practical experience using AI-driven development workflows and tools across the SDLC

Experience with Microsoft Foundry or Palantir Foundry for developing, integrating, or operating AI solutions

Previous public cloud experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure

Comfort and proficiency working with large and established codebases

These are additional nice to haves:

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with insurance domain concepts and business processes

Experience mentoring junior developers and contributing to team growth

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between 3 800 EUR and 6 300 EUR] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:​

· the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, ​

· the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.​

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity,