Cloud Native Developer Practice Lead & Supervisor

Location: Cincinnati, OH (USA)

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

We're looking for collaborative, full-stack developers who are passionate AI champions and change agents - engineers with strong backend experience in Java/Spring Boot, .NET, or both, who love close collaboration, embrace XP practices, and adapt comfortably to frequent context switching. You lead from wherever you sit, bringing others along as you introduce new ways of working and help teams rethink how software gets built in an AI-augmented world. You stay ahead of the curve, embrace new tools as the industry evolves, and are genuinely curious about where software development is headed. You see AI as a fundamental shift in how great software gets built, and you're excited to help shape what that looks like in practice. If you thrive in a fast-moving, team-first environment and get energized by solving hard problems together, we'd love to hear from you.

In the Developer Practice Lead role, you enable and coach teams throughout our organization, championing modern development practices and guiding teams toward delivery excellence. You'll be a driving force behind our AI-first delivery approach - pioneering how our teams leverage AI across the software development lifecycle, evaluating emerging tools and techniques, and establishing the practices, patterns, and guardrails that let us move faster without sacrificing quality. You'll own our internal playbook for AI-assisted development and be the go-to voice for how our teams adopt, evaluate, and scale new AI capabilities. Acting as a bridge between practitioners and architects, you ensure alignment with organizational goals while cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation. As AI continues to reshape our industry, you won't just keep pace - you'll set the direction, empowering every team to deliver with speed, quality, and confidence in an AI-augmented world.

As a Developer Supervisor, approximately 10% of your time will be dedicated to the growth and success of your direct reports. You'll coach and mentor developers at all experience levels, hold regular 1:1s focused on career growth and feedback, and partner with each team member on individual development plans aligned to their goals. You'll conduct performance reviews, participate in hiring and interviewing, and foster a culture of continuous learning — helping every developer on your team progress toward the next stage of their career.

We also know that job descriptions can be intimidating. If you don't tick every box, apply anyway - we care more about who you are than whether you match a checklist perfectly.

Great American’s culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. To support this, employees in this role are expected to be on-site a minimum of three days a week if local to Cincinnati, with the potential to work two days remotely. Core in‑office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday but will be determined by business needs. 

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Ability to dive into large, polyglot codebases and contribute quickly while you learn.

• Comfortable working across multiple programming languages and paradigms.

• Genuinely curious about new languages, patterns, and ways of thinking about problems.

• Experience leveraging AI coding tools tactically and strategically throughout your engineering workflow, with a particular emphasis on agentic approaches.

• Demonstrable ability to research and break down complex problems into discrete, actionable parts.

• Empathy for your colleagues and a habit of giving and receiving feedback openly and continuously.

• Enthusiastic about (or at least open to) Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Experience in a pair programming environment (preferred).

• Experience supporting and troubleshooting complex systems, with the ability to dig into logs, metrics, and streaming data to diagnose issues quickly.

• Has mentored others in a professional setting.

• Experience in the Insurance industry (major plus).

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 8 years of professional programming experience.

Desired Practice Lead Responsibilities & Competencies:

• Partner with fellow practice leads to set the north star for architectural patterns, design principles, and implementation standards, bridging practitioners and architects to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

• Continuously assess development practices and drive improvements, pairing with teams to teach modern techniques and XP practices.

• Champion and scale AI-first delivery across the organization — evaluating emerging tools, establishing practices and guardrails, and owning our internal playbook for AI-assisted development.

• Bring deep technical expertise across the full stack (Java/Spring Boot, .NET, or both), connecting business domain context to architectural design within our AI toolset.

• Act as a change agent, cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and curiosity about where software development is headed.

People Leadership Responsibilities & Competencies:

• Dedicate ~10% of your time to growing your direct reports through coaching, mentoring, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Hold regular 1:1s focused on career growth, feedback, and removing blockers.

• Create individual development plans and identify stretch opportunities aligned to each developer's goals.

• Conduct performance reviews and support compensation decisions.

• Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding new developers.

Languages and Frameworks: Java/Spring Boot, .NET 8+, VueJS, Testing Frameworks (unit and acceptance), Python (preferred)

Core Tools: Git, Github Copilot (CLI preferred); IDEs like IntelliJ, VS Code; Visual Studio with Resharper or Rider; Relational Databases / NoSQL Databases; Redis; RabbitMQ

Platforms:Cloud Native Platforms (like Pivotal Cloud Foundry/Tanzu Application Service, Azure/Kubernetes), GitHub, GitHub Actions including CI/CD pipelines

Business Unit:

Benefits:

We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at http://www.gaig.com/careers.

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.