Specialized Software Developer (APL) Life Insurance
About the position Alphanumeric is hiring a Specialized Software Developer (APL) to work remotely with an established organization with a strong presence in the financial services and insurance industries . This role will support the modernization of legacy actuarial and policy administration systems . The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on APL development experience , strong life insurance domain expertise , and the ability to analyze, stabilize, and enhance complex legacy systems while supporting migration to a modernized platform. This position is critical to maintaining existing APL-based policy administration and illustration tools while helping transition life insurance product functionality to next-generation systems.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance PC-based APL applications supporting life insurance policy administration and illustration tools
- Analyze and refactor complex legacy APL codebases to improve stability, performance, and maintainability
- Support the modernization and migration of life insurance products and functionality to a modern platform
- Collaborate with actuarial, business, and engineering teams to ensure accurate policy calculations and system behavior
- Perform code reviews, debugging, testing, and documentation for legacy systems
- Assist in translating legacy APL functionality into modern system architectures
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with APL development (PC-based environments)
- Life insurance industry experience , particularly with policy administration or illustration systems
- Experience working with legacy system modernization or migration initiatives
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess and stabilize complex legacy code
- Ability to work independently in a remote, distributed environment
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with VBA
- Exposure to actuarial systems, insurance product modeling, or illustration tools
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on high-impact modernization initiatives in the insurance industry
- Fully remote role
- Competitive hourly pay rate