Application Engineer II

Location: Bangalore, India

Application Engineer II

Are you a frontend engineer who loves crafting elegant, high-performing applications that make a real difference? If you're passionate about Angular, engineering excellence, and building products that users actually love — this could be your next great adventure. Join us in Bangalore and be part of a team where quality, innovation, and collaboration are not just buzzwords — they're the way we work.

About the Role

You'll be at the heart of developing and maintaining sophisticated in-house insurance products built primarily with Angular. As part of one of our dynamic product teams, you'll contribute to building functionality that generates real, measurable business impact. This is a role for someone who takes pride in their craft, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is excited to shape the future of frontend engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Build high-quality frontend applications – Develop, review, and maintain clean, reusable, and performant UI code that adheres to established engineering standards and best practices.

Collaborate across cross-functional teams – Partner closely with product owners, requirements engineers, QA specialists, designers, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive and seamless user experiences.

Shape frontend architecture – Contribute to and influence frontend design decisions, component architecture, and technical standards to ensure applications are scalable, maintainable, and future-ready.

Drive frontend integration and reusability – Integrate APIs and shared services while leveraging reusable UI components, design systems, authentication frameworks, and observability solutions.

Champion engineering excellence and innovation – Advocate for automated testing, accessibility, performance optimisation, and the adoption of modern frontend technologies and Generative AI to continuously improve engineering productivity and quality.

About the Team

We are a team that believes deeply in engineering excellence — and that great leaders are engineers at heart. We build applications that are carefully designed, thoughtfully implemented, and consistently surpass the expectations of our users. Working hand-in-hand with product owners, we treat quality and stability as first-class deliverables in everything we do. We lead by example, embedding high standards into our processes and fostering a culture where every team member's contribution matters.

About You

You're a naturally curious and thoughtful professional who thrives in a high-performance engineering environment. Your passion for coding is matched by your commitment to delivering real business value. You believe in continuous learning — whether through self-improvement or by absorbing knowledge from the talented people around you — and you're genuinely excited to contribute to a team that values technical excellence above all else.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

Proficiency in Angular, HTML & CSS across the entire software delivery lifecycle, with a strong command of modern frontend development practices.

Experience with module bundlers such as Webpack, Node, or Browserify for building and packaging scalable frontend modules.

Hands-on public cloud experience , particularly with Microsoft Azure , and the ability to work confidently within cloud-native environments.

These are additional nice to haves:

Strong understanding of RESTful APIs , OpenAPI specification, and Swagger for seamless frontend-backend integration.

Comfort working extensively within an IDE and navigating large, established codebases with confidence and efficiency.

Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and a commitment to writing testable, reliable code.

Experience with design systems and accessibility standards to ensure inclusive and consistent user experiences.

An interest in or exposure to Generative AI tools that enhance developer productivity and engineering workflows.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

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