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