Sr. Software Engineer (Remote)

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the senior software engineer embedded in an energetic agile team of Software and QA Engineers, you will lead the team in creating software products utilizing state-of-the-art technologies. You will be hands on, involved in designing applications and flexible services that expose core capabilities to different applications and user bases, and leading teams to achieve the vision through active mentoring, technical decision-making, and facilitating company-wide collaboration. All of this will be accomplished with cutting-edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success, and fun. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.

Core Responsibilities:

Essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Understands and mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
• Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need
• Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders
• Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team
• Responsible for developing new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack – OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network
• Acts as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
• Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
• Closely follow industry trends and the open-source community

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ensures quality of code within the team written or reviewed
• Define and adhere to quality/technical team standards
• Makes decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance
• Able to diagnose issues and provide solutions for complex, ambiguous problems
• Can independently frame problems and perform relevant research
• Curious and avid learners
• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions
• Self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers
• Driven to improve, personally and professionally
• Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them
• Collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions
• Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment
• Prepare technical training and information sessions for other staff

Core Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of professional experience with Java, Java Spring, and other common frameworks
• Very strong in design, architecture, and implementation at an enterprise level
• Experience with Agile software development
• Experience with Restful APIs
• Have an intense passion for innovating and crafting clean code and mentoring their teams
• Experience with Angular or similar
• Ability to work advanced database magic with relational and NoSQL databases
• In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
• Have experience in security best practices for software and data platforms
• Enjoy solving problems through the entire application stack
• Are interested and capable of learning other programming languages as needed
• Collaborate with engineering teams and business units to drive business growth and customer delight

Additional Requirements and Details:

• $1,000 Signing Bonus
• Ability to work remotely with a stable internet connection
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.)
• Frequent sitting and/or standing