Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

$100,000 - $147,000 + VIP Bonus

$100,000 - $147,000 / year + Bonus

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 a Sr. Software Engineer, you will shape and improve the experience of key Vertafore customers. You will work cross-functionally across Vertafore, including Customer Support, Account Management, Product Management and Product Development to help guide customers and also contribute to the future growth of your team.

You will work with a fast-paced, skilled team of business analysts, conversion engineers, developers and quality assurance engineers across multiple high-profile projects with development responsibility of assigned projects. Much of your success in this role will be dependent upon timely, clear, concise and effective verbal and written communication along with development of solutions that fully meet customer expectations with no / minimal defects or rework.

Although not a primary duty compared to developing and supporting code, a software engineer at Vertafore also works directly with customers as part of a cross-functional team, which means you need to be a proactive self-starter, able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be service-focused to help nurture the customer experience. Additionally, you're a mentor and consultant, as well as a customer champion within Vertafore.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities :

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

Innovates and crafts clean code

Confidently work with customers to describe technical concepts and recommend appropriate solutions whether pure custom or a mix of custom and core Vertafore products

Assist business analysts as needed with reviewing request information and documenting solution designs that align with customer expectations and business objectives / requirements

Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and / or specifications

Create advanced tables, views, stored procedures, indexes, constraints, cursors, user defined functions and triggers using T-SQL and SSMS

Optimize query performance and tuning indexes using Query Analyzer and other tools

Extract, transform and load (ETL) data

Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing

Develop automated solution deployments as appropriate

Deploy developed solutions within non-production environments and assist with Vertafore production release deployments

Working on / with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision

Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership

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

Develops new features and supporting / bug fixing existing features

Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack – OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network; Provides solutions for complex, ambiguous problems through multiple stacks and products

Ensures quality of code within the team written or reviewed

Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development

Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally

Follows industry trends and the open-source community

Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts

Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues

Excellent written and verbal communication skills (internal and external customers / partners)

Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner

Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation

Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven

Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations, internally and externally.

Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills

An innate curiosity about how things work; Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues.

Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance

Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members.

Able to work with global, distributed teams

In-tune with high performance and high availability design / programming

Highly proficient with multiple database technologies

Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level

Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions

Qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in computer related field

Minimum 5 years of professional experience with Java / .NET and common frameworks.

Experience working in an Agile environment required

3+ years of experience in security best practices for software and data platforms required

3+ years of experience with Restful APIs required

3+ years of experience with design, architecture, and implementation at an enterprise level required

Experience with Angular or similar technology preferred3+ years of experience with database technologies (e.g., Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Cassandra, etc.)

Experience with Identity and Access Management preferred

Additional Requirements and Details :

Travel required up to 10% of the time.

WFH Flexible

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.

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THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

• Bias to Action : We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together : We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious : We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It : We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success : We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance : We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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