Principal Engineer, Test Automation platform

Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering 

Global Core Platform Engineering (GCPE) team's mission is to develop scalable Platforms and Products that deliver Underwriting solutions with high speed, quality and performance. In addition, as platform engineering team our goal is to deliver an industry leading, frictionless engineering experience to our software and quality engineers enabling them to deliver highest quality software solutions at speed and with cloud scale performance.

Engineering Effectiveness & Quality engineering team, part of GCPE, provides internal developer experiences and products to improve engineering teams overall productivity. Our product portfolio includes solutions for providing smooth onboarding for engineers, knowledge portal, engineering health score card, unified product/api catalog, knowledge & collaboration portal and test automation platforms.

 As a Principal Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for leading the architecture, design, development and launch of some of the core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. 

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrated track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead on the Test Automation and Engineering Effectiveness platforms and some of the cross-functional projects.
• Passionate to learn and craftmanship in designing and building high quality software solutions that can stand the test of time, stress, and variety of enhancement requests.
• Experience building mission critical platforms using Java/.Net, Python, and Web Technologies
• Experience designing and developing software/automation solutions using Java (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Selenium, .Net Core, microservices etc.), relational database (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.), web technologies (Angular, React, Nodejs, JS, HTML etc.).
• Experience writing clearly intended, scalable, high performant, instrumented and clean code
• Experience working in an Agile development environment with experience/knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD (Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, Ansible, docker etc.)
• Effectively research and benchmark Chubb technology against competing systems in the industry.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over the core platform teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your knowledge and experience.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of working experience on spring boot/.net core, java/.net full stack development.
• Experience developing cloud native solutions on Azure and aware of docker containers, Kubernetes, Kafka, Azure Cosmos DB, Mongo DB, CI/CD tools 
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in building solutions for enterprise developer experiences (IDP) and/or test automation platforms (selenium/ load runner / playwright)
• Published Patents and/or white papers on latest technology topics
• Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non-technical peer

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling exp