Senior Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer

 

General Description:

 

Creates and supports business solutions by contributing at a senior level in designing, re-designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring and documenting products/projects according to specifications for the insurance business.

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

 

Client Relationships and Communication

• Ensures that requirement statements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible and unambiguous.
• Interpersonal skills to establish good rapport, generate enthusiasm, negotiate priorities, and to resolve conflicts between various groups
• Ability to work across teams including business analysts, project managers, and QA team
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information to key people across the business
• Provides input to the Development Manager in the creation of project plans, estimates, and schedules
• Creates and delivers informative, well-organized presentations
• Ability to effectively communicate with third parties including data providers and software vendors

 

Requirements

• Produces comprehensive technical documentation

 

Impact Analysis

• Able to design systems using known design methodologies and best practices.
• Ability to design solutions that are easy to implement and maintain

 

Problem Solving

• Analyze requirements/issues and make recommendations for an optimum solution considering time and resource considerations
• Proactively finds and fixes quality issues and ensures that software applications are developed with minimal defects.
• Research, coordinate, and track problems to resolution
• Identifies critical issues with ease
• Exhibits confidence and extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
• Proactively offers suggestions for areas of improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
• Takes initiative identifying performance issues in production and offers solutions to correct them

 

Leadership and Project Management

• Mentors the junior members of the team with technical issues they might be facing.
• Proven capability to take initiative beyond the day-to-day components of the job
• Working knowledge of Project Management practices and processes
• Keeps up to date with latest technological trends and tools and makes recommendations on how it can be applied to our systems.

 

Qualifications and Education:

• Experience in the property and casualty insurance industry strongly preferred
• BA/BS degree required (computer science or related field preferred)
• A minimum of 5 years of Software Engineering-related experience
• Experience with designing, developing, testing, and implementing applications using the following technologies Java/J2EE environment, including Angular, TypeScript /JavaScript, CSS libraries such as Bootstrap, PrimeNG, Spring MVC, REST, JMS, JBOSS, ESB (Mule), JSON, and MyBatis, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Maven
• Experience with SQL language in DB2 and MS SQL Server
• Big plus AWS knowledge such as Lambda, S3, development of applications for AWS
• Develops solutions to improve performance and scalability of systems
• Exhibits level of flexibility and adaptability in the processes and techniques used to complete their work
• Well organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in order to meet demanding deadlines
• Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client’s organization and industry
• Analytical thinker who can make informed decisions quickly and manage multiple work streams

 

Perks and Benefits

• 4 weeks accrued paid time off + 9 paid national holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Low cost and excellent coverage health insurance op