Senior Software Engineer - Legal & Compliance

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$135,700.00 - $223,900.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Corporate Technology – Legal & Compliance organization as we grow and transform our Business Delivery and Technical landscape. As a Senior Software Engineer you will drive our ability to provide advanced and modernized technical solutions to our business partners. In this role, you will design, build and support technical solutions. This role will be responsible for best practice guidance and technical guidance of engineering peers.

What Will You Do?

• Advances and aligns the teams to enterprise standards and practices (AWS tag compliance, Semantic Versioning, API Governance compliance, Source code management, TDD, Code quality checks, Dependency management, Security and secrets management, Site reliability engineering)
• Implements and expands test automation providing direction and input into overall quality needs
• Demonstrates asset ownership and leadership of operational excellence
• Leads stakeholder conversations with partnership and understanding of business problems
• Communicates effectively and concisely with all team members and describes technology concepts in ways the business can understand their value
• Identifies learning opportunities and needs in connection with strategic imperatives for team members
• Take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to moderately complex, loosely scoped problems that are aligned with team goals.
• Deliver efforts both independently and by leading other team members.
• Lead investigation and resolution efforts for critical, high impact problems, defects, and incidents.
• Act as a technology advocate, independently seeking opportunities where technology can be utilized to improve the business.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship while fostering a team environment.
• Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Experience with some of the following tools & platforms (or similar): AWS (s3, Lambda, Kinesis, API Gateway, IAM, Glue, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, VPC, Step Functions, DynamoDB, RDS etc.), Python, SQL, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, EMR, JavaScript, Kafka, dbt, Terraform, Jenkins, Github, Airflow, OpenSearch (Elasticsearch & Kibana), Alation, Hashicorp Vault / AWS Secrets Manager, Docker, MongoDB
• Knowledge and experience with the some of the following concepts:   Real-time & Batch Data Processing, Workload Orchestration, Cloud, Datalakes, Data Security, Networking, Serverless, Testing/Test Automation (Unit, Integration, Performance, etc.), WebServices, DevOps, Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting, Containerization, Encryption / Decryption, Data Masking, Cost & Performance Optimization
• Proven record of collaborating on technical solutions with varying levels of engineers and technical knowledge.
• Interested in sharing knowledge to build engineering talent and strength within a team.
• Understanding and interest in applying engineering and industry best practices to technical solutions.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to develop business partnerships and influence priorities by identifying solutions that are aligned with current business objective and closely follow industry trends relevant to domain, understanding how to apply them, and sharing knowledge with coworkers.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find