Software Engineer II - Technical Lead (JavaScript, React, Java)

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

$115,700.00 - $190,900.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Software Engineer II to join our organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. Individual will complete advanced end to end engineering tasks for specific system assignments including designing, developing, analyzing, configuring, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, documenting, health monitoring/alerting, and implementing based on user or system specifications, consulting with users to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications, managing interaction between the systems and other technical support areas and defining technical requirements and coordinating team resources to solve problems.

What Will You Do?

• Perform analysis, design, development, and configuration functions (includes defining technical requirements) with a high degree of accuracy and speed, operating as an individual contributor to team goals.
• Perform analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of advanced complexity and escalate appropriately.
• Work independently to tackle well-scoped and loosely scoped problems.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced employees.
• Participate in business requirements and functional requirements gathering, which involves a review of existing systems configurations and operating methodologies as well as understanding evolving business needs.
• Work with stakeholders on system design and architecture
• Participate in Feature/Work Breakdown, Create technical Stories and provide estimates for the feature/work.
• Work with PO on ranking/prioritizing the backlog.
• Work with Developers to ensure Technical Stories are being refined on time so that we can maintain a healthy backlog.
• Provide technical leadership to the application development team, guiding them towards successful, timely project delivery.
• Lead code and quality management reviews.
• Oversee and fix any defects or performance problems discovered in testing.
• Provide primary support for installation of application releases into production.
• Co-Ordinate Code Merge activities.
• Co-Ordinate with DevOps on release activities – package details, and syncing packages to lower environments.
• Ensure technical design documents are maintained as per project Life Cycle and uploaded in Jira and Confluence.
• Ensure all documents are version controlled and ready for client reviews/audits.
• Conducting Trainings to upskill resources within the team.
• Mentor Junior resources in team.
• Provide status updates and presentations to stakeholders.
• Participate in Engineering Chapter initiatives to improve Software Engineering practices across the organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Four years of programming/development experience preferred.
• Experience with JavaScript, React JS, Java, .NET, Lambda, and unit testing preferred.
• 2 or more years of leadership experience preferred.
• Delivery - Intermediate delivery skills including the ability to estimate accurate timelines for tasks and deliver work at a steady, predictable pace to achieve commitments, contribute to the software design strategy and methodologies used to best meet the system requirements, consider and build for many different use cases, avoid over engineering, and ensure automation, deliver complete solutions but release them in small batches, and identify important tradeoffs and negotiate them.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including