Software Engineer II (Design Systems, JavaScript, Accessibility)

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

$117,200.00 - $193,400.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Software Engineer II to join its Design System team. The Travelers Design system is a fully mature, comprehensive library utilized by hundreds of application teams across the enterprise. The team prides itself on delivering well-crafted, accessible patterns to enable unified experiences across products and platforms. A software engineer II on this team will complete advanced front-end engineering tasks including designing, developing, testing, and documenting updates to the Design System. The engineer will also assist with troubleshooting product team implementations and providing general front-end expertise to the community of engineers at Travelers when required.

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.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced employees.
• Create WCAG 2.2 accessible components for the Travelers Design System, using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript. Any experience with Web Components, Stencil.js, React, and Angular will be applicable in this work.
• Work independently to tackle well-scoped and loosely scoped problems, working closely with Experience Design team members to determine the best possible component feature sets.
• Write documentation for our engineering customers clearly and concisely to make our components easy to implement and maintain.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities, including staying familiar with new front-end techniques as they become available.
• Be a resource for other development teams to implement components owned by the design system and assist with ensuring accessibility in custom components coded by application teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Four years of programming/development experience preferred.
• In-depth understanding of accessibility standards and guidelines, particularly in building and testing for WCAG 2.0 standards is highly preferred.
• Experience with at least one of the following is preferred: Web Components, React, or Angular.
• Experience with Stencil.js is appreciated but not required.
• Familiarity with design concepts such as typography and color theory or tools like Figma are appreciated.
• 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 understanding technical concepts necessary to do the job effectively and aware of industry trends, demonstrate willingness, cooperation, and concern for business issues and priorities, and possess in depth knowledge of immediate systems worked on and some knowledge of adjacent systems.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who ensures solutions are built for the long term, is able to resolve new issues, recognizes mistakes using them as learning and teaching opportunities and consistently breaks down large problems into smaller,