The Senior Software Engineer operates as a senior/lead team member of a team, assisting assigned Insurance Carrier project teams (“our clients”) to implement, integrate, leverage and enhance the FAST platform. We rely on a dynamic team of engineers to create solutions for our rapidly evolving technical stack. We’re seeking a full stack developer who is smart, proactive, and results-oriented to build elegant solutions for the Life insurance industry's complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better.
The ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages for a SaaS application. The full stack developer will join a small team to solve challenges for both the front-end and back-end architecture, ultimately delivering amazing experiences for the Life insurance industry.
Objectives of this role
- Provide guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping them develop their technical skills, career growth, and problem-solving abilities
- Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
- Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project objectives
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design
- Develop new features and infrastructure in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
- Be a leading voice in the continuous modernization of the SaaS offering
- Be the primary point of contact with customers for all aspects of the FAST platform
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for technical discussions with senior management, other engineering teams, and business units.
- Translate complex technical topics into clear, understandable language for non-technical stakeholders both internally and for the customer.
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
- Design and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale leveraging SOA design principles on J2EE and .NET platforms
- Work primarily in technologies like .NET, Angular/REACT, Java Script, SQL Server, Postgres, etc.
- Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
- Develop next generation user interfaces for all applications and innovate on integration patterns using Microservice design
- Strong analytical skills to breakdown complex objectives and provide appropriate solutions within the context of the FAST application.
- A strong focus on delivering value to clients, ensuring that their needs are prioritized while balancing operational and regulatory constraints.
- Communication & Presentation: Excellent communication skills, particularly in articulating complex product features and benefits to clients in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Communication and Interpersonal skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information clearly to various stakeholders. Strong relationship-building skills to foster collaboration across departments.
Soft Skills and Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical skills to breakdown complex objectives and provide appropriate solutions within the context of the FAST application.
- A strong focus on delivering value to clients, ensuring that their needs are prioritized while balancing operational and regulatory constraints.
- Communication & Presentation: Excellent communication skills, particularly in articulating complex product features and benefits to clients in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Communication and Interpersonal skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information clearly to various stakeholders. Strong relationship-building skills to foster collaboration across departments.
Required Technical Skills and qualifications
- At least 5-7 of Industry experience in working and building large-scale software applications
- Experience in building web applications
- Demonstrated programing expertise in Java, C#, or .Net
- Experience with data design and working with relational databases (postgres, sqlserver)
- Experience with tuning stored procedures
- Strong skills with object-oriented programming and Enterprise software design principles
- Development experience with javascript frameworks (React, Angular, ExtJS) a plus
- Prior development utilizing SOA concepts and methodologies. Experience with Microfrontends and Microservices a plus
- Strong leader capable of motivating and energizing resources
- Prior leadership and/or management experience of on-shore and off-shore resources
- Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills
- Experience in unit/integration testing
- Experience with AWS Services
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Experience building configurable enterprise applications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or engineering (Masters a plus)
- Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies
- Professional certifications
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