Remote, US
1 day ago
Sr. Software Engineer (Surefyre)
$85,000 - $135,000 / year Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India. JOB DESCRIPTION   As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will shape and improve the experience of key Vertafore customers. You will work cross-functionally across Vertafore, including Customer Support, Account Management, Product Management and Product Development to help guide customers and also contribute to the future growth of your team.  You will work with a fast-paced, skilled team of business analysts, conversion engineers, developers and quality assurance engineers across multiple high-profile projects with development responsibility of assigned projects. Much of your success in this role will be dependent upon timely, clear, concise and effective verbal and written communication along with development of solutions that fully meet customer expectations with no/minimal defects or rework.  Although not a primary duty compared to developing and supporting code, a software engineer at Vertafore also works directly with customers as part of a cross-functional team, which means you need to be a proactive self-starter, able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be service-focused to help nurture the customer experience. Additionally, you're a mentor and consultant, as well as a customer champion within Vertafore.   Core Requirements and Responsibilities:  Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:      Comfortable working on full-stack web application, developing features spanning both frontend and backend  Innovates and crafts clean code  Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and/or specifications  Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing  Working on/with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision  Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership  Mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product  Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need  Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders  Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team  Develops new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features  Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack  Ensures quality of code within the team written and assists in code reviews    Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development  Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally  Follows industry trends and the open-source community  Helping our customer facing team with technical issues that our customers may be facing  Willing to learn the technical complexities that come with a highly regulated industry such as insurance     Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues  Excellent written and verbal communication skills  Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner  Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation  Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven  Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations.  Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills  Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues.  Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance  Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members.  Able to work with global, distributed teams  In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming  Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level  Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions  Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions 
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