What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer - Duck Creek position at coAction.com?
At Coaction, we're a unique mix of leaders, achievers, thinkers, and team players with a high-performance mindset and a diverse skillset. We bring our industry expertise together to continually push the boundaries of what insurance can be for our clients.
A Software Developer will build and enable new products and capabilities in the policy administration system. This role will have the responsibility to develop and implement using the Duck Creek Commercial Lines platform. The candidate will work closely with the architects, delivery, business analysts, QA, and support teams to understand business objectives and design and develop optimal solutions. The candidate will work with APIs, .Net, Duck Creek, SQL, XSLT and whatever other technologies necessary to design and implement solutions. The candidate must have a keen sense of autonomy, ambiguity management, adaptability, favors simplicity, a passion for problem solving, and must be highly collaborative.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement new capabilities, proprietary forms, and related business rules.
- Develop enhancements both small and large, which can include front-end, back-end, and integration layer development all while adhering to established coding, architectural and security practices.
- Partner with and assist in oversight of production support development resources to ensure quality of monthly releases.
- Support new product rollouts and configure system based on the business requirements.
- Build new or configure existing raters, setup tables, and implement rating algorithms.
- Maintain, implement, and utilize APIs (REST, SOAP, XML over HTTP) for various use cases such as system integrations and system customizations.
- Ensure coding standards, procedures, and principles are followed diligently and consistently.
- Monitor the performance of the application to look for opportunities for optimization
- Design, develop, unit test, support, and document changes, adhering to the development standards.
- Employ critical and innovative thinking to design and develop efficient and effective solutions.
- Perform root cause analysis and identify short and long-term solutions for technical and architectural issues.
- Perform unit and system testing to verify complete scenario coverage of code implementation.
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure that all changes are implemented per the specifications.
- Provide required support during quality assurance and user testing to ensure that the functionality is working as expected.
- Support ongoing monthly releases, platform, and template upgrade efforts as necessary.
- Work with the ETL and Data teams to accurately book policies and report externally.
- Keep abreast of Duck Creek product roadmap and the industry trends.
Qualifications
Candidates will be required to work on a hybrid schedule out of our Morristown, NJ office 3 days a week.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Coaction is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Coaction's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coaction also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.
