What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer (Java) position at Vertafore Career Center?
$135000 - $165000 / 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 Principal 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:
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Innovates and crafts clean code
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Helps lead and mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
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Coordinates with Experience Design and software development teams across the department in designing and implementing pragmatic and best-fit solutions
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Takes ownership of vision and development of technologies, infrastructure, and common components across our tech stack.
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Mentors other developers and teams
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Fosters and develops a community of practice across the entire development organization
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Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies and processes ensuring highest quality product platform
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Provides support for existing products and developing new products
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Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
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Troubleshoot code problems quickly and efficiently.
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Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts
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Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
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Lead, join in, and shepherd teams through implementation goals including fostering best practices in creation of code
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
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Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversation, internally and externally.
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Strategic problem solver, analytical, with critical thinking skills
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An innate curiosity about how things work; Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues.
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Able to define, communicate and ensure adherence to quality/technical team standards
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Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, and security. and performance
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Must be able to work with global, distributed teams
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In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
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Highly proficient with multiple database tehcnologies
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Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level
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Must be able to work with and help non-development departments communicate with development depart
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Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions
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Mentor, lead, and direct multiple teams in implementation best practices
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lead collaboration with the business, designing pragmatic solutions
Qualifications:
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Minimum 10 years of professional experience with Java/.NET and common frameworks.
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Experience working in an Agile environment required
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Degree in computer science, engineering or related field required
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5 years of experience in security best practices for software and data platforms required
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5 years of experience with Restful APIs required
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5 years of experience with design, architecture, and implementation at an enterprise level required
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Experience with Angular or similar technology required
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5 years of experience with database technologies (e.g., Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, etc.)
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Have experience working in an Agile environment
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Have experience with .NET
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Have degree in Computer Science or similar valuable experience
Additional Requirements and Details:
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Travel required up to 10% of the time.
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WFH Flexible
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Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
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Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
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Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
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Frequent sitting and/or standing.
Salary : $135,000 - $165,000
