Sr Software Engineer

Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer for our Digital Transformation team, you will play a key technical role leading a team of developers to design, build and implement modern solutions in our core insurance platforms for Auto line of business, involving APIs and UIs that will be leveraged across the business. You will be responsible for leading a small, high-performing team of developers and quality engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient software solutions.

This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to modern agile development practices. You'll be both hands-on and strategic, diving deep into code to define system solutions and ensure its correct implementation, and establishing technical roadmaps that you and the developers on your team will act upon to deliver quality and scalable software solutions.

The person on this role should have a passion to understand and apply software engineering and architectural design patterns for modern solutions, while learning how to manage and prioritize technology decisions over a portfolio of applications and drive modernization initiatives.

As a lead role within the software engineering organization, this person is expected to coach and mentor other members of the extended team and have the ability to communicate and negotiate within other senior technical and business leaders in order to articulate the right prioritization of activities.

The person in this role will be accountable for:

• Able to provide technical excellence while embracing flexibility over building "bulletproof" systems
• Build, maintain and implement complex, large-scale applications capable of integrating with multiple internal/external systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve complex problems.
• Engage in and lead development efforts across the full SDLC from design and coding through to test, build, QA, deployment, and maintenance
• Design and implement automation solutions to continuously integrate and deploy code of complex, large-scale applications both on-premises and in cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into consumable technical stories and software solutions.
• Perform code reviews to ensure high-quality standards are met.
• Mentor a team of software developers to build quality software solutions aligned to architecture guidelines, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Partner with Product Owner, architects and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into consumable technical stories, specifications and software solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on, full-stack development experience building end-to-end software applications, with a minimum of 2 years in a Senior or Lead technical role.
• 6+ years of experience and proficiency designing and building solutions utilizing Java 17+, Spring boot or Quarkus framework, Angular 18+, Gthub, Kafka (or equivalent), Jenkins and CI/CD practices.
• Deep understanding of SQL Server, including database design models, database performance optimization and the ability to develop and maintain Indexes, Views, Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions.
• Demonstrated experience developing REST based APIs using Microservice or Service Oriented architecture, Open API Specification and/or creating specifications w/Swagger
• Solid understanding of Software Engineering and design patterns and their implementation
• Experience in enterprise / legacy middleware and B2B integration patterns (batch and online), including event driven and messaging.