Principal Software Engineer

About the role

The role of Principal Software Engineer at Vertafore involves shaping and improving the experience of key Vertafore customers. This includes working cross-functionally with Customer Support, Account Management, Product Management, and Product Development to guide customers and contribute to the future growth of the team.

Responsibilities

• Innovates and crafts clean code
• Helps lead and mitigate the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
• Coordinates with Experience Design and software development teams across the department in designing and implementing pragmatic and best-fit solutions
• Takes ownership of vision and development of technologies, infrastructure, and common components across our tech stack
• Mentors other developers and teams
• Fosters and develops a community of practice across the entire development organization
• Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies and processes ensuring highest quality product platform
• Supports for existing products and developing new products
• Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
• Troubleshoot code problems quickly and efficiently
• Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Works as a role model and mentors other team members
• Leads, joins in, and shepherds teams through implementation goals including fostering best practices in creation of code

Requirements

• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
• Strategic problem solver, analytical, with critical thinking skills
• An innate curiosity about how things work; 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, and security. and performance
• Must be able to work with global, distributed teams
• Highly proficient with multiple database technologies
• Able to work with and help non-development departments communicate with development depart
• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions
• Mentor, lead, and direct multiple teams in implementation best practices
• Lead collaboration with the business, designing pragmatic solutions

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience with Java/.NET and common frameworks
• Experience working in an Agile environment required
• Degree in computer science, engineering or related field required
• 5+ years of experience in security best practices for software and data platforms required
• 5+ years of experience with Restful APIs required
• 5+ years of experience with design, architecture, and implementation at an enterprise level required
• Experience with Angular or similar technology required
• 5+ years of experience with database technologies (e.g., Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, etc.)
• Have experience working in an Agile environment
• Have experience with .NET
• Have degree in Computer Science or similar valuable experience