Principal Software Engineer (Java & AWS)
About the role
The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations. Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity - speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale. With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.
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, architects, developers and quality assurance engineers across multiple high-profile projects with development responsibility of assigned projects.
Core Requirements And 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
- Is a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
- Lead, join in, and shepherd teams through implementation goals including fostering best practices in creation of code
- Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversation, internally and externally
- 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
- Able to define, communicate and ensure adherence to quality/technical team standards
- 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
- In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
- Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level
- Must be able to work with and help non-development departments communicate with development department
- 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 and common frameworks
- Strong experience building scalable, cloud-native (AWS preferred) data platforms
- 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.)
Additional Requirements And Details
- Travel required up to 10% of the time
- Located and working from an office location
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.)
- Frequent sitting and/or standing