Sr. Software Engineer (Vue/Django/Postgres)

Vertafore, Inc.; Denver (CO); Híbrido; USD 85.000 - 135.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vertafore, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer in Denver to shape and improve the experience for key customers. You will collaborate with Customer Support, Account Management, Product Management, and Product Development to guide customers and contribute to team growth.

You will join a fast-paced team of analysts and engineers, delivering features across the stack, mentoring juniors, and mentoring leadership while embracing new technologies and industry trends in a regulated insurance domain.

Formación

• Strong communication, written and verbal.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and collaborate with global teams.
• Self-starter with attention to detail and deadline-driven.

Responsabilidades

• Develop features for full-stack web applications frontend and backend.
• Design, document, and implement technical specifications from business requirements.
• Lead junior developers and provide feedback to leadership.
• Build and support AI-enabled product features using Python-based tools.
• Troubleshoot across the stack and ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Vertafore.

Conocimientos

Full-stack development

Python

AI-enabled features

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Herramientas

Orchestration frameworks

Descripción del empleo

$85,000 - $135,000

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.

Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

As a Sr. 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:

• Comfortable working on full-stack web application, developing features spanning both frontend and backend
• Innovates and crafts clean code
• Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and/or specifications
• Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing
• Working on/with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision
• Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership
• Mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
• Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need
• Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders
• Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team
• Design, build, test, and support AI-enabled product features using Python-based agent and orchestration frameworks.
• Develops new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features
• Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack
• Ensures quality of code within the team written and assists in code reviews
• Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
• Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
• Follows industry trends and the open-source community
• Helping our customer facing team with technical issues that our customers may be facing
• Willing to learn the technical complexities that come with a highly regulated industry such as insurance
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity while maintaining responsibility for code quality, security, and correctness.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner
• Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation
• Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven
• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations.
• Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• 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, security. and performance
• Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members.
• 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
• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions
• Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions