Staff Software Engineer

The Hartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Technology Team. This hybrid role requires delivering small to medium software products with end-to-end ownership, influencing solution architecture, and leading enterprise CI/CD initiatives.

Experience across AWS IaC, cloud-native design, and DevOps practices is essential. The position offers collaboration across teams and opportunities to mentor others in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using IaC (AWS CDK or similar).
• Design and support enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and cloud-native applications.
• Experience supporting mission-critical customer-facing platforms.
• AWS certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of small to medium software products.
• End-to-end solution delivery across platforms and technologies.
• Influence software design and architecture across the product team.
• Lead DevOps practices and tooling decisions; mentor teammates.
• Promote code quality, automated testing, and environment management.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native development

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Amazon Connect

Genesys

NICE CXone

Five9

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - IE07IE

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

The Hartford is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Technology Team.

The Hartford is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Technology Team.

Role Responsibilities

• Accountable for a small or medium scale software product.
• End to End solution delivery involving multiple platforms and technologies with small to medium complexity or certain sub-systems of large, complex implementations.
• Provides significant input to influence application solution architecture. Accountable for software designs across product team.
• Build and implement capabilities for continuous integration and continuous delivery aligned with Enterprise DevOps practices. -Accountable for team development and pipeline tool decisions. -Accountable for Software engineering practices e.g.
• Source code management, branching, issue tracking etc., followed for the product.
• Technical leadership responsibility for hiring, mentoring and culture etc. at a product team level. Actively collaborates with team members to drive team outcomes. Accountable for team Engineering Culture.
• All the skills of previous tier. Five or more years of experience.
• Collaboration across teams, decision making, conflict resolution and relationship building. Design and development skills extend to service design patterns, APIs, UI/UX frameworks.
• Expertise in software packaging tools and artifact management tools. -Infrastructure architecture and configuration skills for effective operations support.
• Technical documentation review.
• Thought leadership to drive continuous improvement, pragmatic deliberations and root cause problem solving. Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Focus on collaboration, help each other to solve problems.
• Value employee efforts and recognize their contribution.
• Define Software Engineering Practices followed for the product.
• Review and refine any tools and processes for quality governance. Collaborate with the team to mature Code quality management, automated testing, and environment management practices to deliver incremental customer value.
• Develop and promote best practices for continuous improvement.

Desired Experience

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD solutions and software delivery pipelines.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and cloud-native application development.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical customer-facing platforms.
• Experience with contact center technologies such as Amazon Connect, Genesys, NICE CXone or Five9 is a plus.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer, or Amazon Connect) preferred.

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

$116,000 - $174,000

Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age