Principal Software Developer
About The Position
A mid-sized insurance company is seeking experienced software innovators to enhance their development efforts for a cloud-first, API-driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. This role is ideal for experienced developers who are well-versed in the development environment and eager to share their expertise by mentoring and guiding other team members. Developers will participate as both technical experts and individual contributors, supporting other team members by leading design, planning, and resolution of roadblocks. Through close collaboration with contributors at various levels, they will build deep domain expertise and serve as technical subject matter experts (SMEs) with broad technical influence across projects and teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/related field or equivalent working experience
- 10+ years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C#
- Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and .NET
- 3+ years of experience contributing in a technical role
- Enterprise level system architecture experience, designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes
- Enterprise level design and configuration of cloud services including serverless, data storage, messaging, logging, etc., preferably with Azure
- Experience with design and implementation of both monolithic and microservice architectures
- Experience designing reliable and performant data storage solutions and schemas utilizing cloud technologies including SQL DBs, Document DBs, and unstructured data
- Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines supporting Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
- Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams
Nice To Haves
- Commercial Property and Casualty insurance experience
- Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, and .NET Core
- Experience with TypeScript and SPA frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Contribute as a technical resource on a cross-functional, agile development team including members from development, quality assurance, and business analysts
- Serve as technical SME for a particular domain within the overall platform
- Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, demos, and group/1:1 coaching
- Design system features to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
- Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
- Collaborate with Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
- Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
- Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team
- Deliver regular and frequent code contributions aligned with User Stories and sprint goals
- Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA resources to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features
- Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
- Ensure that the team thinks with a security first mindset
- Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
- Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
- Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)
Benefits
- Medical (PPO/HDHP)
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Enhanced dental plan with orthodontia coverage
- Generous PTO plan
- Paid company holidays
- 4 floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Retirement Savings Plan/401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
- Education Assistance Program that offers 100% upfront tuition reimbursement after 6 months of service for approved degree programs
- Service Recognition Program that provides a monetary award to be used toward a vacation every 5 years of employment
- Wellness Initiatives that include Fitness Center and Weight Watchers Reimbursement programs
- Voluntary benefits that include accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity
- Employee discount and rewards program on travel, tickets, electronics, home, and more
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
