Principal Software Engineer (Frontend Focus - React/Typescript)

Vertafore•Denver, CO

2d•Remote

About The Position

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a strategic leadership role in the architecture and development of modern, high-impact web applications. You will work hands-on with cutting-edge front-end technologies—especially React 19—while mentoring teams, defining technical direction, and driving engineering excellence across the organization. You will lead the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems, shape our design system and component architecture, and evolve our platform capabilities to support a diverse ecosystem of applications. You will also champion innovation, strong engineering culture, and continuous learning. If you thrive on solving complex UI engineering challenges, love React, and enjoy mentoring and influencing large-scale technical direction, this role is for you.

Requirements

5–10 years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on frontend development using React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, Web APIs, and modern application architectures.
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
Highly proficient with multiple database technologies
Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level
Must be 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
Experience or exposure to Backend for Frontend (BFF) architectures.
Experience migrating legacy UI frameworks (Angular, ExtJS, WinForms) to modern React
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 degree in Computer Science or similar valuable experience

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance React 19 applications using modern component patterns, concurrent features, and optimized rendering flows.
Innovates and crafts clean code
Helps lead and mitigates 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.
Build and optimize rich UI experiences using: React 19 concurrent features TypeScript
Define and evolve design-system-driven component architecture
Drive front-end performance optimization, including React Compiler
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
Provides support 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 as 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
Other duties as assigned