Senior Associate Software Engineer
About The Position
InsuraMatch, an independent agency company owned by Travelers Insurance, uses an online platform to help consumers compare offerings from more than 40 carriers across the United States. Focused on personal insurance, it offers coverage for auto, home, boat, motorcycle, renters, umbrella, and flood insurance. InsuraMatch operates independently and manages its carrier partnerships. The Senior Associate Software Engineer supports applications, systems, and platforms used for acquisition targeting, retention modeling, predictive analytics, call routing, data architecture, and data analysis. The role collaborates with the InsuraMatch team and leadership to develop scalable, performant, and secure solutions that support business growth, profitability, and customer growth. Work is performed under general supervision.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent work or military experience.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Creative thinking and the ability to synthesize information from various sources and apply it to business problems.
- Strong people skills and the ability to work with people at all organizational levels and get things done through influence and persuasion.
- Attention to detail and interest in large data-crunching projects.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with cloud computing services such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft Azure.
- System administration experience in UNIX/Linux and Windows environments.
- Knowledge of MySQL relational databases, SQL queries, and schema design.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Knowledge of information security best practices.
- Development skills in technologies such as React, Angular, Node.js, or TypeScript.
- Knowledge of agile development practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git.
- Knowledge of test-driven development and/or behavior-driven development.
- Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.
- Experience with Chef, Puppet, or other automated deployment methodologies.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including security and systems design.
- Understanding of implementing and operating IT infrastructure, such as servers, networks, and storage; public-cloud experience is a major plus.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the InsuraMatch team to conceive and develop scalable, performant, and secure solutions.
- Perform analysis, development, testing, debugging, configuration, incident investigation, documentation, health monitoring and alerting, and implementation based on user or system design specifications.
- Support and contribute to improvements to the development process.
- Provide tier-one support for cloud and physical networks, servers, operating systems, and processes.
- Monitor, manage, and administer serverless, Linux, and Windows computer platforms within team guidelines.
- Support technology operations, including production, deployment process automation, monitoring, and security.
- Ensure alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and the overall IT cloud strategy.
- Create and maintain build scripts, templates, and other infrastructure-stack artifacts.
- Support application migrations to cloud infrastructure and assist with analysis, tuning, and re-architecture as needed to meet business requirements.
- Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage for eligible employees and family members from the first day of employment.
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) matching on contributions up to the first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum.
- Paying it Forward Savings Program, with an annual Travelers contribution to the employee's 401(k) when they make a student-loan payment.
- A pension plan funded 100% by Travelers.
- At least 20 days of paid time off annually and nine paid company holidays.
- Wellness program with tools, discounts, resources, and caregiving support.
- Mental health program offering free professional counseling, health coaching, and other resources.
- Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
