Senior Software Engineer

Vantage Group Holdings•New York, NY

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Vantage Senior Software Engineer will be a part of an agile product team collaborating with the technology delivery manager (TDM), digital product managers (DPM), and other product team members on the Reinsurance team to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications, translating them into high-quality systems solving real business problems within the organization. This position will report to the Senior Vice President, Software Engineering and will be responsible for a small team of developers. The base salary expectation for this role is between $150,000 and $200,000. Actual base salary for the selected candidate may be higher commensurate with candidate experience and expectations. Additionally, Vantage offers its colleagues performance-based bonus potential, strong health & welfare benefits, retirement plans with company match, competitive time off plans, a highly flexible work environment, and much more.

Requirements

8-10 years of software development experience as a hands-on experience as a full stack developer with a demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality software including front end development, backend/API development, data/database modeling and design, test driven development, automated testing.
Strong Javascript development experience with common frameworks like React and Node.
Strong Python development experience.
Experience using AI development techniques (Claude, Gemini, etc) with success to drive solutions quicker.
End-to-end AI feature architecture – designing the full stack from UI/UX (streaming responses, loading states, chat interfaces) through backend orchestration layers that manage prompts, tool calls, and multi-turn conversation state.
Advanced prompt & context engineering – not just writing prompts, but architecting reusable system prompts, dynamic context injection, and structured output formats (JSON/XML) that other engineers on the team can build on top of.
Tool use / function calling & agentic workflows – designing and wiring up tools (APIs, databases, internal services) that the model can call, including error handling, retries, and multi-step agent loops.
RAG pipeline ownership – building and maintaining the retrieval layer (embeddings, vector DB, chunking strategy) and tuning it for latency and relevance at production scale, not just prototype scale.
Production reliability & cost optimization – handling rate limiting, fallback logic, caching strategies, prompt/token cost tradeoffs, and monitoring/evals to catch quality regressions before they hit users.
Knowledge in building serverless application components in either Azure or AWS.
Demonstrated ability and desire to learn new programming languages and frameworks required.
Demonstrated knowledge of Insurance and/or the desire and ability to learn and understand new business processes.
Experience in multiple infrastructure and application domains – cloud, network, storage, servers, containers/Kubernetes, databases, middleware, DevOps.
Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods, and best practices.
Experience with DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) solutions and tools – GIT, Github Actions, Jenkins, code analysis, quality gates, etc.
Strong strategic decision making & long-term planning abilities to manage resources and develop efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
Strong understanding of Agile development methods and its application to company technology needs.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience required.
Ability to consult with business stakeholders and provide thoughtful, practical recommendations to meet their needs.
Ability to learn business processes and workflow to design business solutions tailored to their needs.
Ability to decompose excel workbooks comprising of actuarial and financial algorithms to design, develop and delivery cloud-based business applications.
Expert collaboration skills, both within and outside of the direct team.
Strong management and leadership skills.
Strong work ethic with an eye towards continuous improvement, innovation, and efficiency.
Demonstrated success in behaviors consistent with the Vantage values.
Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
Ability to process and adapt to change in a rapid growth company environment.

Nice To Haves

Vantage associates are expected to be curious, thrifty, and resourceful to manage through the unknowns of growing a specialty (re)insurance business from the ground up.

Responsibilities

Consults with enterprise architects and senior technology leadership to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with enterprise architecture principles and software development best practices.
Collaborates with testers and other developers to develop creative high-quality solutions.
Completes complex software development work involving creative application design, coding, and debugging methods and techniques.
Builds user-friendly and resilient applications and services with optimized user and developer experiences to accelerate the delivery of business solutions in a fast evolving and rapidly growing environment.
Delivers business-facing solutions in weeks rather than months working directly with the product managers, full stack developers, data scientist and business users.
Works with testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and participates in quality assurance testing as the IT workload requires.
Provides guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
Manages engineering risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues and devising methods to mitigate them.
Leads architecture and design discussions.
Interfaces with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
Provides input to the TDM and DPM in creation of the product roadmap with high level estimates.
Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and new software development best practices and trends.
Establishes and advocates engineering and software development culture, standards, and processes across the company, coaching and mentoring newer members.
Understands that responsibilities and accountabilities will morph and change as Vantage is a young company.