Sr. Software Engineer

Vertafore•Denver, CO

31d•$85,000 - $135,000

About The Position

The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations. Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale. With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era. Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

Requirements

Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner
Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation
Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven
Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations.
Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues.
Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance
Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members.
Able to work with global, distributed teams
In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level
Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions
Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions

Responsibilities

Comfortable working on full-stack web application, developing features spanning both frontend and backend
Innovates and crafts clean code
Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and/or specifications
Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing
Working on/with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision
Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership
Mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need
Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders
Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team
Design, build, test, and support AI-enabled product features using Python-based agent and orchestration frameworks.
Develops new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features
Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack
Ensures quality of code within the team written and assists in code reviews
Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
Follows industry trends and the open-source community
Helping our customer facing team with technical issues that our customers may be facing
Willing to learn the technical complexities that come with a highly regulated industry such as insurance
Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity while maintaining responsibility for code quality, security, and correctness.