Sr. Software Engineer (Java, React, Oracle, AI skills)

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Software Engineer embedded in an energetic agile team of Software and QA Engineers, you will be part of the team in creating software products utilizing React and Java technologies. You will be hands on, involved in designing applications and flexible services that expose core capabilities to different applications and user bases, to achieve the vision through technical decision-making, and facilitating company-wide collaboration. All of this will be accomplished with cutting edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and fun. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

· Responsible for developing new features, enhancing existing features. Responsible for production.

· Engage with product team to understand business requirements, processes, and pain points.

· Convert business requirements into technical implementation.

· Take ownership of the full development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.

· Actively leverages AI-assisted development tools and multi-agent workflows throughout the SDLC to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and reduce cycle time — while applying rigorous prompt engineering, spec-driven design, and enterprise-grade governance to ensure all AI-generated contributions meet security, privacy, and performance standards.

· Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and optimize performance, scalability, and security.

· Work with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, QA engineers, and product owners, to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end services.

· Maintain clear technical documentation for the solutions built to ensure ease of knowledge transfer and maintenance.

· Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network.

· Guide junior developers on React and JAVA best practices. Share what they know by mentoring other team members.

Required Technical Skills:

· Frontend Development

o Build dynamic, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces using React.

o Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate wireframes into functional applications.

o Optimize front-end performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

· Backend Development

o Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Struts, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JSP, and Servlets.

o Implement business logic and database interactions with Oracle 19c.

o Develop RESTful APIs and microservices for distributed systems.

· AI Augmentation:

o Drive the end-to-end software development by actively utilizing modern AI-assisted development toolkits (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code etc.) to optimize daily coding velocity and documentation.

o Utilize AI diagnostics to accelerate root-cause analysis and triage bugs across the entire application stack.

o Demonstrate strong prompt-engineering habits.

o Demonstrate curiosity and willingness to learn modern AI-native engineering practices and emerging AI development tools.

o Critically review, audit, and benchmark AI-assisted code contributions against rigorous enterprise performance, data privacy, and security standards before production rollout.

· Database Management

o Write efficient SQL queries, stored procedures, and triggers in Oracle 19c.

o Perform database tuning

· Messaging & Integration

o Implement asynchronous communication and message-driven architectures using RabbitMQ.

o Integrate distributed systems and ensure reliable message delivery.

· System Architecture & Design

o Collaborate with architects to design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

o Apply design patterns and best practices in enterprise application development.

· Collaboration

o Work closely with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Product Owners.

o Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers.

· Testing & Deployment

o Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.

o Participate in CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.

Nice to have skills:

· Performance Optimization

o Proven ability to optimize React applications using lazy loading, code splitting, and efficient state management techniques to improve application performance.

· Version Control & CI/CD:

o Proficiency with Git and experience in managing feature branches and release cycles using GitLab.

o Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deploying React applications using tools like GitLab.

· Collaboration:

o Collaboration Tools:

§ Proficiency in using tools like Rally and Teams to manage Agile workflows and communicate effectively across global teams.

o Agile Methodologies:

§ Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative development cycles.

· Platform/Tools:

o Experience with AWS cloud platforms (EC2, S3 etc), Terraform.