Sr Software Engineer

Travelers is a leading property casualty insurer with over 170 years of experience, committed to innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead advanced software engineering tasks, including design, development, and implementation, while providing technical leadership and mentoring to team members. Responsibilities: Perform complex analysis, advanced level design, configuration and develop functions for impactful and high-visibility tasks; Take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to moderately complex, loosely scoped problems that are aligned with team goals; Deliver efforts both independently and by leading other team members; Lead investigation and resolution efforts for critical, high impact problems, defects, and incidents; Act as a technology advocate, independently seeking opportunities where technology can be utilized to improve the business; Provide technical guidance and mentorship while fostering a team environment; Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts; Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities; Perform other duties as assigned Qualifications: Five years of programming/development experience; Proven experience in leading and managing software engineering teams, with a focus on fostering team collaboration, development, and achieving project goals; Demonstrated experience with cloud computing (e.g., AWS (Serverless/EKS) and/or Azure); Proficiency with API development (e.g., REST and/or GraphQL); Working knowledge of frameworks/libraries (e.g., React.js and/or Node.js.); Coding Assistant Usage (e.g., familiarity with Claude and GitHub Co-Pilot); Delivery - Advanced delivery skills including the ability to determine the software design strategy and methodology to be used for efforts, use automated tests, analysis, and informed feedback loops to ensure the quality and production readiness of work before release, monitor the health of work efforts and that of adjacent systems; Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to develop business partnerships and influence priorities by identifying solutions that are aligned with current business objective and closely follow industry trends relevant to domain, understanding how to apply them, and sharing knowledge with coworkers; Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find creative solutions to difficult problems, reflects on solutions, measuring their impact, and uses that information to ideate and optimize; Also adept at making decisions that involve a significant number of factors with broad implications; Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document initiatives in a concise and clear manner, collaborate effectively with teammates and others regardless of role, quickly extract core issues from discussions and meetings, give and receive constructive feedback, offer help when asked, and ensure everyone has a chance to share their thoughts and are heard; an attentive and empathetic listener; Leadership - Advanced leadership skills with the ability to take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members; Bachelor's degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience; 6 additional years of software engineering experience Required Skills: Cloud computing, API development, Software engineering leadership, React.js, Node.js