Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

The Senior Software Engineer - App Dev (Velogica) is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting technical solutions across the Velogica platform.

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This role partners with Product Owners, UW/Config, QA, and Implementation teams to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities for a high-availability, high-volume automated life insurance underwriting platform.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal people management responsibility; leadership is exercised through technical influence, architecture and design stewardship, high-quality implementation, and mentoring of engineers while maintaining hands‑on delivery ownership.

• Own technical delivery for medium-to-large initiatives across multiple components/services.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for backend/service‑oriented solutions, including performance, maintainability, security, and operability trade‑offs.
• Influence technical direction and engineering practices across teams without formal authority using clear design artifacts, code reviews, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Contribute meaningfully to implementation and test automation efforts, including unit, integration, and regression coverage.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates including peer review, linting/static checks, security checks, and automated tests before release.
• Produce and maintain project, system, and testing documentation, including runbooks and known‑issue notes.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, demos, and daily scrum to communicate progress and unblock impediments.
• Partner with implementation and business teams to support client onboarding and integration activities.
• Participate in rotating production support and incident response, including leading diagnosis and coordination for complex incidents and driving corrective/preventive improvements.
• Implement and improve observability practices (structured logging, tracing, diagnostics, and actionable alerts).
• Participate in controls compliance and auditing activities and adhere to SCOR information security policies and best practices, including PII handling, secrets management, and required security training.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SDLC standards, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Model and encourage responsible AI‑assisted development practices for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Other duties as required for the position.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver reliable software in high‑availability, high‑volume service ecosystems.
• Strong expertise with Java and service‑oriented backend development, including REST APIs, data persistence, and SQL against complex data models.
• Demonstrated experience with modern engineering workflows and tooling, including source control, issue tracking, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical design and implementation for complex features spanning multiple services/components.
• Demonstrated ability to influence peers and partner teams through technical credibility, communication, and collaborative execution.
• Demonstrated mentoring/coaching of engineers through design and code feedback.
• Strong analytical problem‑solving, verbal/written communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy, proactively identify risks, propose mitigations, and drive work to completion.
• Cloud‑hosted systems and operational tooling (compute, storage, queues, metrics/logging).
• Observability tooling.
• Cross‑team technical lead experience.
• Insurance/re‑insurance domain knowledge.
• Scope:
  Owns technical delivery for large initiatives with cross‑service and cross‑team impact.
• Complexity:
  Solves ambiguous, multi‑system problems with clear trade‑off decisions across performance, maintainability, security, and delivery speed.
• Autonomy:
  Executes independently with minimal day‑to‑day direction while…