Senior Software Engineer - Reinsurance

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Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. (Vantage) was established in late 2020 as a re/insurance partner designed for the future. Driven by relentless curiosity, our team of trusted experts provides a fresh perspective on our clients’ risks. We add creativity to tech‑enabled efficiency and robust analytics to address risks others avoid. Vantage provides specialty re/insurance through its operating subsidiaries in Bermuda and the U.S.

Vantage has approximately 365 colleagues in both the United States and Bermuda. We have offices in Chicago, IL, Norwalk, CT, Arlington, VA, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA and Hamilton, Bermuda. Additionally, we are a highly geographically diverse workforce with colleagues based in 35 states and counting. We fully support work flexibility including remote and hybrid work arrangements.

About the role:

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 to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications, translating them into high quality systems solving real business problems within the organization.

The base salary expectation for this role is between $150,000 and $180,000. 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.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

The incumbent consults with enterprise architects to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with enterprise architecture principles and software development best practices. As part of an agile team, the incumbent will collaborate 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.

• Build 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.

• Works with the 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.

• Establish and advocate engineering and software development culture, standards, and processes across the company, coaching and mentoring newer members.

• As a young company we fully acknowledge the scope of each colleague’s job will change over time. Vantage expects all colleagues to be flexible and understand that responsibilities and accountabilities will morph and change.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent professional experience.

• 7+ years of software development 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.

• Knowledge in building serverless application components in either Azure or AWS.

• Demonstrated ability and desire to learn new programming languages and frameworks required.

• Experience in multiple infrastructure and application…