Circle Lead Engineer (CLE) - Personal Insurance

Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

The annual base salary range for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad spectrum of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary will be determined by various factors, including scope, complexity, location, skills, education, training, credentials, experience, and other employment conditions. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance‑based cash incentive awards.

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Travelers is seeking a Circle Lead Engineer (CLE) to join our organization as we grow and transform our Personal Insurance Technology landscape. The individual will complete expert end‑to‑end engineering tasks, manage and lead the development and work products of software engineers, and plan and execute at a strategic level. The CLE will lead and influence resources and outcomes, design, develop and implement complex, unscoped problems that extend beyond the confines of a team, and establish software engineering best practices and standards.

• Accountable for the set of technical product solutions in the circle, ensuring they are well bounded and composable while growing and nurturing the circle’s engineering team’s skillsets.
• Technical Guidance:
  Provide technical guidance and leadership to Team Lead Engineers, helping them understand how their teams’ solutions fit together to accelerate the Circle’s mission.
• Solution Architecture and Design:
  Collaborate with Team Lead Engineers to define solution architectures and designs, ensuring boundaries are maintained and deferring to the architecture team for significant changes that span teams.
• Best Practices and Quality Assurance:
  Ensure teams produce systems that meet non‑functional requirements, are well bounded, composable, and adhere to software engineering best practices. Provide feedback to improve system‑building skills.
• Collaboration with Circle Leadership:
  Work closely with Circle leaders to ensure the Circle’s mission, vision, and objectives are satisfied by the systems built by the teams, providing oversight to ensure capabilities are properly bounded.
• Estimation and Planning:
  Participate in increment planning sessions to assist with and provide oversight of technical effort estimation for features, user stories, and tasks, helping teams break work into actionable components.
• Technical Integrations:
  Own technical interdependencies of systems within the Circle and ensure an adequate interaction model across teams to support these.
• Problem Solving:
  Help Team Lead Engineers overcome technical challenges and roadblocks by offering expertise, brainstorming solutions, and providing support as needed.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Circle, encouraging experimentation, learning, and adoption of new technologies and practices.
• Lead by Example, Mentor, and Coach:
  Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, and a commitment to quality. Mentor Team Lead Engineers and coach on soft skills, coding practices, design patterns, and system architecture.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

• 7+ years in programming and software development.
• Proven track record of empowering and guiding multiple teams simultaneously.
• Tech Stack:
  Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Type Script, and React.
• Cloud & Infrastructure:
  Expertise with AWS (specifically CDK), Terraform, and Jenkins.
• Modern Tools:
  Strong background in API development, Git Hub, and integrating AI/GenAI solutions.
• Delivery:
  Advanced delivery skills, including evaluating software design strategies, ensuring quality and production readiness, and developing technical metrics.
• Domain Expertise:
  Demonstrated…