Senior Software Engineer Job New York New York USA,Software Development

Location: New York

About the Company

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.

About the Company

Vantage has approximately 365 colleagues in both the United States and Bermuda. We have offices in Chicago, IL, Norwalk, CT, West Hartford, CT, Washington, DC, 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 on the Reinsurance team to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications, translating them into high-quality systems solving real business problems within the organization. This position will report to the Senior Vice President, Software Engineering and will be responsible for a small team of developers.

The base salary expectation for this role is between $150,000 and $200,000. 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 and senior technology leadership 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.
Proven ability to deliver business facing solutions in weeks rather than months working directly with the product managers, full stack developers, data scientist and business users.
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…