Senior Software Engineer

Location & Work Model
Van Wert, OH;
Dublin, OH
Hybrid
Full time - salary

Role Overview
Senior Software Engineer in the Personal Lines Policy Ops team, shaping modern solutions for Policy Administration technology stack at Central Insurance.

• Write code, provide architectural design and document contributions to software development efforts.
• Apply appropriate design patterns and techniques to produce readable, testable, and maintainable code.
• Adopt testing practices and use quality metrics to identify gaps and recommend improvements.
• Use systematic debugging to diagnose issues within the domain scope.
• Drive monitoring initiatives based on the organization’s monitoring philosophy, leveraging operational data for stability and performance improvements.
• Own domain expertise, including service breadth, interactions, and data flows; understand adjacent domain needs.
• Participate in inter‑team workflow design conversations, articulating needs for APIs and data flows.
• Design services and systems as an architect, balancing future scalability with current delivery speed.
• Collaborate with the security team to refine and enforce security practices aligned with organizational strategy.
• Critically review epics and projects, ensuring proper breakdown, prioritization, and clear understanding by the team.
• Establish dependency awareness and foster a culture of priority setting and urgency.
• Handle risk, change, and uncertainty responsibly in routine and high‑pressure scenarios.
• Communicate blockers, delays, and cost impacts proactively to minimize escalation.
• Apply economic thinking to weigh cost and value when making decisions.
• Mentor teammates, fostering documentation, knowledge sharing, and a culture of constructive feedback.
• Encourage respectful discussion, open to changing perspectives based on feedback.
• Align team practices and processes with organizational strategy.
• Represent the team in design and debugging discussions with other teams.
• Coordinate design and implementation conversations across teams.
• Propose architectural decisions via RFCs and document designs with diagrams.
• Provide feedback to Engineering Managers on delivery process performance.
• Enforce standards and agreed behaviors through code reviews.
• Write unit, integration, and schema verification tests; coach juniors on testability.
• Communicate trade‑offs between design choices.
• Engage daily with engineers, keep progress visible, and pair‑program as needed.
• Help onboard new engineers and disseminate team tools and processes.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science and 2 years of related experience.
• Or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 4 years of related experience.
• Or 6 years of related experience.

• Front‑end specialist or solid experience with service‑oriented architecture patterns.
• Ability to balance speed of change and future flexibility in design choices.
• Commitment to coaching and treating engineering as a craft.

• Advanced knowledge of complex software systems, including enterprise, middleware, and messaging.
• Strong experience in software development and systems engineering.
• Business acumen and root‑cause analysis expertise.
• Extensive experience with software application design tools and languages.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience writing and executing test plans, debugging, and testing scripts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Central establishes base pay based on labor market data and candidate qualifications. The total rewards package includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, supporting financial, health, career, and retirement objectives. For more information, see Central Insurance Benefits.

Central only employs individuals legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship will not be provided. Applicants with temporary visas (E, F‑1, H‑1, H‑2, L‑1, B, J, or TN) or who require future sponsorship are not eligible.

Central is an equal opportunity employer. All recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, and other employment practices are conducted without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, military status, disability, or any other protected characteristic.