Principal Software Engineer; Frontend Focus - React​/Typescript

$135,000 - $165,000 / year + Bonus

The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.

Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale.

With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.

Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a strategic leadership role in the architecture and development of modern, high-impact web applications. You will work hands‑on with cutting‑edge front‑end technologies—especially React 19—while mentoring teams, defining technical direction, and driving engineering excellence across the organization.

You will lead the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high‑performance systems, shape our design system and component architecture, and evolve our platform capabilities to support a diverse ecosystem of applications. You will also champion innovation, strong engineering culture, and continuous learning.

If you thrive on solving complex UI engineering challenges, love React, and enjoy mentoring and influencing large‑scale technical direction, this role is for you.

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Design, develop, and maintain high‑performance React 19 applications using modern component patterns, concurrent features, and optimized rendering flows.
• Innovates and crafts clean code
• Helps lead and mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product
• Coordinates with Experience Design and software development teams across the department in designing and implementing pragmatic and best‑fit solutions
• Takes ownership of vision and development of technologies, infrastructure, and common components across our tech stack.
• Build and optimize rich UI experiences using:
  • React 19 concurrent features
  • Type Script
• Define and evolve design‑system‑driven component architecture
• Drive front‑end performance optimization, including React Compiler
• Mentors other developers and teams
• Fosters and develops a community of practice across the entire development organization
• Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies and processes ensuring highest quality product platform
• Provides support for existing products and developing new products
• Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development
• Troubleshoot code problems quickly and efficiently.
• Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally
• Lead, join in, and shepherd teams through implementation goals including fostering best practices in creation of code
• Other duties as assigned

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.