Sr. Software Engineer

On-site 4 days onsite in Woodbridge Township, NJ

Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application in the insurance domain. The role requires leadership, application ownership, and hands‑on development across middleware, web services, and SQL Server. The engineer will design, develop, test, and support solutions, drive architectural decisions, and handle operational data requests, including large-scale SQL updates. The position is on-site four days per week in New Jersey and will require on-site interviews.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $72.00 to $80.00/hr. w2

• Create and support business solutions by designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring, and documenting products and projects for the insurance business.
• Ensure requirement statements are complete, consistent, feasible, and unambiguous.
• Collaborate across teams including business analysts, project managers, QA, data providers, and software vendors.
• Communicate difficult or sensitive information to key stakeholders.
• Provide input to project plans, estimates, and schedules.
• Create and deliver organized presentations.
• Design systems using established design methodologies and best practices with a focus on maintainability.
• Analyze requirements and issues, recommend optimal solutions, and research and track problems to resolution.
• Proactively identify and resolve quality issues to minimize defects.
• Identify critical issues, suggest process improvements, and propose solutions.
• Take initiative to diagnose production performance issues and implement corrective solutions.

• A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Expert-level SQL Server skills, including complex queries, large-scale data updates, data analysis, data mining, and performance tuning. Experience with DB2 and MS SQL Server.
• Strong middleware and web services experience, including REST, SOAP, JMS, ESB (Mule), and service-layer architecture.
• Full-stack development background with Java/J2EE 8+, Spring MVC, Angular v11+, Type Script/JavaScript, CSS libraries such as Bootstrap and PrimeNG, JSON, MyBatis, XML, XSLT, Maven, JBOSS.
• Ability to develop solutions that improve performance and scalability.
• Nice to have: AWS experience such as Lambda, S3, and application development on AWS. Insurance industry experience and prior ownership of enterprise applications.