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Selective Insurance · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Short Hills, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$133K/yr - $184K/yr

Selective Insurance is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead and mentor a high-performing IT software engineering team, executing critical business projects that support the company's growth and customer experience goals.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

No H1B

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, implements, and troubleshoots complex, multi-tiered systems across multiple technical stacks in alignment with business and IT strategies and within committed schedules and funding

Acts as a technical leader, guiding and mentoring less experienced engineers

Demonstrates hands-on technical expertise in coding and debugging the technologies used to support business systems at all phases from design, development, testing, and deployment

Works to establish system non-functional requirements and drives work that meets needs, including performance, tuning, and quality enhancements

Debugs and troubleshoots complex system issues, performance issues, and infrastructure issues

Works in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as a servant leader, collaborates closely with solution and enterprise architects to contribute to the technical strategy, aligns the release train with the solution design, and defines necessary enablers on the architectural runway

Ensures software engineering best practices and standards are applied through frequent communications and code reviews, escalating deviations

Proactively identifies technical debt and works to modernize existing system technologies and processes

Continually looks for opportunities to advance DevOps and improve developer productivity and the overall change management process

Maintains alignment across teams and the ART through effective communications with architects, product management, quality assurance, and developers. Contributes to creation of estimates, implementation plans, research and design, and influences overall department goals

Qualification

C#.NetREST APIsDevOpsFull-stack developmentAgile methodologySAFeSQL ServerITILSite Reliability EngineeringP&C InsuranceAnalytical thinkingCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States

Requires excellent communication skills, analytical thinking, strong judgment and the ability to work directly with various stakeholders across IT and product teams

Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology, processes, business models and user behaviors

Experience acting as a technical leader and mentor to other software engineers or developers

College degree in a related field or work equivalent

Mastery in software engineering and supporting enterprise web applications and full-stack development

Deep understanding of C#, client-side frameworks, .Net, REST APIs, package management, DevOps, service integration, UML modeling, SQL Server and modern development patterns