The Hartford is an insurance company focused on making a difference and is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the IT team supporting their Small Commercial business segment. The role involves designing and delivering code components, collaborating with developers, and mentoring junior team members while leveraging the latest web technologies and software engineering practices.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to monthly financial closes, quarterly and year end closes
- Design and delivery of code components and modules
- Collaborate with fellow developers to design, develop, implement and support complex business software solutions
- Assist the Agile Scrum/Flow master and lead our team supporting multiple .Net applications
- Estimate individual and group work effort for delivery of tasks
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, various stakeholders
- Design and develop solutions that are scalable, easily maintainable and easy to use
- Assist with estimating work requests
- Support resolution of defects during application testing phases
- Production support
- Mentor more junior team members
Requirements:
- Strong experience in enterprise financial integrations, reporting
- Strong experience in insurance industry financial systems including receivables, payables, general ledger, reinsurance, IBNR, actuarial, policy and claims systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related disciple with a minimum of 5+ years of work experience in IT
- Strong programming skills in Web Technologies, data analysis and manipulation
- The applicant must have 5+ years of hands-on experience and skills in C#, SQL server, JavaScript, .Net Core, Visual Studio, SSMS, SSIS, Github/TFS/VSO/Rally, HTML5, Web API, JSON, XML, REST, client-side frameworks or web components
- Experience with Java and .NET platform applications
- Experience working with agile development teams, methodologies and toolsets
- Self-motivation and the ability to work independently and with a team
- Strong verbal and written and communication skills
- Experience in leading teams and delivering projects
- Experience in developing unit test suites and test driven development
- Experience with DevSecOps and working with CI/CD pipelines and source control branching strategies
- Experience with application performance testing and tuning
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
- Cloud/AWS experience is a plus
- Angular experience is a plus
- Enterprise application experience is a plus
- Agile certification is a plus
- Generative AI experience is a plus