Sr. Technical Lead, Software Engineer (Java, React, Oracle, AI skills)

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 thats 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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We seek a highly skilled Sr. Tech Lead Software Engineering to join our product development project team. As a Sr. Tech Lead you will lead the design development and deployment of complex web applications using React focusing on front-end architecture and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will also guide the team on best practices scalability and performance optimization to deliver high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

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

Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full stack development efforts using latest React version JAVA Oracle and related tools focusing on building scalable and efficient web applications.

Project Ownership: Take ownership of the full development lifecycle from design and development to deployment ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.

Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams including UX/UI designers QA engineers and product owners to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end services.

Requirement Gathering: Engage with product team to understand business requirements processes and pain points.

Translation to Technical Solutions: Convert business requirements into technical implementation.

AI-Augmented Engineering: Drives team governance and AI-native standards designs high-context specifications evaluates new AI capabilities and mentors the team on advanced engineering workflows.

Code Reviews: Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and optimize performance scalability and security.

Mentorship: Guide junior developers on best practices and technologies.

Performance Optimization: Ensure applications performance scalability and security by implementing industry-leading practices and tools.

Documentation: Maintain clear technical documentation for the solutions built to ensure ease of knowledge transfer and maintenance.

Required Technical Skills:

Must Have Skills:

Front-End Development:

React:

• Strong knowledge of React (version 18) including new features like Concurrent Rendering and Automatic Batching.
• Expertise in building and optimizing applications with React functional components and leveraging React Hooks for state and side effects management (e.g. useState useEffect useCallback useMemo).
• Experience designing responsive cross-browser compatible UIs using Flexbox media queries etc
• Ability to abstract logic using reusable custom hooks for cleaner and maintainable components.

Provider in React & Context API:

• Experience with setting up Context Providers and effectively using React Context API for managing and passing data across component trees without prop drilling.
• Experience using Redux Toolkit for global state management in complex applications.

Form Management:

• Strong experience in building and managing forms in React using Formik including handling complex form states and validations.
• Expertise in using Yup library for schema-based validation of forms ensuring comprehensive client-side form validation.

TypeScript:

Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript for building type-safe React applications.

Deep understanding of TypeScript features like interfaces generics type inference and modules for ensuring code reliability and scalability.

Build Tools & Bundling Strategies

• Proficient with modern JavaScript build tools such as Webpack Vite and Parcel for efficient module bundling asset optimization and development workflows.
• Experience configuring custom build pipelines including setting up loaders plugins environment variables and code splitting strategies to optimize performance and build size.

HTML/CSS & UI Frameworks:

HTML/CSS:

• Strong understanding of semantic HTML and modern CSS for responsive web design.

API & Backend Integration:

REST API Knowledge:

• Experience consuming and integrating RESTful APIs into React applications including error handling request optimization and managing API responses using tools like Axios or Fetch API.

AI Augmentation:

• Drive the end-to-end software development by actively utilizing modern AI-assisted development toolkits (e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude Code etc.) to optimize daily coding velocity and documentation.
• Utilize AI diagnostics to accelerate root-cause analysis and triage bugs across the entire application stack.
• Demonstrate strong prompt-engineering habits.
• Demonstrate curiosity and willingness to learn modern AI-native engineering practices and emerging AI development tools.
• Critically review audit and benchmark AI-assisted code contributions against rigorous enterprise performance data privacy and security standards before production rollout.
• Champion the adoption of modern AI-native engineering practices across the team elevating overall engineering velocity while maintaining flawless software quality.

Testing and Quality Assurance:

• Experience in writing and executing Playwright/Jest/RTL test cases to ensure the quality and performance of end-to-end user flows.

Performance Optimization

• Proven ability to optimize React applications using lazy loading code splitting and efficient state management techniques to improve application performance.

Build Tools:

• Hands-on experience with build tools like Webpack Vite or Parcel to optimize development workflows and manage modern JavaScript applications efficiently.

Backend Development

• Design develop and maintain enterprise applications using Java Struts Spring Boot Hibernate JSP and Servlets.
• Implement business logic and database interactions with Oracle 19c.
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices for distributed systems.

Database Management

• Write efficient SQL queries stored procedures and triggers in Oracle 19c.
• Perform database tuning performance optimization.

Messaging & Integration

• Implement asynchronous communication and message-driven architectures using RabbitMQ.
• Integrate distributed systems and ensure reliable message delivery.

System Architecture & Design

• Architect and design scalable secure and maintainable solutions.
• Apply design patterns and best practices in enterprise application development.

Nice to have skills:

Version Control & CI/CD:

• Proficiency with Git and experience in managing feature branches and release cycles using GitLab.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing building and deploying React applications using tools like GitLab.

Collaboration:

Collaboration Tools:

• Proficiency in using tools like Rally and Teams to manage Agile workflows and communicate effectively across global teams.

• Agile Methodologies:
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments actively participating in sprint planning retrospectives and iterative development cycles.

Platform/Tools:

• Experience with AWS cloud platforms (EC2 S3 etc) Terraform.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or a related field.
• Have an intense passion for building software and mentoring their teams
• Are very strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level.
• 8 years of professional experience with the above-mentioned skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring teams.
• Proven experience in requirement analysis and documentation.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into technical implementations.
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Are in-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming
• Have experience in security best practices for software and data platforms
• Design perfect-fit solutions with engineering teams and business units to drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
• Are interested and capable of learning other programming languages as needed.