Senior Associate Software Engineer

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$87,800.00 - $144,800.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

InsuraMatch is an independent agency company, owned by Travelers Insurance, that uses an innovative online platform to help consumers compare offerings from more than 40 carriers across the United States. With a focus on personal insurance, InsuraMatch offers coverage for auto, home, boat, motorcycle, renters, umbrella, and flood, among others. InsuraMatch operates independently and manages all carrier partnerships. InsuraMatch is seeking a versatile Senior Associate Software Engineer to support a variety of applications, systems, and platforms that provide acquisition targeting, retention modeling projects, predictive analytics, call routing, data architecture, and in-depth data analyses. In this role, you will have a direct impact on the growth of this business and work closely with the team and leadership to drive profit and customer growth.

What Will You Do?

• Under general supervision, this role will actively participate as a member of the InsuraMatch team in collaborating, conceiving and developing scalable, performant, secure solutions.
• Perform basic analysis, development, testing, debugging, configuration, incident investigation, documentation, health monitoring/alerting, and implementing based on and related to user or system design specifications.
• Support and contribute to the improvement of the development process
• Provide tier one support for cloud and physical networks, servers, operating systems, and processes
• Worth within the guidelines set by the team to monitor, manage, and administer Serverless, Linux, and Window computer platforms
• Support critical aspects of our technology operations in areas including Production, deployment process automation, monitoring, and security
• Ensure alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and overall IT cloud strategy
• Create and maintain build scripts, templates and other artifacts for the Infrastructure stack
• Support the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assist in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Familiar with cloud computing services from companies such as Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP), and Microsoft (Azure).
• System administration experience in UNIX/Linux and Windows environments.
• Knowledge with MySQL relational databases.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Knowledge of information security best practices.
• Development skills in some of the following: React. Angular, Node.js., Typescript, etc.
• Knowledge of MySQL and SQL query and schema design.
• Knowledge of agile development working model - Jira, Confluence, Git.
• Knowledge of test-driven development and/or behavior-driven development.
• Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge with Chef, Puppet, and/or other automated deployment methodologies.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including security and systems design.
• Detail orientation - attention and desire to work on large data "crunching" projects.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and a proven ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Creative thinker with the ability to synthesize information from various sources and apply that information to concrete business problems.
• Understanding of implementing and operating IT infrastructure (e.g., servers, networks, storage). Experience with the public cloud is a major plus.
• Strong people skills - the ability to get along with people at all levels of an organization, and get things done through influence and persuasion.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work or military experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.