Who We Are

We’re NFP, a five-time Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. We are also recognized as an Elite 2018 Agency award winner named as a Top Employee Benefits Firm. We are a leading Insurance Broker and Consultant that provides Employee Benefits, Property & Casualty, and Retirement and Individual Private Client solutions to help our clients reach and realize their goals because we believe business is personal. Our personal commitment to our team and our clients have created long-lasting and successful relationships across our growing 300 nationwide offices and 17 international locations. To learn more, please visit: https://www.nfp.com/

The Role at NFP

Job Description

Work closely with our lead developer and our users to plan, design, develop, test, deploy, and support improvements to our internal software system, used all day every day by almost everyone in the company. Craft high-quality Java and SQL code in a calm, Agile-influenced, “functional-flavored” environment that’s already seen 7 years of care and investment.

Skills & Requirements

Our primary system is a Java-based Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) client, deployed to Windows workstations, that talks to our Microsoft SQL Server database. We use Git, JUnit, and other tools to keep the overall effort under control.

Java. We expect you to be very comfortable in single-threaded Java, including generics and inner classes, and to be comfortable getting around in an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA. We don’t expect you to know Eclipse RCP yet.

SQL. You should also know enough SQL to write basic queries, including inner and outer joins, without making rookie mistakes.

Agile methods. We’re going to be pairing, refactoring, and doing test-driven development (TDD). We’re going to be working closely with users, planning every week, and deploying as often as we reasonably can (currently, twice a month-ish). You want to work this way, and ideally already have been for a while.

B.S. or M.S. in computing. We expect you to have at least an abstract understanding of the fundamentals of operating systems, file systems, networks, and basic data structures, and to have some exposure to languages that approach programming in different ways – the kinds of things that are typically taught in school.

User empathy. You should be comfortable talking with users, helping them figure out what they need, and designing solutions that fit their world – including clean UI.

Nitpicker. You do thorough work to an ever-higher standard and are proud of it!

About XS/Re

We’re a managing general underwriter of medical stop-loss insurance. All that really means is that folks with big piles of money trust us to take risks with their money, execute, and produce returns. If we do well, we keep some of the money. If we do poorly, we don’t get to play anymore, and we’re out of business. We’ve been doing well for 25 years now. We think that’s because of our independent thinking, fastidious attention to detail, and long-term outlook that demands fair dealing.

We work sane, predictable hours in a beautiful office full of courteous grown-ups in Woodbury, NJ, just a few miles south of Philadelphia.