Full Stack Software Engineer

About the Company

Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. (Vantage) was established in late 2020 as a re/insurance partner designed for the future. Driven by relentless curiosity, our team of trusted experts provides a fresh perspective on our clients’ risks. We add creativity to tech-enabled efficiency and robust analytics to address risks others avoid. Vantage provides specialty re/insurance through its operating subsidiaries in Bermuda and the U.S.

Vantage has approximately 365 colleagues in both the United States and Bermuda. We have offices in Chicago, IL, Norwalk, CT, Arlington, VA, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA and Hamilton, Bermuda. Additionally, we are a highly geographically diverse workforce with colleagues based in 35 states and counting. We fully support work flexibility including remote and hybrid work arrangements.

About the role:

The Vantage Full Stack Software Engineer will be a part of an agile product team collaborating with the Technology Delivery Manager (TDM), Digital Product Managers (DPM), and other product team members to accurately capture stakeholder requests and system specifications, translating them into high quality systems solving real business problems within the organization.

The base salary expectation for this role is between $120,000 and $155,000. Actual base salary for the selected candidate may be higher commensurate with candidate experience and expectations. Additionally, Vantage offers its colleagues performance-based bonus potential, strong health & welfare benefits, retirement plans with company match, competitive time off plans, a highly flexible work environment, and much more.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

The candidate will consult with enterprise architects to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with enterprise architecture principles and software development best practices. As part of an agile team, the candidate will collaborate with testers and other developers to develop creative high-quality solutions. Specific responsibilities include:

• Completing complex software development work involving creative application design, coding, and debugging methods and techniques.
• Building user friendly and resilient applications and services with optimized user and developer experiences to accelerate the delivery of business solutions in a fast evolving and rapidly growing environment.
• Working with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and participate in quality assurance testing as the IT workload requires.
• Providing guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
• Managing engineering risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues and devising methods to mitigate them.
• Providing input to the TDM and DPM in creation of the product roadmap with high level estimates.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of new technology and new software development best practices and trends.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 3-5 years of software development, hands-on experience as a full stack developer with a demonstrated ability to deliver high quality software including front end development, backend/API development, and some experience with data/database modeling and design.
• Exposure to test driven development and automated testing is a plus.
• JavaScript development experience with common frameworks like React and Node.
• Demonstrated ability, desire and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages and frameworks required.
• Some experience with building applications and/or application components in cloud infrastructure.
• Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods, and best practices.
• Experience with DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) solutions and tools – GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory/Nexus, code analysis tools like SonarQube, quality gates, etc.
• Understanding of Agile development methods and its application to company technology needs.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to process and adapt to change in a rapid growth new-company environment. Vantage associates are expected to be curious, thrifty, and resourceful to manage through the unknowns of a growing specialty (re)insurance business from the ground up.

Our Vantage Values

Do What’s Right – be a force for good, for our customers, shareholders, colleagues, industry and communities.

Be Relentlessly Curious – ask questions, listen to understand, challenge the status quo, look for ways to say YES, drive innovation, be opportunistic and disciplined.

We’re Better Together – collaborate, be inclusive, supportive, respectful and humble, be a trusted partner internally and externally.

Be Transparent – in who you are, what you think, and how you work, seek and provide alternative points of view, be true to yourself.

Make A Difference – focus on impact, embrace technology, leverage data and analytics as critical assets, act intentionally to deliver on our mission.