Sr. Software Engineer

$95,000 - $135,000 / year

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 that’s 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. 

As a Senior Software Engineer embedded in an energetic agile team of Software and QA Engineers, you will lead the team in creating software products utilizing state of the art technologies. You will be hands on, involved in designing applications and flexible services that expose core capabilities to different applications and user bases, and leading teams to achieve the vision through active mentoring, technical decision-making, and facilitating company-wide collaboration. All of this will be accomplished with cutting edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and fun. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

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

·        Responsible for developing new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features

·        Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, applications, C# (ASP.net), and network

·        Share what they know by mentoring other team members

·        Closely follow industry trends and the open source community

·        Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, code review, and documentation workflows

·        Design and implement automated test suites (unit, integration, and end-to-end) using frameworks such as xUnit, NUnit, Selenium, or Playwright

·        Champion test-driven development (TDD) and CI/CD pipeline integration to ensure code quality and reduce regression risk

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·        Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code

·        Curious and avid learners

·        Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

·        Self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers

·        Driven to improve, personally and professionally

·        Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them

·        Collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions

·        Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment

·        Prepare technical training and information sessions for other staff

·        Proficient with AI-assisted development tools and able to evaluate, adopt, and guide team members on emerging AI coding assistants

·        Strong grasp of automated testing methodologies and quality engineering, including TDD, BDD, and test pyramid principles

·        Ability to critically assess AI-generated code for correctness, security, and performance before integration

Salary : $95,000 - $135,000