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

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India.

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Software Engineer embedded in an energetic agile team of Software and QA Engineers, you will be part of the team in creating software products utilizing React and Java technologies. You will be hands on, involved in designing applications and flexible services that expose core capabilities to different applications and user bases, to achieve the vision through 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.

Key Responsibilities:

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

• Responsible for developing new features, enhancing existing features. Responsible for production.

• Engage with product team to understand business requirements, processes, and pain points.

• Convert business requirements into technical implementation.

• Take ownership of the full development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.

• Actively leverages AI-assisted development tools and multi-agent workflows throughout the SDLC to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and reduce cycle time — while applying rigorous prompt engineering, spec-driven design, and enterprise-grade governance to ensure all AI-generated contributions meet security, privacy, and performance standards.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and optimize performance, scalability, and security.

• 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.

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

• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network.

• Guide junior developers on React and JAVA best practices. Share what they know by mentoring other team members.

Required Technical Skills:

• Frontend Development

o Build dynamic, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces using React.

o Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate wireframes into functional applications.

o Optimize front-end performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

• Backend Development

o Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Struts, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JSP, and Servlets.

o Implement business logic and database interactions with Oracle 19c.

o Develop RESTful APIs and microservices for distributed systems.

• AI Augmentation:

o 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.

o Utilize AI diagnostics to accelerate root-cause analysis and triage bugs across the entire application stack.

o Demonstrate strong prompt-engineering habits.

o Demonstrate curiosit…