Java Principal Engineer
It's the world’s largest database of property/casualty claims and a robust claims intelligence platform. Its claims-matching technology is an essential first step in fraud detection, and the results can help facilitate fast-tracking. The platform also provides seamless access to integrated claims fraud-detection and investigative analysis tools.
You will be responsible for leading teams to design and develop new components of the ClaimSearch product as well as enhancing existing features. You will develop for our fully cloud environment across very large data sets and gain experience on a diverse set of
• Design and build high performance, scalable and reliable component-based applications using latest technologies such as AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch etc.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate across teams for developing or enhancing product features
• Help define architecture & assist throughout refinement process
• Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Discuss the merits of various approaches with peers and junior engineers
• Develop new applications as well as enhance and support existing applications
• Provide guidance to resolve production problems in a timely manner by rapidly organizing and deploying the appropriate resources
• Continuously review problems to determine the root cause to prevent them in the future
• Ensure that secure coding practices are followed throughout the software life cycle
• Participate in planning meetings, retrospectives, daily stand ups, and other meetings as part of the software development process
• Provide guidance to team members to research and experiment with new tools and technologies, build working PoCs, conduct knowledge sharing sessions and provide recommendations for product improvement
• Champion own ideas as well as team's ideas
• Learn in area of leadership, management and agile
• Understand the view of all the scrum teams from an engineering and architectural perspective as well as the business objectives
• Help identify organizational impediments
• 8-12 years experience working in in Java, SQL, XML, JSON
• Experience with AWS or any cloud provider, Docker, Elasticsearch is a plus
• Experience leading small-medium sized technical teams
• Experience in creating and consuming RESTful services & APIs
• Experience working in Web Application Frameworks such as Angular or React
• Experience working with Spring and Message Queues
• Working knowledge of software development tools, testing methodologies, continuous integration and Agile processes
• Ability to easily express architectural ideas to engineers and non-technical members
• Ability to guide junior engineers to quickly debug problems based on experience and prior patterns
• Self manage time and tasks with little to no direction from others
• Identify subtle or well hidden technical debt, understand some of the organizational technical debt
• Strong teamwork and problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one as well as in large-group setups
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) from four-year college or university