14 Vertafore Jobs Hiring in Michigan

$80,000 - $100,000 / 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 Sr. Software Engineer, you will shape and improve the experience of key Vertafore customers. You will work cross-functionally across Vertafore, including Customer Support, Account Management, Product Management and Product Development to help guide customers and also contribute to the future growth of your team.
You will work with a fast-paced, skilled team of business analysts, conversion engineers, developers and quality assurance engineers across multiple high-profile projects with development responsibility of assigned projects. Much of your success in this role will be dependent upon timely, clear, concise and effective verbal and written communication along with development of solutions that fully meet customer expectations with no/minimal defects or rework.
Although not a primary duty compared to developing and supporting code, a software engineer at Vertafore also works directly with customers as part of a cross-functional team, which means you need to be a proactive self-starter, able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be service-focused to help nurture the customer experience. Additionally, you're a mentor and consultant, as well as a customer champion within Vertafore.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Innovates and crafts clean code

• Confidently work with customers to describe technical concepts and recommend appropriate solutions whether pure custom or a mix of custom and core Vertafore products

• Assist business analysts as needed with reviewing request information and documenting solution designs that align with customer expectations and business objectives/requirements

• Document, architect and develop forward thinking technical specifications and solutions based on provided business requirements and/or specifications

• Create advanced tables, views, stored procedures, indexes, constraints, cursors, user defined functions and triggers using T-SQL and SSMS

• Optimize query performance and tuning indexes using Query Analyzer and other tools

• Extract, transform and load (ETL) data

• Responsible for interface design, documentation and unit testing

• Develop automated solution deployments as appropriate

• Deploy developed solutions within non-production environments and assist with Vertafore production release deployments

• Working on/with small teams and completing tasks quickly with minimal supervision

• Leading junior developers and providing proactive feedback to senior leadership

• Mitigates the impact of technical decisions across the entire product

• Drives and manages design conversations for features considering business need

• Defines and creates artifacts/documents that are valuable to the team and external stakeholders

• Incorporate new approaches, languages, and technologies into the team

• Develops new features and supporting/bug fixing existing features

• Diagnosis and troubleshoots issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network; Provides solutions for complex, ambiguous problems through multiple stacks and products

• Ensures quality of code within the team written or reviewed

• Contributes to defining and enforcing procedures, standards, and methodologies related to software development

• Is as a role model and mentors other team members technically and culturally

• Follows industry trends and the open-source community

• Interacts with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts

• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced troubleshooting experience and resolving production issues

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (internal and external customers/partners)

• Ability to work within a team in a collaborative manner

• Willingness to learn new technologies and experiment with innovation

• Self-starter who is detail-oriented, quick-learner and deadline-driven

• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills, able to diffuse tension and drive productive conversations, internally and externally.

• Strategic problem solver with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills

• An innate curiosity about how things work; Proactively acquires new skills and learns new tools and technologies to troubleshoot complex issues.

• Comfortable and effective at making decisions across the product that help long-term maintainability, reuse, security. and performance

• Applies knowledge gained and is effective at knowledge-sharing and assisting other team members.

• Able to work with global, distributed teams

• In-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming

• Highly proficient with multiple database technologies

• Strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level

• Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions

• Desire to collaborate with the business, designing pragmatic solutions

Skills & Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer related field

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience with Java/.NET and common frameworks.

• Experience working in an Agile environment required

• 3+ years of experience in security best practices for software and data platforms required

• 3+ years of experience with Restful APIs required

• 3+ years of experience with design, architecture, and implementation at an enterprise level required

• Experience with Angular or similar technology preferred3+ years of experience with database technologies (e.g., Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Cassandra, etc.)

• Experience with Identity and Access Management preferred

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 10% of the time.

• WFH Flexible

• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

• #LI-Hybrid

THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why, at Vertafore, it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Qualifications
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• Medical, vision & dental plans
• Life, AD&D
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan & Employer Match
• Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Education Assistance
• Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition

Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
• Medical, vision & dental plans
  • PPO & high-deductible options
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
  • Health Care FSA
  • Dental & Vision FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Commuter FSA
• Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
• Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
• Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Education & Legal Assistance
• Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Commuter Benefits (Denver)

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligi