Frontend Architect

$150000 - $190000 / year

Application Deadline: 5/31/2024

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

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.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Vertafore is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us grow our platform. In this role, you’ll be constantly improving our platform handling millions of insurance policies and providing valuable analytics to the insurance industry.

This is a unique opportunity to play a critical role in a changing and very complex industry. Join us and discover a dynamic work environment built around a commitment to continuous innovation and the drive to exceed demanding expectations every day.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

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

· Defining technical architecture for major parts of the frontend stack at Vertafore.

· Implementing significant portions of the frontend component architecture and help others with implementation.

· Collaborating with other development teams on frontend application design.

· Collaborating with design teams on new components and layouts.

· Understanding how technical decisions drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high quality to those outcomes.

· Performing design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers at Vertafore.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

· Strong technical skills with JavaScript, React or a similar frontend component-based architecture. The Vertafore platform is built on React but we have various applications using other frontend frameworks.

· Experience with frontend testing. The Vertafore platform leverages Cypress and React Testing Library.

· Experience designing components with CSS-in-JS frameworks.

· Experience integrating front end components with web services based on REST and JSON.

· Familiarity with Application UX design.

Qualifications:

· 7-10+ years relevant frontend experience in a tech environment.

· Experience building frontend frameworks that improve developer velocity and quality.

· Technical Leadership: hands on experience setting technical direction and strategy.

· Strong communication skills and collaboration skills. With the ability to lead high level discussions on technology strategy and approach.

· Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross functional products.

· Full stack development experience

Additional Requirements and Details:

· Travel required up to 10% of the time.

· 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.

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.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

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.