Senior Software Programmer - Commercial Customer Experience
- Employer
- Travelers Insurance
- Location
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Sep 29, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Solid reputation, passionate people and endless opportunities. That's Travelers. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers - and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.
Job Summary
Travelers Commercial Customer Journey Experience Team has an exceptional development opportunity to help transform the experiences of our customers, agents, and employees to ensure our customers are delighted with their relationship with Travelers.
This Sr. Software Programmer will be a valued contributor in an agile team designing, developing, and releasing new and innovative digital capabilities. This person will perform full-stack development activities within a microservices architecture to satisfy the needs of our Digital Insured today and tomorrow. In collaboration with our enterprise technology organizations, our customer initiatives will employ advanced technologies and methodologies to deliver critical business functionality incrementally, while adhering to Travelers architectural principles. Proof of concept and innovation sprints leveraging disruptive technologies like cognitive and IoT are also part of this role.
Please contact us if you:
- Enjoy solving problems and finding innovative ways to deliver business value with technology
- Want to work in a diverse and talented agile team
- Have experience creating value in technologies like the following:
- Java, Spring Core / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud or transferrable skills from similar technologies such as .NET
- JavaScript, Node.js or transferrable skills from similar technologies
- React, Angular or another Front-end framework
Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Work closely with UX designers, business partners, business analysts and software architects to deliver highly usable software that satisfies business needs
- Solve business problems with sustainable, full-stack, web-based solutions
- Learn and leverage disruptive technologies like cognitive AI/machine learning and IoT during innovation sprints to solve business problems
- Practice test driven development, refactoring, and continuous integration as a part of an agile development team
- Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques and best practices
- Work closely with development team and architects to suggest, plan and implement the best solution with the user experience in mind
- Convert wireframes into workable prototypes for business review, design validation and usability testing
- Develop reusable artifacts that may include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React and/or other technologies
- Participate in all Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, release planning, retrospectives, and customer demos
- Build, maintain, and utilize partnerships
Minimum Qualifications
High School diploma or equivalent required. 1 year of programming/development experience required.
Education, Work Experience & Knowledge
- 2+ years development experience in one of the following:
- Java, Spring Core / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud or transferrable skills from similar technologies such as .NET
- JavaScript, Node.js or transferrable skills from similar technologies
- Front-end UI framework React, Angular, or transferrable skills from similar technologies
- Strong technical design and programming skills
- Cloud application development experience a plus
- Microservice development experience, building RESTful APIs is a plus
- Solid understanding of UI front-end development including HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- NoSQL development experience such as MongoDB
- Elastic search engine such as SOLR is a nice to have
- Prior experience with iterative development and agile practices is a plus
Job Specific & Technical Skills & Competencies
- Ability to adopt new concepts, ideas, techniques and best practices
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, partners and customers
- Ability to develop and present technical concepts to a business audience
- Aptitude and desire to rapidly learn technical and business concepts and disciplines
- Strong commitment to high quality work and timely deliverables
- Inclusive team-oriented approach. Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views. Gives and receives candid feedback with empathy. Puts success of the team above own interests
Environmental/Work Schedules/Other
- Hartford, CT or Saint Paul, MN
- Infrequent weekend work hours.
- Infrequent overnight work hours.
- Infrequent holiday work hours (Federal and religious).
- May require travel.
Physical Requirements
Operates standard office equipment. Requires extended periods of computer use. Requires extended periods of sitting.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer.
Company
WHO WE ARE
Imagine a Career With Purpose.
For more than 160 years Travelers has earned a reputation as a leader in personal, business and specialty insurance because we take care of our customers. When you work at Travelers, life’s most important moments become your life’s work. That means helping families feel secure, businesses to prosper, knowing that you’ve made a difference, and feeling like you belong to something bigger.
LIFE AT TRAVELERS
Imagine Playing a Role in Something Bigger.
A career at Travelers means being part of a team comprised of 30,000 + talented and passionate people that’s evolving to meet changing needs – from customer service to data science and beyond. If that’s more than you imagined in an insurance career, it’s time to join us at Travelers.
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