Code Reviews, Communication Skills, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Support/Service, Documentation, High Availability, Insurance Underwriting, Integration Testing, Leadership, Life Insurance, Mentoring, Onboarding, People Management, Product Demonstration, Production Support, Quality Assurance, Regression Testing, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Software Engineering, Sprint Planning, Stewardship, System Test, Systems Maintenance, Technical Delivery, Test Automation, Unit Test
Charlotte, North Carolina
Job Summary
This role partners with Product Owners, UW/Config, QA, and Implementation teams to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities for a high-availability, high-volume automated life insurance underwriting platform.
This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal people management responsibility; leadership is exercised through technical influence, architecture and design stewardship, high-quality implementation, and mentoring of engineers while maintaining hands-on delivery ownership.
Key duties and responsibilities
- Own technical delivery for medium-to-large initiatives across multiple components/services.
- Lead architecture and design decisions for backend/service-oriented solutions, including performance, maintainability, security, and operability trade-offs.
- Influence technical direction and engineering practices across teams without formal authority using clear design artifacts, code reviews, and evidence-based recommendations.
- Contribute meaningfully to implementation and test automation efforts, including unit, integration, and regression coverage.
- Use CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates including peer review, linting/static checks, security checks, and automated tests before release.
- Produce and maintain project, system, and testing documentation, including runbooks and known-issue notes.
- Participate in sprint planning, refinement, demos, and daily scrum to communicate progress and unblock impediments.
- Partner with implementation and business teams to support client onboarding and integration activities.
- Participate in rotating production support and