Senior Associate Software Engineer
Who We Are
Send is part of Duck Creek Technologies, the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry.
Founded in 2017, Send was created with a clear ambition: to transform commercial insurance underwriting by combining deep industry expertise with modern technology. Today, Send’s award-winning underwriting workbench helps commercial insurers improve the way underwriting teams access information, make decisions, collaborate, and manage complex risks.
Following Send’s acquisition by Duck Creek Technologies, we are bringing together Send’s specialist commercial underwriting capabilities with Duck Creek’s scale, expertise, and modern SaaS platform. Together, we have an exciting opportunity to deliver even greater value to insurers and help shape the future of commercial insurance technology.
As part of Duck Creek Technologies, the Send team benefits from the scale, investment, expertise, and global reach of a market-leading insurance technology organization while continuing to build on the specialist underwriting expertise and entrepreneurial culture that have driven Send’s success.
About Vista
Duck Creek Technologies is a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, a global investment firm that partners with mission-critical enterprise software and technology-enabled businesses to drive growth and operational excellence. As part of a Vista portfolio company, you’ll work in an environment backed by deep expertise, long-term investment, and a strong commitment to building market-leading businesses and meaningful careers.
Why This Role Matters
As our Senior Software Engineer in our Delivery and Support team, you will keep Send’s underwriting platform running well for our customers. You’ll predominantly own application and production support for live customer environments, working closely with the customer implementation projects at the point of handoff. This role sits alongside our core product engineering team rather than within it. You’ll work closely with Delivery, Product, Engineering and customer stakeholders to resolve issues quickly, configure and extend the platform for each customer’s needs, and feed what you learn back into the product. It suits a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving real problems that directly affect customers.
What You’ll Do
- Provide application and production support for live customer environments. You’ll investigate, diagnose and resolve incidents, defects and performance issues across global our customer base.
- Own issues from first report to resolution, including root-cause analysis, fixes, clear communication with customers and internal stakeholders, and steps to stop them happening again.
- Sometimes get involved with the delivery of customer implementation projects by configuring, integrating and extending the platform to meet customer requirements.
- Work with Delivery, Product and core Engineering to turn customer requirements into maintainable solutions and pass recurring issues and product gaps back to the product team.
- Build quality into delivery through unit and integration testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and maintaining reliable and performant services.
- Improve our engineering and delivery capabilities through CI/CD and deployment automation, while contributing to architectural decisions that enhance the platform’s scalability and performance.
What You Bring
- At least 5 years of professional Java engineering experience, with strong experience developing backend web applications.
- Proficiency with Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA, and Hibernate, together with experience working with relational databases such as MySQL.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and software engineering best practices, including unit and integration testing and maintaining high code quality.
- A proactive, pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a distributed team.
- Experience with AWS, Apache Camel, Docker, Kubernetes, or other relevant cloud and DevOps technologies is beneficial.
- Experience in the insurance industry or working with insurance-related software is beneficial.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Join a specialist team solving some of the most important challenges in commercial insurance underwriting.
- Contribute to an award-winning underwriting technology platform while being part of Duck Creek Technologies, one of the leading technology providers in the global P&C insurance industry.
- Benefit from the scale, investment, expertise, and global reach of Duck Creek while continuing to work within the specialist and entrepreneurial environment that has driven Send’s success.
Additional Information
Location: Mumbai or Bengaluru, India - Hybrid
Work Authorization: This position does not sponsor employment-based visas.
Location & Ways Of Working
Send, a Duck Creek Company, operates within Duck Creek’s flexible-first working model, giving employees autonomy in how they manage their day-to-day work while creating intentional opportunities for meaningful in-person collaboration.
This role is aligned to Mumbai or Bengaluru, India, and you are expected to reside within reasonable proximity to one of those locations. You will partner with your leader to participate in in-person moments that support team connection, collaboration, customer engagement, and business priorities.
At the start of your employment, your work may be performed remotely, subject to business needs and company guidelines. As Duck Creek’s Flying Together approach continues to evolve, you may be expected to transition to a hybrid work arrangement, including working from a designated office location on a schedule determined by your leader and organizational needs.
The Company reserves the right to modify your work arrangement, including location expectations and in-person requirements, based on business needs, organizational policy, or regulatory considerations.
What We Stand For
Our global team values the unique perspectives each employee brings. Our success is driven by an inclusive culture where everyone can learn from one another, regardless of role or background. This collaborative approach helps us continuously improve our products, services, and systems.
Send, a Duck Creek Company, is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants, with decisions based on skills, experience, and achievements without regard to any protected status.
We strive to lead by example in inclusion, diversity, and equity, creating an environment where employees can be their authentic selves.
Our values guide us:
We Prioritize Respect. We Listen. We Care. We Add Value. We Lead.
Learn More
Duck Creek Technologies:
https://www.duckcreek.com/
Life at Duck Creek:
https://www.duckcreek.com/life-at-duck-creek/
Benefits & Rewards:
https://www.duckcreek.com/wellbeing-and-rewards/
AI Statement
To ensure an equitable and consistent process, candidates are expected to complete all interviews based on their own knowledge and experience. The use of AI tools during interviews is not permitted.
Privacy Notice
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Duck Creek Technologies may collect and process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with its Privacy Notice and applicable data protection laws.
Duck Creek Technologies does not accept, nor will we pay a fee for, any hires resulting from unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.
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Skills Required
- At least 5 years of professional Java engineering experience
- Strong experience developing backend web applications
- Proficiency with Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA, and Hibernate
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and software engineering best practices
- Experience with unit and integration testing and maintaining high code quality
- Proactive, pragmatic problem-solving approach
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team
- Experience with AWS, Apache Camel, Docker, Kubernetes, or other relevant cloud and DevOps technologies
- Experience in the insurance industry or with insurance-related software
Duck Creek Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Duck Creek Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Duck Creek Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally characterized as fair and competitive, with multiple statements describing overall satisfaction with total compensation. Pay is also linked to a positive work-life balance in at least one account.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with disability and life protections. Supplemental options like accident and critical illness coverage, plus HSA/FSA access, reinforce breadth of coverage.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits appear notably strong, highlighted by a 401(k) plan with an employer match that is positioned as above average. Vesting terms are explicitly noted, signaling a structured and meaningful retirement offering.
Duck Creek Technologies Insights
What We Do
Duck Creek Technologies is a leading provider of core system solutions and professional services to the P&C and General Insurance industry. All of our functionally rich solutions are available via Duck Creek On Demand, our enterprise SaaS solution.
Why Work With Us
Duck Creek has a highly collaborative work culture, which promotes open exchange of ideas across teams. Leadership is highly receptive of new ideas and help the teams execute it. Duck Creek is highly flexible in terms of work timings which ensures the employees to have a good work life balance.
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