Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary: An experienced and strategic Senior Software Engineer to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor team members, and drive architectural and operational excellence. This role requires deep technical expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to influence both technical and business decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
Innovation & Complexity
- Leading Post-Mortems and Root Cause Analysis: Facilitate deep dives into critical incidents to identify systemic improvements.
- Solving Cross-Functional Technical Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues that span multiple systems or teams.
- Evaluating and Integrating New Technologies: Research and pilot new tools, frameworks, or platforms to enhance team capabilities.
- Mentoring on Complex Problem-Solving: Guide team members through complex technical challenges and decision-making.
- Leading System Architecture Improvements: Identify and implement architectural changes to improve scalability, performance, or maintainability.
- Designing Scalable Solutions: Create solutions that anticipate future growth and evolving requirements.
- Driving Process Optimization: Analyze and redesign development or deployment workflows to improve team efficiency.
- Communicating Complex Solutions to Stakeholders: Translate technical solutions into business value for non-technical stakeholders.
Organizational Impact
- Cross-Team Technical Leadership: Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple teams. Contribute to shared libraries, tools, or infrastructure.
- Quality Assurance & Risk Mitigation: Conduct in-depth code reviews and ensure adherence to standards. Identify and mitigate technical risks early in the development cycle.
- High-Impact Development: Implement core features or complex modules critical to the product. Optimize performance and scalability of existing systems.
- Advanced Software Design & Architecture: Design scalable, maintainable system architectures. Lead technical design reviews and propose innovative solutions.
- Technical Decision-Making: Evaluate and recommend new technologies or frameworks. Make architectural decisions with long-term impact.
Communication
- Representing the Team Externally: Act as a technical representative in cross-functional or client-facing initiatives.
- Explaining Policies and Practices: Communicate internal development standards, security protocols, or architectural decisions to internal and external teams.
- Resolving Technical Disagreements: Facilitate discussions, mediate differing technical perspectives, and ensure alignment on solutions.
- Mentoring and Coaching: Guide mid-level and junior developers on technical and professional growth.
- Leading Stakeholder Meetings: Facilitate discussions with clients or business stakeholders to gather input, align on goals, and manage expectations.
- Sharing Strategic Updates: Provide regular updates to leadership or clients on project status, risks, and milestones.
- Managing Expectations and Scope: Set realistic timelines and deliverables with stakeholders and renegotiate scope when needed.
- Influencing Operational Decisions: Advocate for changes in team workflows, tooling, or architecture based on experience and data.
Candidate Qualifications:
Knowledge & Experience
- Tech Stack: Extensive experience with Python, web frameworks (Flask, FastApi, Django), data manipulation (Pandas, Polars, NumPy, SQLAlchemy); architecting and deploying scalable serverless solutions in AWS; experience with React is an asset
- DevOps & Infrastructure: Design CI/CD pipelines and manage cloud infrastructure.
- Advanced Programming: Write optimized, secure, and reusable code across multiple technologies.
- Complex Problem Solving: Resolve deep technical issues and propose innovative solutions.
- Code Governance: Define and enforce coding standards and review processes.
- Software Architecture: Design scalable, maintainable, and secure system architectures.
- Technical Leadership: Lead development efforts and mentor team members.
- Knowledge Sharing: Lead workshops, write documentation, and mentor peers.
- Technical Decision-Making: Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and design patterns.
- Security & Performance: Implement advanced security and performance optimizations.
- Project Ownership: Responsible for implementation and quality of the end-to-end delivery of features or systems, collaborating closely with business design leads and stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with strategic goals, user needs, and operational realities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, design, QA, and operations teams.
- Industry Experience: reinsurance or insurance industry is an asset
Leadership Competencies & Values
- Impact: Sets objectives, delivers results, and implements policies/operational targets with direct impact on the department or individual work outcomes
- Execution: Proactively identifies resources, actions and timelines needed to achieve objectives, effectively balancing tactical pressures with broader implications and downstream impact
- Communication: Shares relevant information in a timely manner with stakeholders and conveys points of view in a way that influences opinions and demonstrates flexibility
- Client and solutions focus: Identifies process and service opportunities that enhance the external and internal client experience and outcomes
- Innovation: Stretches self and others to think differently and innovatively, drawing upon multiple sources for ideas and inspiration
- Learning mindset: Seeks out and explores new assignments, exposure, or challenges in order to enhance technical skills
- Values: Exemplifies and champions RenaissanceRe’s core values of Focus, Respect, Integrity, Precision, Passion
Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.
Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.
Top Skills
What We Do
RenaissanceRe is one of the world’s leading reinsurance companies, consistently recognised for our innovation, technical excellence and creative problem-solving.
Our clients are multi-national organizations and government entities who turn to us to help manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world, including climate change, natural hazards like wildfires and hurricanes, cyber threats and significant societal upheaval.
We’re proud of our world-class reputation for exceptional performance and being a trusted partner, there for our clients when it matters most. Our corporate purpose is to protect communities and enable prosperity. When disaster strikes, the claims we pay help keep businesses open and communities rebuild.
Ensuring that our technology ecosystem can anticipate and respond to unprecedented global change in the world order is an imperative. It is only through continuously seeking to innovate through transformative technology that we can deliver our strategic business priorities, aims, and objectives.
RenaissanceRe’s name comes from our founders’ intention to create a renaissance in quantifying and managing risk. Our success depends on the unique way we combine information, experience and technology to empower our decisions. We have developed new and cutting-edge technologies since the day we started in 1993 and have long been recognized as pioneers and technical innovators; designing and engineering solutions to rapidly serve clients and help them dynamically manage their business
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