Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range$120,400.00 - $198,700.00As a member of the Enterprise AI and Emerging Technology organization at Travelers, you'll be joining a strategic and collaborative team focused on transforming our business and technology capabilities leveraging best in class AI-enabled technology. We're looking for a Software Engineer II in the Enterprise AI Platforms organization to join our team focused on delivering the agent harnesses and platform capabilities that enable and accelerate the development of generative AI applications across the enterprise.
• Will embed with partner teams to accelerate high-priority agentic delivery, moving to where the need is greatest and leaving those teams able to sustain the work. Engineers at this level work across the full architecture of product delivery from requirements gathering to maintenance and enhancement of existing systems.
• Will lead solution design for assigned workstreams, participate in stakeholder conversations, and build collective ownership across engineering, architecture, and product.
• This role is for engineers who become productive quickly in unfamiliar codebases and who bring production-ready delivery experience to a fast-paced environment.What Will You Do?
- Design and deliver production-grade harness capabilities that engineering teams leverage to build and deploy generative AI applications.
- Drive architecture and system design for agentic components across multiple teams, advancing the technical patterns and engineering standards adopted across the enterprise.
- Help teams align to enterprise standards and practices in source code management, testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering principles.
- Advance test automation and raise the quality bar on the harness and the systems it serves.
- Apply systems thinking to identify and resolve the cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks that slow delivery down.
- Mentor engineers inside and outside the team and contribute reusable capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
- Engage directly in stakeholder conversations and translate technical direction into terms the business can act on.
- Participate in cross-organizational engineering events and technical forums to share harness patterns and practices across the enterprise.
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including demonstrated production delivery of AI solutions you have supported at scale.
- Proficiency in Python, with experience in additional languages such as TypeScript, particularly for building AI integrations.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and evaluating generative AI applications, including the runtime concerns around them: orchestration, tool interfaces, context and memory management, and guardrails.
- Experience using agentic coding tools, with an informed point of view on where they help and where they fall short.
- Hands-on experience across the cloud delivery stack: AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or CDK, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience designing, delivering, and maintaining large, distributed, production-grade applications in an enterprise setting, including third-party vendor software and secure-by-design development practices.
- SME-level depth in multiple technical disciplines, with the ability to get productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase and operate across multiple projects at once.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to lead technical conversations with non-technical business stakeholders and translate complex capabilities into measurable business outcomes.
- Experience with agentic runtimes and harness platforms such as AWS AgentCore.
- OSS agent frameworks such as Strands Agents or LangGraph experience.
- Helm for Kubernetes application deployment experience.
- Observability tooling and distributed tracing in production environments experience.
- Zero-trust security principles when building and deploying enterprise systems experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
- 4 additional years of software engineering experience.
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, related STEM field, or equivalent
- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience (production delivery of AI solutions)
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with TypeScript (for building AI integrations)
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and evaluating generative AI applications (orchestration, tool interfaces, context/memory management, guardrails)
- Experience using agentic coding tools
- Experience across cloud delivery stack: AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK)
- CI/CD tooling experience such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Experience designing, delivering, and maintaining large distributed, production-grade enterprise applications
- Subject-matter expertise across multiple technical disciplines and ability to work in unfamiliar codebases
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical direction for business stakeholders
- Experience with agentic runtimes and harness platforms such as AWS AgentCore
- Experience with OSS agent frameworks such as Strands Agents or LangGraph
- Helm experience for Kubernetes application deployment
- Observability tooling and distributed tracing experience in production environments
- Experience applying zero-trust security principles when building and deploying enterprise systems
Travelers Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Travelers and has not been reviewed or approved by Travelers.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests total rewards are bolstered by a 401(k) match, a company‑funded pension, and a program that contributes to retirement savings when employees make student‑loan payments. These elements are consistently portrayed as standout strengths of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests time off is generous from the start, with substantial PTO, paid holidays, and the option to purchase additional days. Defined leaves such as short‑term disability and bereavement further enhance perceived flexibility.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision coverage is comprehensive, with multiple plan choices, HSAs/FSAs, and robust mental‑health and wellness resources. Day‑one eligibility and added programs like caregiver support and specialty care navigation reinforce depth.
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What We Do
Travelers provides insurance coverage to protect the things that are important to you – your home, your car, your valuables and your business. We have been around for more than 165 years and have earned a reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry because we take care of our customers, agents, brokers, communities and each other. Every day, our approximately 30,000 employees and 13,500 independent agents and brokers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland help provide peace of mind to our customers. Our expertise and focus on innovation have made us an industry leader and the only property casualty company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Our history of advancements has propelled our company, and our industry, to deliver higher standards – from writing the first auto and space travel policies to founding the Travelers Institute for public policy and launching a hybrid car discount. By minimizing risk, preventing loss and helping our customers prepare for the unknown, Travelers’ comprehensive products and services enable individuals and businesses to feel confident and secure about the future.
