Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

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.

• 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 incident response, including leading diagnosis and coordination for complex incidents and driving corrective/preventive improvements.
• Implement and improve observability practices (structured logging, tracing, diagnostics, and actionable alerts).
• Participate in controls compliance and auditing activities and adhere to SCOR information security policies and best practices, including PII handling, secrets management, and required security training.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SDLC standards, tooling, and team effectiveness.
• Model and encourage responsible AI-assisted development practices for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Other duties as required for the position.