Lead Software Engineer, Artificial Intelligence and Automation

$157,000 - $259,200/Yr

Travelers - Hartford, CT

Full-time - Mid Level

Hartford, CT

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About the position

The Lead Software Engineer for Artificial Intelligence and Automation at Travelers will play a pivotal role in transforming the company's technology capabilities. This position involves guiding a team of software and data engineers, driving best practices, and ensuring technical excellence in large-scale strategic initiatives. The role requires collaboration with product and technology leadership to deliver high-quality applications and influence the direction of innovative products.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and effectively influence across multiple teams to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.
• Align work with business and engineering priorities to realize meaningful impact.
• Build, maintain, and utilize partnerships ensuring the best use of overall resources.
• Provide technical leadership, foster a team environment, and provide mentorship and feedback to technical resources.
• Ensure team's work complies with Travelers standards, processes, and protocols.
• Provide consistent performance feedback and coaching to staff.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience.
• Five years of programming/development experience.
• One year of experience in technical leadership.
• Seven years of programming/development experience plus two years prior technical leadership experience preferred.
• Past experience working with Python and/or Javascript.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS services is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced delivery skills including the ability to examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies and methodologies across an organization.
• Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to leverage expertise to improve company level capabilities within domain.
• Strong problem solver who creates architecture that is particularly robust against single points of failure.
• Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand.
• Advanced leadership skills including the ability to leverage internal networks across engineering.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members 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.
• 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: Access to tools, discounts, and resources to achieve wellness goals and caregiving needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program to give back to the charity of your choice.