Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

SCOR’s Velogica platform invites a Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of technical delivery, steward architecture and design decisions, and mentor teammates while maintaining hands-on delivery. This hybrid role is based in Charlotte, NC, with a compensation range of USD 120,000 to 160,000 per year. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in information services management, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and at least 7 years of software engineering experience.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) Plan with a competitive match
• Company-funded Defined Contribution Retirement Program
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long- and Short-Term Disability
• Flexible Parental Leave
• Unlimited Sick Days
• Volunteer Time
• Summer Fridays
• Learning & Development Resources
• Personal Wellness Tools and Rewards
• Competitively priced gym memberships from a large nationwide network of brands

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical delivery for medium to large initiatives that span multiple components and services
• Steer architecture and design decisions for backend and service oriented solutions, balancing performance, maintainability, security, and operability trade-offs
• Influence technical direction and engineering practices across teams through clear design artifacts, code reviews, and evidence-based recommendations
• Contribute to implementation and test automation efforts, including unit, integration, and regression coverage
• Leverage CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates such as peer reviews, linting, security checks, and automated tests before release
• Create and maintain project, system, and testing documentation, including runbooks and known-issue notes
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, demos, and daily scrums to communicate progress and unblock impediments
• Collaborate with implementation and business teams to support client onboarding and integration activities
• Engage in rotating production support and incident response, leading diagnosis and coordination for complex incidents and driving improvements
• Implement and improve observability practices through structured logging, tracing, diagnostics, and actionable alerts
• Participate in controls compliance and auditing activities, adhering to SCOR information security policies including PII handling, secrets management, and required security training
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SDLC standards, tooling, and team effectiveness
• Model and promote responsible AI assisted development practices for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation
• Other duties as required for the position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information services management, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in Agile delivery environments
• Proven ability to deliver reliable software in high-availability, high-volume service ecosystems
• Strong expertise with Java and service oriented backend development, including REST APIs, data persistence, and SQL against complex data models
• Experience with modern engineering workflows and tooling, including source control, issue tracking, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing
• Experience leading technical design and implementation for complex features spanning multiple services/components
• Ability to influence peers and partner teams through technical credibility, communication, and collaborative execution
• Mentoring and coaching of engineers through design and code feedback
• Strong analytical problem solving, verbal and written communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills
• Ability to operate with high autonomy, proactively identify risks, propose mitigations, and drive work to completion
• Cloud hosted systems and operational tooling including compute, storage, queues, and metrics/logging
• Observability tooling experience
• Cross-team technical lead experience
• Insurance or reinsurance domain knowledge
• Scope: Owns technical delivery for large initiatives with cross-service and cross-team impact
• Complexity: Solves ambiguous, multi-system problems with clear trade-offs across performance, maintainability, security, and delivery speed
• Autonomy: Executes independently with minimal day-to-day direction while maintaining transparent stakeholder communication
• Influence: Raises engineering standards and aligns teams through design quality, code review, and technical leadership without formal people-management authority