Director, Sr Software Engineer - Velogica

Senior individual contributor role at SCOR's Velogica platform in Charlotte, NC (hybrid), with a yearly salary range of USD 120,000 to 160,000.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery for medium to large initiatives spanning multiple components and services.
• Lead 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 without formal authority.
• Contribute to implementation and test automation efforts, including unit, integration, and regression coverage.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and uphold quality gates such as peer reviews, 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, leading diagnosis and coordinating for complex incidents and driving corrective and preventive improvements.
• Implement and improve observability practices through structured logging, tracing, diagnostics, and actionable alerts.
• Participate in controls compliance and auditing activities and adhere 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 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 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 or components.
• Ability to influence peers and partner teams through technical credibility, communication, and collaborative execution.
• Mentoring or coaching 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, metrics and logging; observability tooling.
• 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: Elevates engineering standards and aligns teams through design quality, code review, and technical leadership without formal people-management authority.

Technologies

• Java
• REST APIs
• SQL
• CI/CD

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 and Development Resources
• Personal Wellness Tools and Rewards
• Gym memberships through a nationwide network and local studios