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$150000 - $190000 / year

Vertafore is looking for a Frontend Architect to help us grow our platform applications and component libraries. In this role, you’ll be constantly improving our platform handling millions of insurance policies and providing valuable analytics to the insurance industry.

This is a unique opportunity to play a critical role in a changing and very complex industry. Join us and discover a dynamic work environment built around a commitment to continuous innovation and the drive to exceed demanding expectations every day.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Defining technical architecture for major parts of the frontend stack at Vertafore across our portfolio of applications.

• Implementing significant portions of the frontend component architecture and help others with implementation.

• Understanding how technical decisions drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high quality to those outcomes.

• Performing design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers at Vertafore.

• Work with DevOps teams on JavaScript application build and deployment toolchains and processes.

• Present and evangelize Vertafore’s front end architecture and standards to executives, development teams, and product management teams.

• Work with our UX team on JavaScript control standardization and reuse strategies and help ensure the technical feasibility of UX team designs.

• Collaborate with other architects, the UX team, and Product Management to design and build compelling user experiences.

• Mentor development team members and lead by example in your efforts to mentor, collaborate, and write awesome code.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Technical Leadership: hands on experience setting technical direction and strategy.

• Strong communication skills and collaboration skills. With the ability to lead high level discussions on technology strategy and approach.

• Experience with producing architecture diagrams and supporting documentation.

• Able to plan, conduct, and report on architecture and design reviews.

• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross functional products.

• Familiarity with Application UX design and accessibility standards.

• Ability to do performance optimization on frontend bundling and CI/CD pipelines.

• Technical writing skills to document patterns in tools like Storybook or internal wikis.

• Extensive experience with modern UI testing frameworks.

• Expert in UI performance optimization techniques.

• Experience with and enthusiasm for providing constructive feedback in code reviews and for pull requests.

• Experience with Web Application state management strategies.

• Highly proficient in communicating technical issues with developers, product owners, executives, and other stakeholders. Experience acting as a technical liaison between Product Management, Development, and Operations.

• Demonstrable interest in emerging / nascent technologies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.

• 5+ years front-end development experience in a tech environment.

• Strong technical skills with JavaScript, TypeScript, React or a similar frontend component-based architecture. The Vertafore platform is built on React, but we have various applications using other frontend frameworks.

• Experience building frontend frameworks that improve developer velocity and quality, preferably using Bootstrap.

• Experience with frontend testing. The Vertafore platform leverages Playwright and React Testing Library.

• Expertise in CSS-in-JS (Emotion/styled-components) and design systems.

• Experience integrating front end components with web services based on REST and JSON with libraries like React Query.

• Extensive experience with Git.

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 10% of the time.

• Located and working from an office location.

• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.

• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.