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Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale IA and Wilmington DE BTS provides innovative and customerfocused IT solutions to the majority of WRBCs 60 operating units across the globe. BTSs wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible.
Driven by a commitment to collaboration BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand but proactively plan for the Whats Next in our industry and beyond.
With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future leaders who truly care about growing not only their team members but themselves and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles youd never known existed. Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions.
Berkley Technology Services: Right Team Right Technology Simple and Secure.
Responsibilities
A Staff Engineer at Berkley is the continuation of an individual contributor role that begins to focus on the scaling of engineering. The person in this role is responsible for the design development modification analysis and implementation of software programming applications for the various subsidiaries of the corporation. They are responsible for updating and/or enhancing existing software capabilities applying principles and techniques of computer science engineering and mathematical analysis.
Core Responsibilities:
- Perform code review upholding best practices and architectural patterns 25
- Design new software engineering implementation patterns for consumption at scale 25
- Solving complex business challenges leveraging new and existing technology 35
- Creating system documentation and mentoring junior team members 10
- Perform recruiting screening and technical assessments of incoming candidates 5
Other Duties:
- Promote innovation with the courage to challenge norms.
- Tackle complex problems using simplification and experimentation.
- Guard product quality through diligence in security performance and observability.
- Aggressively seek out technical debt in both process and code and ideate on faster delivery.
- Maintain and refine metrics for engineering success. Advocate for these through code review.
- Invest in mentoring team members. Nurture growth in autonomy through critical thinking problem analysis and technical maturity.Proposes software solutions.
- Develops designs and edits original applications or modifies thirdparty applications.
- Tests and approves applications.
- Analyze and define software requirements to determine specifications and standards; provides feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions.
- Produces significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction.
- Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system.
- Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology.
- May provide rotating oncall support of production systems.
- Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications.
- Travel for this position is approximately 510.
Qualifications
- 7 years experience in java or objectoriented programming
- 7 years of React experience
- 5 years of Nextjs experience
- 5 years experience in an agile environment
- 5 years experience in integrating systems through APIs
- Ability to communicate complex ideas into technical implementation requirements
- Experience working in an agile environment focusing on iterative delivery
- Ability to convey complex problems (technical or organizational) concisely accompanied by thoughtfully proposed solutions
- Performs work independently.
- Uses advanced techniques theories and processes to complete work.
- Software Development Life Cycle experience.
- Ability to thrive and produce results with little or no supervision in a fastpaced entrepreneurial environment.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to interact seamlessly at all levels with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Superior problem solving and analytical skills.
- Bachelors degree with emphasis in related field or equivalent experience.
The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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