Lead an engineering team by building alongside team members while remaining accountable for their professional growth, the team delivery outcomes, and the technical health of its systems.
Own technical decisions within established engineering standards; engage senior engineering leadership to help shape and influence broader impacting decisions.
Partner with product ownership on outcome definition; own system design, delivery cost, and technical feasibility while actively contributing to scope and priority discussions.
Perform complex analysis, advanced design, and development on high-visibility, high-impact work across rating systems and the broader technology stack.
Mentor engineers at every experience level through pairing, code review, design review, and deliberate delegation; provide candid, timely feedback and identify what each team member is ready for next.
Manage technical trade-offs related to system flexibility, technical debt, and cross-team integration contracts; keep those trade-offs visible and on the backlog.
Surface capacity constraints and escalate unresolved technical-product disagreements rather than absorbing them quietly.
Maintain operational artifacts and ensure system status is findable without interrupting the team.
Partner with data science and actuarial teams to support integration of analytical models (GLMs, GBMs, and externally developed models) into the rating and pricing platform, including BYOM and MLOps patterns.
Contribute to broader engineering standards and represent the team's ground-level perspective on cross-cutting patterns.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Five or more years of progressive software engineering experience, including technical leadership of team efforts.
Delivery -- Advanced delivery skills: ability to set software design strategy, apply automated testing and feedback loops, ensure production readiness, and monitor the health of adjacent systems.
Technical Leadership -- Demonstrated ability to reason about system flexibility, manage technical debt deliberately, and own integration contracts between systems.
Rating Systems Experience -- Experience working with insurance rating systems, rating engines, or pricing platforms; familiarity with how rating logic is structured, maintained, and evolved across product lines.
Earnix -- Experience with Earnix or similar rating and pricing platforms is strongly preferred; understanding of how to integrate, configure, and extend such platforms within a broader technology ecosystem.
Analytics & Model Integration -- Familiarity with how predictive models are developed, validated, and deployed into production rating environments; experience with MLOps patterns, model registries, or BYOM integration approaches (e.g., ONNX, Docker, API-based model serving) is a plus.
Domain Expertise -- Track record of building business partnerships, influencing priorities with technically grounded solutions, and staying current with industry trends.
People Development -- Ability to assess engineers' strengths and readiness, communicate growth expectations plainly, and create learning opportunities through deliberate delegation and mentorship.
Problem Solving -- Strong problem solver who uses data and proofs of concept to navigate ambiguous, loosely scoped problems; reflects on outcomes and applies lessons to future work.
Communication -- Able to describe technical concepts in terms the business understands, document work concisely, give and receive candid feedback, and foster inclusive team discussion.
Agile Fluency -- Comfortable working in an agile environment; able to balance outcome delivery, debt, and enabler work across sprints in partnership with product ownership.
What is a Must Have?
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
6 additional years of software engineering experience.
What Is in It for You?
Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – 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. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
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: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.
