IT Senior Software Engineer/IT Software Engineer

Posted on: 07-05-2025

Description:

Division or Field Office:
 
 Product & Sales Technology Division
 Department of Position: Erie Family Life Tech Dept
 
 Work from: Corporate Office in Erie, Pa
 Salary Range:
 
$97,388.00 - $155,567.00 *
 
salary range is for this level and may vary based on actual level of role hired for
 
*This range represents a national range and the actual salary will depend on several factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the skills, education, training, credentials, location, and experience of an applicant, as well as level of role for which the successful candidate is hired. Position may be eligible for an annual bonus payment.
 
At Erie Insurance, you're not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you're also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia.
 
Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics
 
We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers-and to our employees. That's why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including: 

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.

Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.
 
 Position Summary

Designs, develops, and maintains complex computer software. Leads or participates in high complexity/risk projects including creating technical design documentation, performing code and unit test reviews, and validating the overall cohesion and quality of the project or support team deliverables with high impact. Delivers high complexity/risk code/configurations under minimal supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud.

What You'll Do:
 
This opportunity is for a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer to lead the Software Engineering effort for Erie Family Life initiatives. Currently, this work is focused on the Erie Family Life technology platform framework re-structuring which will optimize agent and customer utilization. This program is transitioning ERIE's Life products to both new front-end and back-end modern technical platforms. This role would be an opportunity to lead a large-scale, high-priority effort from the Software Engineering perspective, across multiple business and IT units in an Agile environment.
 
Preferred Experience & Skills: 

• Develops high-quality software design, tools, and applications, by producing clean, efficient code.
• Identifies, prioritizes, and executes tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Reviews and debugs code.
• Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing).
• Documents development phases and monitors systems.
• Ensures software is updated and supported.
• Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams, vendors, and portfolios.
• Coaches and mentors peers and junior engineers.
• May perform as a technical lead on a medium to high complexity/risk project or a production support team/service team.
• May participate in Proof of Concept (POC) execution under the leadership of a Technology Architect or Principal Engineer.
• Prior software development and technology implementation experience required.
• Prior experience in agile process, scrum teams and knowledge of related IT disciplines required.
• Ability to successfully communicate and align conceptual approach to technical design required.
• Prior insurance Industry knowledge preferred.
• Prior experience in the following technologies:
• Mendix (preferred)
• Python
• Java
• HTML
• SQL
• .NET
• Systems integration

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Demonstrates technical competencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Experience providing accurate estimations.
• Has the ability to identify, coordinate, and communicate with partner teams across and outside of the Erie enterprise as warranted.
• Work on Agile Teams and/or EBA
• Prior experience leading a moderate to large team on a high-profile, high-priority project
• Experience with ERIE's Personal, Commercial, and/or Erie Family Life products
• Experience with Jira and Miro

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops high-quality software design, tools, and applications, by producing clean, efficient code.
• Identifies, prioritizes, and executes tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Reviews and debugs code.
• Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing).
• Documents development phases and monitors systems.
• Ensures software is updated and supported.
• Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams, vendors, and portfolios.
• Coaches and mentors peers and junior engineers.
• May perform as a technical lead on a medium complexity/risk project or a production support team/service team.
• May participate in Proof of Concept (POC) execution under the leadership of a Technology Architect or Principal Engineer.

The first four duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.
 
 This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.
 
 Capabilities

• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Instills Trust
• Decision Quality
• Values Diversity
• Nimble Learning
• Customer Focus
• Optimizes Work Processes (IC)
• Ensures Accountability
• Coding And Converting
• Information Management Skills
• Job-Specific Knowledge
• Proofing Text And Numbers
• Using Tables And Graphs

Qualifications
 
Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and five years' related experience; or
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience; or
• High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience.

Additional Experience

• Possesses significant acumen in one or more practice areas with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in additional practice areas: front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, data science, required.

Designation and/or Licenses 

• Certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred
• Pursuance of advanced certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (

20%) * Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Occasional (
 
 20%) * Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely 

• Driving; Occasional (

20%) * Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely 

• Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%)
• Climbing/accessing heights; Rarely

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