Sr. Software Engineer

Lead Software EngineerOn-site four days per week in Woodbridge Township, NJ. Our client seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and lead a critical enterprise application in the insurance domain. The role requires leadership, application ownership, and hands-on development across middleware, web services, and SQL Server. The engineer will design, develop, test, and support solutions, drive architectural decisions, and handle operational data requests, including large-scale SQL updates. The position is on-site four days per week in New Jersey and will require on-site interviews.We can facilitate W2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.Rate: $72.00 to $80.00/hr. W2Responsibilities:Create and support business solutions by designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring, and documenting products and projects for the insurance business.Ensure requirement statements are complete, consistent, feasible, and unambiguous.Collaborate across teams including business analysts, project managers, QA, data providers, and software vendors.Communicate difficult or sensitive information to key stakeholders.Provide input to project plans, estimates, and schedules.Create and deliver organized presentations.Design systems using established design methodologies and best practices with a focus on maintainability.Analyze requirements and issues, recommend optimal solutions, and research and track problems to resolution.Proactively identify and resolve quality issues to minimize defects.Identify critical issues, suggest process improvements, and propose solutions.Take initiative to diagnose production performance issues and implement corrective solutions.Experience Requirements:A minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.Expert-level SQL Server skills, including complex queries, large-scale data updates, data analysis, data mining, and performance tuning. Experience with DB2 and MS SQL Server.Strong middleware and web services experience, including REST, SOAP, JMS, ESB (Mule), and service-layer architecture.Full-stack development background with Java/J2EE 8+, Spring MVC, Angular v11+, TypeScript/JavaScript, CSS libraries such as Bootstrap and PrimeNG, JSON, MyBatis, XML, XSLT, Maven, JBOSS.Ability to develop solutions that improve performance and scalability.Nice to have: AWS experience such as Lambda, S3, and application development on AWS. Insurance industry experience and prior ownership of enterprise applications.Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io Eliassen Group: Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. 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