Application Developer (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

Selective Insurance's Transformation Office has a fantastic opportunity for a highly-motivated, hands-on, and self-starting individual to join this accomplished team. The successful candidate will work on development initiatives that will drive our product transformation efforts forward; including but not limited to developing, managing, and maintaining integrations between key business solutions, building creative dashboards to present complex data, and developing views for users to interact with and manage product development work. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in enhancing our technological capabilities and enabling greater value delivery across our organization.

• Work on creating new capabilities that optimize and expand our portfolio management system to align with our transformation goals.
• Design and implement tools to visualize data, providing clear and actionable insights that guide strategic decision-making.
• Develop, manage, and maintain integrations between key business solutions.
• Debugs and troubleshoots system and performance issues.
• Ensures software engineering best practices and standards are applied, including documentation and change management.
• Supports customer advocacy and proxy, participating in engagement with internal customers to understand needs, optimize feedback mechanisms, and help incorporate outcomes in product scope and design.
• Contributes to creation of estimates, implementation plans, research and design, and overall department goals.

• 3-5 years of proven experience as Software Engineer or Application Developer
• Experience in software engineering, preferably web-based applications / full-stack development.
• Good understanding of C#/.Net, Javascript/JSON, REST APIs, SQL and modern development patterns.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to work with various stakeholders across product teams.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology, processes, business models and user behaviors.
• Experience working on or with agile teams and release trains, and knowledge of SAFe.
• Preferred: Experience with custom integrations, e.g. previously developed seamless connections between key corporate systems, ensuring data flows effortlessly to unlock insights and efficiencies.
• Preferred: Experience with Data Analytics, e.g. previously performed data analytics, providing actionable insights to empower product teams to make quicker, smarter decisions.
• Bonus: Development experience with IBM/Apptio Targetprocess, Azure DevOps platforms.

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and paid time off plans. Additional details about our total rewards package will be provided during the recruiting process.

The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.