Applied Riskhandler – Team Expansion

 Exp - 5+yrs

Background:

Applied Riskhandler is an underwriting platform for MGA’s and Insurers. It provides for the specific requirements of insurance product providers, rather than brokers. It provides a rich solution for building and maintaining insurance products, for quoting and issuing cover, generating complex documents, risk selection, risk enrichment, claims handling, accounting, renewal workflow and M.I./Reporting. The platform integrates with Applied Ireland’s broker systems, so that Riskhandler hosted insurance products are made available to brokers via their Applied broker management systems.

The platform is mature, proven (and popular), having been live in the Ireland market since 2012. However, we have a roadmap of new features and functionality to add over time, and to deepen the integration between Riskhandler and Applied’s broker systems. In May 2023, we launched our new “Product Builder” toolset on the platform, which accelerates our speed to market for new customer product builds. That toolset will continue to evolve and mature over time. As of early 2025, this new toolset is hosting at least six new insurance products in the market, plus several more in the pipeline.

Demand for Riskhandler in Ireland is very strong. We have a healthy pipeline of new customer project opportunity.

Riskhandler is an asp.net browser application. Most of the solution is built on .net framework webforms, with vb.net code behind. Recently, we’ve added a .net framework Web API project (C#) to the solution, to provide RESTful API functionality for our customers, and for API integration with our Applied Broker systems. The product is hosted on Azure.

Expansion:

Due to high demand for the product, we need to expand our team, and fill the roles described below.

Onboarding:

The new team will learn the product and codebase by delivering on customer change requests initially, progressing to new feature/product roadmap engineering in time. Colleagues in Ireland will support and mentor the new team, as we build experience and throughput.

Technology:

1. net, C#, ASP.net Webforms, AJAX
2. Basic knowledge of Web API
3. Basic knowledge of Javascript / JQuery
4. Version Control: GIT Lab
5. Good to have.
   1. ORM: LINQ to SQL with ADO.net
   2. Third party Tools
      1. Telerik Web UI
      2. Restsharp

Senior Developer

We wish to add an experienced Senior Developer to our engineering team. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in designing, developing, and maintaining high quality software, whilst liaising with the Riskhandler team leadership and SDET colleagues.

1. Software Development:

• Design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions based on given requirements and specifications,
• Code principally in VB.net in an asp.net webform project,
• Collaborate with your manager and colleagues to ensure alignment with project objectives,
• Debug, test, and optimise your code to ensure performance, robustness, and understandability.

2. Team Collaboration:

• Assist junior developers by providing guidance, feedback, and code reviews,
• Collaborate with the testing team to ensure software quality,
• Actively participate in team meetings, sharing insights and suggestions,
• Participate in regular Agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, refinement session and sprint retrospectives.

3. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices,
• Introduce innovative solutions and techniques to improve the development process,
• Contribute to continuous codebase refactoring to maintain high standards and ease of maintenance,
• Stay updated with, and contribute to, Riskhandler’s coding standards, making sure that you adhere to those standards. Assist junior engineering colleagues to conform to those same standards.

4. Documentation:

• When requested, document software solutions for better understanding and future reference,
• When requested, contribute to pre-build, documented solution design work,
• Provide clear and dependable responses to your manager regarding project progress and challenges.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology (or a similar, related degree, that includes programming modules),
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on experience in professional software development, with a proficiency in .net web applications (framework or core) of any architecture (webforms, MVC, Razor, Blazor server etc) using any .net language (C#, F# or VB.net),
• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC),
• Experience with version control systems like Azure DevOps or Git,
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and solve complex technical problems,
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal,
• Proven ability to work both independently and in collaborative team environments,

Proven ability to suggest robust and elegant software solutions to real-world problems