Software Engineer

At Liberty Mutual, technology isn’t just a part of our business, it’s what drives us forward. We deliver our customers peace of mind every day by helping them protect what they value most. Our passion for placing the customer at the center of everything we do is driving a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance.

Architecture Enablement Team within Liberty Mutual Global Retail Markets – US is actively searching for a Software Engineer to join their team! This team provides architectural leadership, support and enablement of modern, cloud-native software development. Implementing and influencing a platform based on the latest tools, principles, patterns and practices of cloud-native engineering. This team builds capabilities that allow the organization focus on rapid delivery of business value. Our platform provides mission critical engineering enablement to our application teams, allowing them to create and instantly deploy new applications while taking advantage of open source enterprise-class capabilities.

Most importantly, you’ll be engaged in meaningful work in an organization that is committed to “helping people live safer, more secure lives” every day.

Responsibilities:

• Create tools, patterns, practices, and a cloud-native platform that allow teams to focus on delivering business value rapidly
• Analyze technical system problems, design and implement effective solutions
• Handle end-to-end development, including coding, testing, and debugging during each cycle
• Support feature technical implementation
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Executes all levels of testing (Unit, System, Integration, Regression)
• Research technology and bring new ideas to the team
• Possess a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into technology decisions
• Keeps informed of advances in IT and Agile Engineering practices

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience, technical degree preferred.
• 2+ years of professional development experience in a major development language (JavaScript) with emphasis on back-end services including experience with using AWS, server-side frameworks (preferably NodeJS) and managing APIs exposing microservices (REST) including development and support of Java/JavaScript services
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Git, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo
• You know how to write readable, maintainable, and performant code
• You have a deep knowledge of software engineering best practices
• You have a great ability to learn, and you are eager to expand your areas of expertise
• You have experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high-quality code
• You have experience in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues
• Familiarity with application monitoring tools such as Splunk, DataDog and AppDynamics(desired)
• Experience with Cloud Technologies such as AWS and Cloud Foundry (desired)
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker or Pivotal Cloud Foundry (desired)