Senior Software Developer

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.

About the job:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to join our Global Retail Markets U.S. Claims Technology organization. You will have the opportunity to work on a high performing Agile team. This team is focused upon the Journey of the Claims Adjuster, adding capabilities. Initiatives will involve the creation of new APIs/microservices, UIs, and integrations with eventing systems to optimize the Adjuster experience and ultimately delight our customers.

What youll do:

• Work with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and peer developers to iteratively create technical solutions that meet business and technical requirements

• Analyze technical system problems, and design and implement effective solutions

• Handle end-to-end development, including coding, testing, and debugging during each cycle

• Create applications using a server side framework

• Support feature technical implementation

• Create and maintain technical documentation

• Executes all levels of testing (Unit, System, Integration, Regression)

• Help with mentoring new and junior developers

• Collaborate with a product owner and an autonomous team of engineers to find comprehensive solutions

• Research technology and bring new ideas to the team

• Create libraries and tools which allow for scaling a large and distributed client development team

• Become a developer advocate improving technical communications with developers at Liberty Mutual and foster a deeper understanding to their problems and needs

• Facilitate collaboration between engineers, product owners, and designers

• Possess a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into technology decisions

• Mentor other engineers on your team

Who you are:

• Above all, you bring a team-first mindset you are the person everyone else wants to work with

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience, technical degree preferred.

• Generally 5+ years of professional development experience in Java/J2EE combined with general front-end JavaScript and experience developing backend/RESTful services

• Strong oral and written communication skills; presentation skills

• Proficient in negotiation, facilitation and consensus building skills

• Desire to learn and implement new and emerging technologies

• Thorough knowledge of the following: IT concepts, strategies and methodologies

• Business function(s) and of business operations

• Design and development tools, Architectures and technical standards

• Thorough knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered solutions and designs; understanding of shared software concepts.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and tools

• Understanding of agile software development concepts and processes

• Must be proactive, and demonstrate initiative and be a logical thinker

• Thorough understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, and incremental delivery

• Collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills required

Highly Competitive Candidates Will Have:

• In-depth enterprise-level software development experience in Java/J2EE.

• Solid programming discipline: unit testing, fault tolerance, data structures, complexity analysis, object oriented principles, design patterns, etc.

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Hands on, in-depth experience with TDD and Unit Testing Frameworks.

• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices

• Understanding of data storage and retrieval using relational and NoSQL distributed databases.

• In-depth knowledge of Service Oriented Architectures, microservices and shared software concepts.

• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms (e.g. Amazon, Azure, etc...).

• Familiarity with distributed messaging (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, etc)

• Experience using Source Control Management Systems (e.g. Git, RTC, SVN, ClearCase).

• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc) is preferred.

Benefits & Culture:

At Liberty Mutual we embrace all of the values of our Fortune 100 company and push our practices and technology skill sets to the next level. In our organization, we are an Agile set of teams dedicated to helping impact the lives of thousands of customers every day. We embrace a modern co-working style with exceptional work/life balance, ergonomic work areas, substantial benefits, and best-in-class amenities; we are headquartered Bostons Back Bay.

Liberty Mutual is one of America's Best Employers for Diversity and one of the Best Employers for Women http://bit.ly/LibertyMutual-BestPlacesToWorkforWomen one of the Best Employers for New Grads http://bit.ly/LibertyMutual-BestPlacesforNewGrads and one of the Best Places to Work http://bit.ly/LibertyMutual-BestPlacestoWork . We offer excellent benefits for our employees including generous parental leave, retirement plans including 401k and pension, education reimbursement, commuter benefits, college savings plans, and much more.

To learn more about our benefit offerings and culture please visit:

https://LMI.co/Benefits

http://bit.ly/LibertyMutual-Culture

EOE Statement:

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace an environment that is free from all discrimination in the workplace, in its business, or by its vendors. Liberty Mutual values diversity and the differences and similarities of our employees. We foster a diverse and inclusive work environment that leads to better ideas, stronger teams and more innovative products and services for our customers. Learn More: