Principal Software Engineer

Job Locations US-NH-Portsmouth | US-MA-Boston | US-IN-Indianapolis | US-TX-Plano | US-OH-Columbus
ID
2025-72721
Position Type
Full-Time
Minimum Salary
USD $117,000.00/Yr.
Maximum Salary
USD $221,000.00/Yr.
Flexible Time Off Annual Accrual - days
20

Description

Principal Software Engineer

Liberty Mutual Global Risk Solutions, Claims Tech

Evergreen Workers’ Compensation Transformation Program (Flagship Initiative)

 

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 drive a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech start-up within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance.

 

Evergreen Vision

Evergreen is Liberty Mutual’s multi-year, business-led, and technology-enabled flagship transformation program for our Workers’ Compensation line.

We will be trusted advisors in Workers Compensation by deploying our deep expertise to manage claims accurately and efficiently, producing the best outcomes for our customers and injured workers, while also providing best in class insights to improve risk management decision making.

Modern & Scalable Platform for WC

Replacement of existing claims core platform, with a new cloud platform for claims ops. that enables holistic claims handling along with modern capabilities that are market relevant, scalable, and future ready

Business Transformation

Reimagining of key business processes and functions to drive efficient processing and adherence to the best-in-class ways of handing claims

Technology Modernization Acceleration

Retirement of existing claims platform and modernization of the surrounding ecosystem with flexible, composable architecture with modular integrations

Extensible Solution Ecosystem

Improve overall technology landscape by building & enhancing shared scalable component solutions that can be leveraged beyond Evergreen

 

The Opportunity

As a principal software engineer you will be the technical lead and anchor for an agile squad providing mission critical capabilities for the Evergreen program - setting the foundation for the next-generation Workers’ Compensation system. You will provide critical technical leadership while helping to design and build greenfield features in support of our data and utilization management workstreams. You’ll leverage your extensive experience building secure, scalable, and resilient APIs to bring our critical business capability layers to life. You will employ your thought leadership, agility, and out-of-the-box thinking to help the team navigate delivery challenges with unique solutions. You will also help reinforce a culture of engineering excellence and code quality across the program, while providing essential mentoring and coaching to your entire team.

 

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience, demonstrating progressive responsibility and influence.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience

Proven track record working with various modern architectural patterns, including synchronous/asynchronous APIs, event-driven, serverless, microservices, and MVC

Hands-on experience with layered systems architecture, design, and shared software concepts

Extensive experience with clean coding practices and quality-focused design

Experience with CI/CD practices and DevOps principles

Experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk)

Experience designing secure systems, including threat modeling, authentication (authN), authorization (authZ), and STRIDE

Experience leading agile teams using SCRUM, Kanban or SAFe frameworks

Proven success delivering large-scale, multi-team projects or programs

 Proven ability to successfully mentor and coach junior engineers

 

Skills

Experience with API-based platform integration technologies, such as REST, GraphQL, microservices, Node.js, and Spring Boot

Expertise in Java and TypeScript; additional programming language experience preferred

Experience with modern cloud platforms and runtime environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)

Strong data engineering foundational skills: SQL, RDBMS, ETL

Proficiency with software development workflow tools, including GitHub, Codacy, Jira, Confluence, etc.

Familiarity using GenAI on large/diverse datasets and integrating in the development lifecycle

Collaborative and adaptable working style, with demonstrated initiative and ability to prioritize tasks and efforts

Solid negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills

Strong ability to analyze complex technical problems and recommend improvements to address technology gaps, while enhancing reliability, quality, and efficiency

 Excellent oral and written communication skills

Closely follows emerging technologies, architectural concepts, and principles

 

Preferred Qualifications

Strong familiarity with AWS serverless and Spring Boot stacks

Experience in the insurance domain, Workers’ Compensation, or claims

AWS Solutions Architect certified

Guidewire Insurance Suite experience

Background in compliance-heavy industries (healthcare, finance, etc.)

 

About Us

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

As a purpose-driven organization, Liberty Mutual is committed to fostering an environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. Through strong relationships, comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities, we seek to create an environment where employees can succeed, both professionally and personally.

At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. By actively seeking employee feedback and amplifying the voices of our seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are open to all, we create an environment where every individual can make a meaningful impact so we continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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