Associate Software Engineer

Job Description

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 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.

At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation, and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects.

Job Introduction: 

Do you have the skills and drive to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform a trillion-dollar industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating intuitive consumer apps, Liberty Mutual is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. In this role at Liberty Mutual, you’ll participate in highly complex projects and solve technical problems, while working in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up and the full backing and comprehensive benefits of a Fortune 100 company. 

You will work collaboratively on a geographically diverse agile team to develop and enhance complex systems and/or software from user stories and technical/architectural specifications. You will be helping to solve business problems and drive direct outcomes thought innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations, driving best in class claims experiences. 

**This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days in the office a week. We are open to Plano, TX, Boston, MA and Portsmouth, NH as well. **  

We encourage you to apply and bring your expertise if you’re a: 

• Emerging technical contributor: Write clean, tested code with guidance while learning to create documentation and following deployment procedures to support reliable software.
• Customer-aware developer: Support the translation of customer requirements into technical solutions and assist in implementing new features.
• Eager team player: Apply your growing technical skills while learning from senior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Learning-focused contributor: Address immediate tasks effectively while developing skills to identify opportunities for improvement in code quality and processes.

This is a fast-paced environment providing rapid delivery for our business partners in delivering best in class Claims solutions. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment that values speed and quality, with a strong desire to drive change and foster positive work. You will have the opportunity to help lead this change with us as we grow this culture, mindset, and capability.

In this role you will: 

• Work closely with a team of software engineers to contribute to complex software solutions.
• Develop maintainable, scalable code that meets business requirements and team standards with guidance from senior team members.
• Participate in an agile environment with business stakeholders, product owners, solutions engineers and other software engineers to understand and implement stories using good engineering practices.
• Support speed to market by working on current product needs and learning long-term strategic solutions using technologies such as Java, SpringBoot, Node.js, and other potential backend languages.
• Learn to utilize cloud services and tools, including AWS and Cloud Foundry.
• Hands-on development and problem resolution, writing clean, maintainable code and participating in peer code-reviews.
• Support collaboration with data science teams to help implement machine learning pipelines, data preprocessing workflows, and automated model training processes.
• Assist with production deployments and support under supervision.
• Learn to optimize performance for applications & web.

• 1-2 years of software engineering experience.
• Interest in business operations and strategies, with curiosity about business IT.
• Demonstrated ability or eagerness to learn how to translate technical concepts into user-facing features.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and willingness to adopt a design-thinking mindset.
• Strong collaboration, adaptability, and flexibility with the ability to learn time management and prioritization skills in a globally distributed development team.
• Good oral and written communication skills with willingness to learn to explain technical decisions.
• Basic understanding of writing clean code with eagerness to learn maintainable and efficient practices.
• Developing understanding of how code changes affect different parts of a system.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• You must have permanent work authorization in the United States.