Backend Software Engineer

Liberty Mutual Insurance•Boston, MA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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 the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects. This role has a hybrid work schedule (2 days onsite) and we are considering candidates based in Portsmouth, NH, Boston, MA, Plano, TX, Indianapolis, IN. Job Introduction: The US Retail Markets ( USRM) Personal Lines Product Tech group is looking to add 2 Backend Software Engineer’s to their team. If selected, you will have the opportunity to leverage your skills to build tools and solutions used to enable our critical operations. You will work on a technology stack consisting of Spring, modern Java, and relational database integration. We’re looking for passionate candidates to join our agile team focused on modernizing our applications. You’ll be working with cutting-edge AWS technologies, and event-driven and real-time architecture, while leveraging modern frameworks like React, and Python. Our projects involve new development initiatives and transforming legacy systems, using modern CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalable, efficient delivery. If you thrive in a collaborative environment with a strong team culture and close stakeholder partnerships, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 3+ years of Software Engineering experience.
Experience working in an agile environment utilizing Scrum, Kanban or XP.
Demonstrated success in platform modernization initiatives, utilizing technologies such as REST; micro services; cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud; and Java, NodeJS and Spring Boot.
A desire and ability to code in multiple languages, including an object-oriented language, preferably Java/J2EE, and also Python for GenAI.
Strong oral and written communication skills—and a knack for explaining your decision-making process to non-engineers.
A collaborative, adaptable working style, demonstrated initiative and the ability to prioritize your time and efforts.
A thorough grasp of technology concepts, business operations, design and development tools, system architecture and technical standards.
Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

Collaborating closely with a team of software engineers to deliver complex software solutions.
Designs & Develops maintainable, scalable, defect free source code that meets business requirements and team standards.
Working in an agile environment with business stakeholders, product owners, solutions engineer and other software engineers to review and refine stories and execute on them using excellent engineering practices.
Using your technical knowledge to analyze technical system problems and design and implement effective solutions.
Hands-on development and problem resolution, writing clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
Embracing and modeling engineering excellence and best practices.
Contributing to the development and growth of the team.
Being curious and innovating using new tools and techniques.
Providing periodic production deployments and support.
Optimizing performance for the applications & web.