Senior Software Engineer

This Job•Portsmouth, NH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join our Software Delivery organization and help evolve the internal platforms and integrations that power software delivery across Liberty Mutual. In this role, you’ll build backend services, APIs, automations, and event-driven systems that enhance the developer experience and extend our engineering ecosystem. This is a hybrid role requiring two days in the office a week in one of our five tech hubs (Boston, Portsmouth, Plano, Indianapolis, or Columbus Only open to U.S. based employees The Platform Ecosystems team is responsible for the core software delivery platforms and integrations that thousands of engineers rely on every day across Liberty Mutual. We build, operate, and evolve the developer tooling ecosystem that powers software delivery at enterprise scale. The team supports a large-scale eventing platform responsible for processing approximately 1.7 million daily events that enable downstream engineering and operational workflows. This role offers the opportunity to influence how thousands of engineers build, ship, and operate software across the enterprise.

Requirements

A minimum of five years of software engineering experience
A background in business operations and strategies, with a focus on business IT
A history of translating client requirements into technical designs
Agile engineering capabilities and a design-thinking mindset
Collaboration, adaptability, flexibility and the ability to manage time and prioritize work with a globally distributed development team
Strong oral and written communication skills - and a knack for explaining your decision-making process to non-engineers
A thorough grasp of IT concepts, business operations, design and development tools, system architecture and technical standards, shared software concepts and layered solutions and designs
Proficiency in software engineering languages and tools, including Java and RESTful services, spanning horizontal and vertical packages
An understanding of how modifications affect different parts of a system and an ability to explain your decision-making process to non-engineers
A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Platform Services Engineering: Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and automation that power and extend the internal software delivery platform.
Core Platform Ownership: Engineer and enhance integrations, automation, access patterns, and operation of core software delivery SaaS platforms.
Event-Driven Workflows: Design and support event-driven workflows using AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, and Kafka.
Integration & Automation: Develop integrations, wrapper APIs, and service layers that extend vendor tooling and reduce manual operational effort.
Platform Reliability: Ensure the reliability, observability, and scalability of platform services through proactive design and operational excellence.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner across engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into delivery workflows and improve the overall developer experience.