Senior Software Engineer

Liberty Mutual Insurance • Boston, MA

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About The Position

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. We will not sponsor employment visas. Candidates who will require future sponsorship, including candidates on CPT/OPT/STEMOPT who will require future sponsorship, are not eligible to apply.
We’re building the next-generation personal lines quoting platform and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design solutions, build, and operate AWS-native services that power roughly 80% of all direct channel quoting volume. You’ll work across TypeScript/Node.js and Java API's running on AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda, with DynamoDB and DocumentDB as the primary data stores. The ideal candidate is both technically strong and deeply collaborative, and has working knowledge of the insurance quoting lifecycle.

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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience building applications in AWS native technologies
• Familiarity with Node.js, Java, Typescript, GraphQL, fargate containers and lambdas is beneficial
• Knowledge of the quoting process for personal lines insurance

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure services and APIs for the quoting platform using TypeScript/Node.js and Java on AWS (Fargate & Lambda).
• Build and maintain data models and access patterns in DynamoDB and DocumentDB to support high-performance quoting flows.
• Implement and evolve GraphQL endpoints and integrations (experience helpful).
• Participate in system architecture discussions, drive technical designs, and produce high-quality, documented code.
• Collaborate closely with PO’s and engineers within QP, Distribution and Products to deliver end to end solutions for Distribution quoting applications
• Mentor and coach engineers, contribute to code reviews, and raise engineering standards across the team.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct incident response, and continuously improve reliability and observability.
• Advocate for automation, CI/CD, testing, and secure development practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level