About the position
Are you seeking the excitement of joining a team that's leading with tech to 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 digital solutions that fulfill our promise to provide peace of mind for our customers. As the Solutions Engineer for this specific posting, you'll be responsible for serving an experienced team as their senior technical lead and lead collaborative partner of the team's Architect and Engineering Manager. You will drive, structure, and facilitate technical decision making to shape actionable technical direction for the team from our Architectural Strategy and long term business plans. You will lead teams in creating robust middleware solutions, including APIs (GraphQL and REST), that guarantee high performance, reliability, and fault tolerance between the Platform APIs and the front-end experiences. This team and the majority of technical departments at Liberty Mutual operate in an agile environment. We thrive on the speed and creative energy of a small tech outfit with the confidence that the stability and comprehensive benefits of a Fortune 100 company provides.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical lead for the team.
- Drive, structure, and facilitate technical decision making.
- Shape actionable technical direction based on Architectural Strategy and long term business plans.
- Lead teams in creating robust middleware solutions, including APIs (GraphQL and REST).
- Ensure high performance, reliability, and fault tolerance between Platform APIs and front-end experiences.
- Promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Coach others on quality practices for engineering excellence.
- Lead teams in developing fluency in quality practices recognized in the industry.
Requirements
- 10+ years of related software engineering experience; 5 years at a Principal or higher engineer position preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of software architecture, contemporary frameworks, and emerging technologies.
- A comprehensive understanding of agile environments.
- A history of practicing DevOps, CI/CD and building cloud-based applications.
- A strong background in business operations and strategies, including knowledge of global business, technology trends and the financial services industry.
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to identify patterns and problems across teams and deliver effective solutions.
- Openness and adaptability to respond to fast-moving circumstances.
- A design thinking and test-driven development mindset.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and an aptitude for working in teams.
- Solid negotiation, facilitation, consensus building and influencing capabilities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities.
- Support for a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for community and engagement.
