Front End Software Developer, Solaria Labs

Advance your Career at Solaria Labs, a Liberty Mutual Endeavor The insurance industry is being transformed: self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, the Sharing Economy, and an ever-changing set of start-up competitors are all major contributors to the disruption of current business models. In response, Liberty Mutual has established Solaria Labs, an innovation center dedicated to testing new ideas, turning those ideas into products, and launching new companies. The Labs is also exploring emerging technologies like blockchain and machine learning: evaluating their current state and building products for the insurance industry and beyond. Liberty Mutual’s innovation efforts are gathering quite the buzz in Boston, having been named one of BostInno’s 50 on Fire and having been featured in the Boston Globe and TechCrunch. Solaria Labs is part of a community of innovation, partnering and co-developing with startups, several universities like MIT, and Smart Cities like Chicago and Singapore. We are looking for innovators who are passionate about making an impact, are entrepreneurial, and are willing to test and learn. Does building a new future for a Fortune 100 company like Liberty Mutual excite you? If so, join our team! As a Front End Developer in Solaria Labs U.S., you will design and implement web applications with UX/UI designers and full stack software developers. This includes responsibilities for system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. The role includes contributing to defining best practices for the Labs, including identifying development frameworks, coding standards, test procedures, and prototype documentation. In this role you would:

Develop and demonstrate disruptive and transformational products as part of an agile development team. Solve problems together with peer developers, product owners and scrum masters to truly satisfy prospective and existing customers.

Develop system and component designs, experimenting with newer technologies and tools which better enable your teams.

Develop maintainable/scalable, effective, defect free source code that meets business requirements and team standards

Conducts unit test case development, including test scripts

Works within project team to lead iterative development that delivers a high quality product.

Plans work out appropriately, effectively communicate and responds to escalations/inquiries.

Identify and implements appropriate continuous improvement opportunities.

Apply Design Thinking to improve the quality of the final product

Contribute to a development ecosystem that fosters maintainable/scalable, effective, and defect free source code that meets business requirements and team standards

Mentor junior staff from Solaria Labs and other Liberty Mutual rotational teams

This role might be for you if you have:
Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience.

Experience developing cloud-hosted, responsive, single page web applications using JavaScript, Java, HTML5, CSS3

Able to integrate with and managing APIs exposing microservices (REST, SOAP) including development and support of Java/JavaScript services

Familiar with software development best practices, including continuous build/integration frameworks, test tools, source code control systems, dependency management tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, Mocha/Karma, etc).

Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean Startup, XP) and cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, Business Analysts)

Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.

Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with significant uncertainty, applying test and learn with rapid iterations to converge on a solution.

Must possess strong analytical, strategic, project management, decision-making and problem-solving skills. Strong collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills required.

We strongly believe that a great job should keep you happy both at work—and in life. That’s why we offer:

Workplace Flexibility

Wellness Perks

Collaborative workspaces

Sit/stand desks

Career development, programs and classes

Diversity & Inclusion programs

Philanthropic giving and volunteer opportunities

Commuter Benefits

Adoption Assistance

College Savings Plan

Education reimbursement

Annual Hackathon

Liberty Mutual was named as a ‘2016 Great Place to Work’ by Great Place to Work US.

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Job:
Technology

Primary Location: United States-Massachusetts-Boston

Schedule: Full-time

Salary: $100,401-$128,800

Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree (±16 years)

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time