Manager, Software Engineering -Mobile

Company: Liberty Mutual
Location: Somerville
Posted on: May 10, 2022

Job Description:

At Liberty Mutual, our purpose is to help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. That's why we provide an environment focused on openness, inclusion, trust and respect. Here, you'll discover our expansive range of roles, and a workplace where we aim to help turn your passion into a rewarding profession. Liberty Mutual has proudly been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by Great Place to Work US for the past several years. We were also selected as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT" onIDG's Insider Pro and Computerworld's 2020 list. For many years running, we have been named by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Women and one of America's Best Employers for New Graduates-as well as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity. To learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion please visit: We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. 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. Job introduction: The Direct Service Mobile Team at Liberty Mutual is building new features in the personal insurance flagship applications, allowing people to quickly and seamlessly manage their insurance experience. We are looking for talented leaders with mobile app experience to join us in enhancing our customer facing mobile applications. These are high visibility products that are growing every day as customers are becoming more familiar with and comfortable using mobile to service their insurance products while on their device of choice. You value people and relationships as much as technology. You embrace simple, efficient user experiences and know that technology done correctly can make a significant impact with its users; that engineering done properly provides a rewarding experience to those developing it. If you're a curious learner who has a passion for getting things done, thrives in an environment of servant leadership, and has a wealth of Agile know-how, and finds these types of problems interesting, we want you to join our tech team! As an experienced Software Engineering Manager, you will bring direct coaching, an agile/lean mindset and mastery of XP practices to your dedicated teams. You view cloud native solutions on AWS as a competitive advantage, but can make tough tradeoffs as you negotiate priorities with collaborating product owners. You will lead by creating a shared vision, empowering and serving engineers by removing obstacles and helping them grow. You will constantly energize and enable your teams to rapidly and reliably deliver business value by engaging customers, continuously learning, and adapting allowing teams to rapidly pivot. Most importantly, you'll be engaged in meaningful work for an organization that is committed to "helping people live safer, more secure lives" every day. Qualifications:

• 3 years in a leadership role preferred.
• Experience leading teams of 10+ software developers in a transactional Agile development environment
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in iOS/ Android (Swift, Kotlin, etc.,)
• Experience around the release lifecycle specific to mobile apps including app store management and automation
• Manage, motivate, and mentor a geographically distributed team of full time engineers and offshore contractors, comprising multiple scrum teams, to maximize delivery velocity and quality
• Excitement and experience around front-end technologies, both web and mobile
• Develops and communicates unit vision, strategies, critical success factors
  Hires and manages team of people; coaches, counsels, and develops team members.
• Defines individual performance objectives and development plans and ensures alignment with organizational objectives.
• Ensures system, technical, and product architectures are aligned with business objectives.
• Nice to haves
  React at Scale on Web or Native
  Worked as part of a team that owned a consumer app in the app store
  Experience writing comprehensive unit, UI, and end to end testing applicable for native applications (Espresso, Robotium, Appium, etc)
  Experience architecting and developing scalable Android applications

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