Mercury Insurance is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain complex software systems, lead agile teams, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years software programming experience with 2+ years experience in Technologies used at Mercury, more than one years experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
- 5 or more years of solid experience with Java.
- 1 to 2 years’ experience in mentoring and leading team members to deliver quality implementations into production environment.
- Implementation knowledge of agentic AI using frameworks or protocols (e.g., LangGraph, OpenAI Agent SDK, or managed cloud providers implementations).
- Familiarity and knowledge of how to use RAG and prompt engineering to get good results from AI models.
- Exposure to cloud services from major providers like AWS, Google, or Azure that relate to AI.
- Proficient in programming in one or more industry-standard languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript).
Responsibilities
- Write high-quality code for complex scenarios with good test coverage.
- Review and translate product requirements into robust designs to ensure high-quality distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, reusable, fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable.
- Lead design and code reviews of multiple applications to ensure best practices, adherence to Mercury standards, and high quality.
- Lead the sprint team to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments to delivering high-quality solutions in the sprint backlog.
- Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of intended functionality.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within Mercury engineering.
- Experienced in designing and implementing high-quality distributed application systems that are modular, configurable, maximize reuse, and are fast, effective, user-friendly, secure, compliant, scalable, and maintainable.
Other
- Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
- Efficiency in operational activities such as inter-team communications, dependency management, application rollout planning etc.
- Excellent communication abilities.
- Strong ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders to address impediments and deliver desired results.
