Mercury Insurance is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and direction for multiple agile teams or projects to implement prioritized software product roadmaps, design, develop, and maintain complex software systems, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 7+ years software engineering experience with proven experience in cutting-edge Technologies and/or those used at Mercury.
- 3+ years hands-on experience leading multi-team engineering initiatives for building features in a distributed application systems environment.
- 7 or more years of solid experience with Java.
- 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, maximize reuse, and are 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 multiple sprint teams within the same product area to deliver new or improved features, addressing any impediments in delivering high-quality solutions for items in the product backlog.
- Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders as necessary to ensure overall successful delivery of the intended functionality.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across multiple teams within the same functional area, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within Mercury engineering.
- Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize work, plan, and deliver prioritized roadmap items.
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.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple functional areas to address impediments and deliver desired results.
- Demonstrated leadership skills through mentoring and providing technical guidance to multiple teams within a functional area.
