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Software Engineer

Boston, Massachusetts

Thank you to our employees for voting us one of the top places to work in Massachusetts for five consecutive years!

Overview

A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.

Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.

We invite you to explore the possibilities.

What our employees say

Roger Crandall
Roger CrandallCEO
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Product and Project Managers, and enterprise stakeholders to deliver innovative, data-driven systems aimed at transforming the insurance industry
  • May be responsible for any of the following: design, develop, implement, test, document, and operate systems and/or web applications
  • Mentor and peer review the work of more junior software engineers
  • Collaborate with internal business partners and the team to analyze and decompose complex application features into simpler stories for planning and execution
  • Provide technical leadership on medium and large projects
  • Build complex systems integrating appropriate technologies as needed, including the extract, transform, load and processing of data as well as creation, processing, and consumption of RESTful API endpoints
  • Act as technical SMEs in multiple areas/technologies across the organization
  • Define realistic timeframes to assigned tasks and provides estimation guidelines across teams
  • Drive value and build to continuously improve the quality of deliverables
  • Contribute to software engineering best practices for design, coding standards, performance, security, delivery, maintainability and culture
  • Lead problem solving with employees to come up with solutions that follow best practices and align with Software Engineering guidelines and strategies
  • Act as first point of contact for Software Engineers regarding solutions for work products
  • Collaborate with Product Management to ensure work is prioritized, organized and facilitated

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of building complex software systems (Data pipelines, services, backends, frontends)
  • 3+ years working with data and relevant computation frameworks and system
  • 3+ years using Python programming language
  • 2+ years using Python Django
  • 3+ years using Web application development (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
  • 2+ years using React/Redux
  • Experience writing complex SQL queries for a RDBMS
  • Experience with AWS Stack (S3, EC2, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc)
  • Knowledge of software design patterns
  • Experience collaborating with a team of engineers with varying skillsets
  • Experience with Agile software engineering principles and methodologies
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new concepts, methods, and technologies
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with SASS, TypeScript and Webpack is a plus
  • Experience with Numpy/Pandas is a plus
  • Experience in data modeling and database design
  • Experience with building a Jenkins pipeline
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with Redis

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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.

Hiring Process

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  • Screen

    After your application has been reviewed, if you meet the qualifications for the role, a recruiter will reach out to you to start a conversation.

  • Interview

    If you are invited for an interview, you will be scheduled to meet with the hiring manager and hiring team. Coordinating calendars for interview schedules can take time, so your patience and flexibility is appreciated.

  • Offer

    If you are extended an offer to join MassMutual and accept, your start will be contingent upon a satisfactory background check.

  • Hire

    If you accept the offer, we will be so excited to welcome you to the MassMutual community!

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Award-Winning Culture

MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.

We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.

At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.

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Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)

There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.

Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here

  • In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
  • Medical and dental insurance
  • Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
  • Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
  • Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
  • Personalized mental health solutions
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
  • Competitive salary and bonuses
  • 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
  • Educational assistance program
  • Childcare support
  • Financial counseling
  • Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
  • Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
  • Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
  • Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
  • Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
  • Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
  • Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
  • Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
  • Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses

Why MassMutual?

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Service Management Consultant
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Head of Experience Journey Mapping

How we work

MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.

   

  

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Where we work

Springfield Office

1295 State Street,
Springfield, MA

Boston Office

10 Fan Pier Blvd,
Boston, MA

New York Office

2 Park Ave,
New York, NY

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