Liberty IT employs over 500 people who develop a wide range of specialist and enterprise scale applications for our parent company, Liberty Mutual.  Across our two offices in Belfast and Dublin our teams live and breathe innovation, creativity and commitment to excellence - designing and implementing innovative solutions using both existing and emerging technologies. Combine that with our commitment to providing a great place to work for employees and you have the perfect place to start or grow your career.

Associate Software Engineer

As an Associate Software Engineer you will work as part of an agile team to rapidly and effectively deliver great software that adds real value to our customers. You will be challenged. You will have the chance to be creative and have your voice heard. We will offer you a competitive salary, enable you to balance your work and life, and support you through mentoring, coaching and training programs.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver real value by working as part of an agile team to solve real business problems with a customer-centric approach.
• Communicate and collaborate with your team and customers to have exposure to the entire software development lifecycle.
• With guidance from more experienced Engineers, deliver high quality, tested and secure code following the processes and standards within the team.
• Continuously develop your skills and knowledge.
• Use a range of architectures, tools and frameworks, and have the opportunity to experiment and learn new technologies.
• Suggest and implement new ideas and innovations.
• Collaborate with and learn from Engineers across our organization through internal networks, events and communities of practice.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be just as good at working with people as technology. Someone who makes a team better by being part of it.
• Listen and empathize with our customers to provide them with the solutions they really need.  
• Understand the importance and principles of writing clean, quality code.
• Be proactive about continuous improvement and innovation. Someone who doesn’t just dream it but gets it done.   
• Be enthusiastic about learning from others, knowing when to ask for help.
• Share their own experiences and expertise.
• Be interested in technology and actively look for ways to increase their technical knowledge.

Essential Criteria

• A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or an IT related discipline, at a minimum of a 2:2, or be studying for one currently.
• Relevant work or placement experience.
• A proven ability to deliver working code.

Our Recruitment Process – all virtual

Jobs close – 8^th November 2020

Codility Challenge - issued on 9^th November, closes on 15th November 2020

Recruitment centres – 24^th, 25^th, 26^th November 2020

Offers - by 30th November 2020

We have start dates available January, July and September 2021

To note

We are currently working remotely due to Covid-19 and plan to have a hybrid model in the future (once it is safe to do so). For this reason, upon commencement of employment you will be required to be a resident of Ireland or Northern Ireland and be accessible to our Dublin or Belfast offices on a regular basis and at short notice.