Data Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts
Job ID: R8449
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
“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
Our Enterprise Data Analytics Platform (EDAP) is designed to explore and extract insights that our customers depend upon. Being the primary source for analytics, our customers both internal and external depend upon us to provide accurate, real-time, and fault tolerant solutions to their ever-growing data needs. The Enterprise Data Analytics Platform builds highly performant scalable analytics solutions varying from data storage systems to computation and serving solutions. We utilize a plethora of open source and industry accepted technologies for our big data problems such as Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Amazon Web services, and Apache Kafka.
We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer with an eye for building and optimizing distributed systems to join our team. From data ingestion, processing and storage, to serving and scale, we work closely with other engineers and product management to build consistent and highly available systems that tackle real world data and scale problems.
This role is scoped as an individual contributor.
Responsibilities:
• Focus on the development of cloud computing infrastructure, and help build, distribute, scale and optimize these technologies
• Designs and implements cloud scale distributed data-focused Data Analytics Platform, services and frameworks including solutions to address high-volume and complex data collection, processing, transformation and reporting for analytical purposes
• Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing
• Develop scalable, robust, and highly available services related to our data platform
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance
• Owns technical aspects of software development and identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
• Identifies continuous improvements for service availability
• Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies and processes to ensure that the services that the team provides achieve the highest standards of quality and performance
• Debugs and troubleshoots problems in data flow, lineage, transformation and other stages of the ETL pipelines.
• Collaborates with other peer organizations (e.g., Business Analyst, Data Modeler, QA, SRE, technical support, etc.) to prevent and resolve technical issues and provide technical guidance.
• Work in Agile development environment. Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features, and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5 years of meaningful experience
- A strong level of curiosity paired with the ability to get things done.
- Strong algorithms, data structures, and coding background.
- Experience with software engineering standard methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design document)
- Java or Scala or other programming experience
- Strong in SQL
- Experience building products using 1 of the following distributed technologies:
- ** Relational Stores (i.e Postgres or MySQL or Oracle)
- ** Columnar or NoSQL Stores (i.e Vertica or Redshift or Cassandra or DynamoDB)
- ** Distributed Processing Engines (i.e Apache Spark or Apache Storm or Celery)
- ** Distributed Queues (i.e Apache Kafka or Kinesis or RabbitMQ)
- Has worked with systems processing large amounts of data
- Has worked with partner data scientist, data analysts and other domain experts to understand their needs and be able to develop solutions
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud platform technologies
- Authorized to work in the United States with or without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred
- 8 years of meaningful development, experience is preferred
- Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies.
- Ability to take proactive, problem-solving/troubleshooting approach to identifying the root cause of issues and solving problems
- Working with Data Warehousing is a plus
- Experience with source control systems, Git preferred
- Must be able to quickly grasp the platform/application overarching design and ensure development is executed in accordance with the present design
- Ability to drive change through persuasion and consensus
- Experience in Financial/Insurance industrial
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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.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $131,100.00-$172,000.00
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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.
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
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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.
Where we work
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Springfield, MA
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