Associate Software Engineer

External Description:

Your Graduate Journey Starts Here

The Liberty IT software engineering graduate experience is the perfect way to start your career with us. You’ll be a key member within our core development teams that designs, codes, tests and maintains a range of platforms and services for our Fortune 100 parent company, Liberty Mutual.

You will learn the fundamentals of enterprise engineering, sharpen your programming skills and have clear career progression opportunities.

From the very beginning, you will take on projects targeted for production, which go through our full lifecycle process for development, testing and release in an Agile environment.

You will be working side by side with and learning from our experienced software engineers and through our Buddy Scheme, you’ll receive ongoing feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor in your team.

Through our Social Club and other company initiatives, you’ll also have the opportunity to connect with and have fun with your new colleagues outside of the working day.

What you’ll be doing:

Be part of a team who are working to solve complex business problems by delivering high-quality software that provides an outstanding experience for our customers.

Write clean code in line with the team’s set standards.

With support from more senior team members, own, scope and deliver well-defined tasks or stories. Communicate and update your progress regularly at stand-ups or similar agile events.

Collaborate closely and cooperatively with your technical and non-technical teams to work towards the best solution that maximises value to the customer.

Contribute to a culture of code quality and implement automated, unit and integration testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Apply good security processes such as threat modelling to the code you develop.

Grow your knowledge of architecture, modern engineering principles and design patterns.

Supported by senior team members, seek opportunities to share and celebrate what you’ve learned through internal tech talks, blogging and external events.

Experience and skills we need:

Be on track for or hold a degree in a STEM related discipline and be eligible to start in Sept 2026.

Relevant work placement experience; or experience in developing and building software applications in your personal time.

A proven ability to deliver working code.

What’s on offer

Feel safe and secure whatever life brings, with health insurance (including access to a digital doctor), life assurance and income protection.

Enjoy both today and tomorrow with employee discount schemes, annual bonuses and a competitive pension.

Protect your wellbeing with flexible working and a real work-life balance. Specifically, we have adopted a hybrid remote and in-office working culture, meaning you have ultimate flexibility in your work environment.

Grow yourself, your career and reputation through continuous learning, promotion opportunities and our generous recognition programme.

About Us:

A little background on LIT

Liberty IT is the tech wing of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Bringing peace of mind to all aspects of customer’s lives, every day.

We’re an ideas company. Always. We thrive on engineering excellence and surpass with technical mastery. We build beautifully architected cloud solutions and reliably run high stability systems. We work alongside the best in the business and learn from the finest minds.

Great Place to Work in UK & Ireland 2025

Top 5 Best Tech Workplace

Centre of Excellence in Wellbeing

Fair employment and equal opportunities

If you have a disability, accommodations are available on request when taking part in all aspects of the recruitment, assessment, and selection process.

Now, it’s over to you.