At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
Software Engineer Senior Consultant II implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. They own the full stack of software products, developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. They leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. They actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs. Job Summary: In this role, you will be working with groups of extremely talented engineers to revolutionize how new insurance products are defined and managed throughout its business lifecycle. You will be working on the latest forward-looking technology stack that underpins one of the most critical initiatives that Allstate has ever undertaken in its history - ASC (Affordable Simple Connected). We embrace new ideas and fresh perspectives that our engineers bring to the table and work iteratively to quickly prove out concepts while reducing time to market for our customers to realize the dramatic value that we bring to the ecosystem. Our engineers are empowered to be curious while developing new technical and design skills throughout our technology stack. From back-end to front-end, our work is multifaceted, and no two deliverables are alike.
Key Responsibilities: * Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team s backlog
* Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
* Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product
* Participates in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind
* Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack
* Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
* Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building product
* Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
* Provides support for software products in user environments
* Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices
Functional Skills: Required skills/knowledge:
Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
Hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations, Spring AOP, Spring Transactions and Spring Security
Strong on REST API's and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.
Solid knowledge of database design, indexes design, complex queries, explain plans and implementation on any NOSQL databases like Mongo
Creating products within Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Jest
Utilize continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube etc.
Contribute to the code base and ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices.
Desired skills:
Any front end technologies like JavaScript, React, Angular or similar frameworks.
Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar,Fortify and Contrast, or similar
Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or similar tools
Practical cloud knowledge with technologies such as PCF, AWS or other cloud technologies
Education and Experience: * 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
* 3 or more years of experience
* In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Skills
Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is $92,560 - 166,465 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You'll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we've proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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