Senior Software Engineer

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

Allstate Financial Services helps Allstate customers build holistic financial wellbeing for their families with life, retirement and investment solutions to realize their hopes and dreams. By making our sales force more efficient with the help of data driven decision making.

Allstate Financial Services offers a robust portfolio of solutions to help customers build and protect their financial futures. We deliver a seamless customer experience with innovative processes and technologies through a network of best-in-class financial professionals and carriers.

We demonstrate our core values through integrity, accountability, resilience, and perseverance. We are industry leading financial experts who put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We value each other. We seek feedback and take appropriate action. Our collective success is achieved through collaborating across all areas of responsibility within AFS and Allstate, prioritizing the customer experience.

• Improve the Customer Experience: Provide an exceptional customer experience at every touchpoint.
• Expand & Enhance Distribution: Promote top line growth, increase producer retention, and increase sales.
• Optimize Systems, Technology and Processes: Streamline and utilize standard processes to improve ease of doing business

The Role:
The Software Engineer Lead Consultant designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They develop and support their application in lower environments and support production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer Lead Consultant plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
• Participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product.
• Participates in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Allstate engineering community

Functional Skills:

• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including microservices architectures and 12-factor principles.
• 5 years of developing and implementing microservices at scale, preferably in Java & Spring boot.
• Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring
• Strong understanding of design patterns, object-oriented principles, and a desire to continuously improve code.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, REST principles, databases, and security best practices.
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, open-air spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, caching), messaging (Kafka) and Kubernetes development, implementation, and optimization
• Actual experience working in an Extreme Programming (XP) or agile environment; experienced working in
• Experience/Knowledge with Cloud / AWS / Kubernetes a plus. 

Education & Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
•  5 or more years of experience (Preferred

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Notes:
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Skills

Amazon S3, AWS Devops, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), CI/CD, Java, Java Spring, Kubernetes, Linux, Spring Boot

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $95,700.00 - 170,925.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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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