Job details
Salary $81,900 - $130,000 a year
Full job description
The world isn’t standing still, and neither is allstateWe’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needsThat’s why now is an exciting time to join our teamYou’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.
You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramountWe empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and liveOur people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.
Everything we do at allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreamsFor more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they faceWe acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving lawsWe help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowermentWe’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protectionWe are the good handsWe don’t follow the trendsWe set them.
Job summary
The software engineer is part of agile teams who own the inception, development and full lifecycle of digital productsThe team practices methodologies and adheres to principles put forth by the lean startup and lean enterprise movementsThe team puts the system user at the center of everything they do; ensuring that users receive the most value out of the products being developed.
The software engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systemsThey develop test driven code all day and every dayThey apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of softwareThey own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving the kpis.
The software engineer lead consultant serves as a member of a product teamThey practice and are the champions of agile delivery utilizing continuous integration & deployment practices.
Software engineer lead consultant designs and implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancementsHe/she owns the full stack of software products; developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend servicesHe/she leverages test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of productsHe/she has experience with deployment pipeline scripting and likely has experience scripting not only the software deployment but also cloud-based infrastructure deployment via pipeline scripting.
He/she actively participates in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needsHe/she coaches other team members, creating an environment of continuous learning, and constantly challenging and stretching the knowledge of the team.
Key responsibilities
Participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders with the customer needs and wants in mind
Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a lead advocate of one or more technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
Participates in the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product; actively helps the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems,
Coaches the team in writing software and building products
Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices likely including cloud-based infrastructure deployment
Provides support for software products in user environments
Leads and participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the engineering community.
Knowledge/skills/abilities/experience
A college degree or equivalent experience in computer science or similar field, including a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
5+ years of developing and implementing systems at scale
Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object oriented design principles
Strong understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, networking, databases, security, and analytics
Experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages
Experience and knowledge in developing rest apis including tooling for documentation (swagger, rest-docs, openapi 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, nosql, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
Experience in responsive web front end / single page application development using modular javascript including apps targeted for mobile devices or native mobile languages (objective-c, swift, android java)
Hands on experience on modern javascript tools such as webpack, babel, eslint, gulp, npm, bower, browserify, grunt and similar technologies
Experience with deployment pipeline scripting for cloud-environments such as amazon web services
Actual experience developing continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines for distributed apps
Knowledge and experience on approaches and tools for automated testing and monitoring
Recent experience working in an extreme programming (xp) or agile environment
Experience in test driven development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like junit, mockito, jasmine, protractor, cucumber, and other like technologies
Able to learn new technologies, and teach other members of the team/s
Compensation data
Salary range is $$81,900 to $$130,000Salary commensurate with experience.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good workGood lifeGood hands®.
As a fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginningOur total rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k)Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life - including a generous paid time off policyFor a full description of allstate’s benefits, visit allstate.jobs/benefits/
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