Software Engineer Associate Manager

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product.

• Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.

• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the digital product manager.

• Leads and participates in daily ceremonies including product team standups.

• Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders.

• Coach and develop a high-performing team, empowering engineers and driving impactful outcomes.

• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team.

• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and technical best practices within the team.

• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Engineering community.

• Evaluates engineer skillsets, sets development plans, and strengthens technical and product knowledge within the team.

Functional Skills:

• Hands on experience with software development and/or configuration and accountability with architecting, designing,implementing applications, including microservices architectures.

• Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring

• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST-docs, Open Api spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.

• Experience with data modeling and familiarity with XML and JSON schema standards

• Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), distributed messaging systems, security best practices, performance analysis and tuning

• Knowledge using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, Artifactory, etc ) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, etc).

• Experience developing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines for distributed apps.

• Experience working in an agile work environment across organizational and geographical boundaries.

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of designing and developing technical solutions with 3+years' experience in mentoring or leading software engineers.(Preferred)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has supervisory duties.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.

#LI-MF1

Skills

Compensation

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.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

For jobs in San Francisco, please click "here" for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click "here" for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster click "here". This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

To view the FMLA poster, click "here". This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.

It is the Company's policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee's ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.