Product Engineer (Software/Java)

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

Product Engineer (Software/Java) implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. In this role as a Software Engineer Senior Cons II, you will be working to build applications that support Allstate's Property insurance product lines. Our Product Engineers 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. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices

• Practices test-driven development in writing software and building product

• Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way

• Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack

• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and Agile methodology best practices

• Provides support for software products in user environments

• Participates in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind

• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product

• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog

Functional Skills

• 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,

• Experience on REST API's and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.

• Expertise in database design, indexes design, complex queries, explain plans and implementation on …