Allstate Insurance Company
Senior Product Engineer (React/Java)
Allstate Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
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 DescriptionJoin our dynamic team as a Senior Product Engineer (React/Java) driving the development of cutting-edge Consumer Engagement Management Ecosystem Software within the Affordable Simple Connected products at Allstate. In this Agile environment, you'll own the end-to-end development of backend services, with occasional involvement in frontend components. Your role is pivotal in ensuring product agility, quality, and user satisfaction. As a key decision-maker, you'll champion simplicity in technology and design choices.
The Senior Product Engineer (React/Java) architects and 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 own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs
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
Functional Skills:Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
3 plus years of hands-on software development experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot. Transactions and Spring Security
Strong on REST API's including tooling for documentation (Swagger), versioning, service discoverer/registration and testing and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.
Strong knowledge of front-end technologies like JavaScript, React, and/or Angular.
Utilize continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Groovy, SonarQube, Gradle, Maven, etc.
Utilize containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and managing microservices.
Contribute to the code base and ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices.
Ability to mentor/coach team members
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum
Desired skills:Creating products within Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks such as Junit, Selenium, JBehave & BDD.
Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast, or similar. Practical cloud knowledge with technologies such as AWS, or other cloud technologies and application programming monitoring tools.
Understanding of No SQL such as MongoEducation and Experience:
4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Supervisory Responsibilities:This job does not have supervisory duties.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:* No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.#LI-MF1SkillsAgile Methodology, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, GitHub, Java, JavaScript, React.js, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security
CompensationCompensation offered for this role is $85,600.00 - 152,650.00 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.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 ProgramsTo 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.
The Senior Product Engineer (React/Java) architects and 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 own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs
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
Functional Skills:Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
3 plus years of hands-on software development experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot. Transactions and Spring Security
Strong on REST API's including tooling for documentation (Swagger), versioning, service discoverer/registration and testing and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.
Strong knowledge of front-end technologies like JavaScript, React, and/or Angular.
Utilize continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Groovy, SonarQube, Gradle, Maven, etc.
Utilize containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and managing microservices.
Contribute to the code base and ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices.
Ability to mentor/coach team members
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum
Desired skills:Creating products within Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks such as Junit, Selenium, JBehave & BDD.
Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast, or similar. Practical cloud knowledge with technologies such as AWS, or other cloud technologies and application programming monitoring tools.
Understanding of No SQL such as MongoEducation and Experience:
4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Supervisory Responsibilities:This job does not have supervisory duties.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:* No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.#LI-MF1SkillsAgile Methodology, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, GitHub, Java, JavaScript, React.js, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security
CompensationCompensation offered for this role is $85,600.00 - 152,650.00 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.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 ProgramsTo 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.