Software Engineer Lead

Company: Allstate
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: September 16, 2020

Job Description:

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Description

The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why now is an exciting time to join our team. As a leader in a corporation with 83,000 employees and agency force members, you'll have a hand in transforming not only Allstate but a dynamic industry. You'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 paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our 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 dreams. For 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 face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We've been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don't follow the trends. We set them.

Job Description Are you passionate about creating amazing experiences for developers?

Allstate's Systems Engineering group is focused on creating products for our global developer community by designing and delivering frictionless creator experiences helping product teams move at the speed of ideas.

We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer Lead Consultant to join our product suite. Our teams are focused on creating software for other engineers so they can focus on business solutions. We bring a seamless, frictionless experience and automate complex setup tasks into simple to use capabilities. This helps product teams start iterating at the speed of their ideas!

As a Software Engineer Lead Consultant, you will contribute to developer innovation for the company. This extends from improving the experience of existing products to developing new products for the unit along with the strategic product vision. The Software Engineer Lead Consultant serves as a member of a product team. You will practice and champion the Agile delivery utilizing Continuous Integration & Deployment practices. You will leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. You will actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs. You will coach 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.

Job Qualifications 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, including but not limited to JavaScript, Java (Spring), Python and Golang

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, npm 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

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary - but that's just the beginning. Our 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 policy.

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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.

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Job Information

Job ID: 54668385

Location:

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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