Senior Product Engineer (Software/Java)

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

19h

About The Position

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 The Senior Product Engineer (Software/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 their application in production and are ultimately accountable for the success of their digital products by delivering measurable outcomes. In this role, you will support the Enterprise Payments organization, which is responsible for ensuring Allstate customers can seamlessly process a wide range of payment solutions. The internal Allstate job title used for this role is Software Engineer Senior Consultant II.

Requirements

• 4 years or more of software development experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations, Spring AOP, Spring Transactions and Spring Security.
• Experience with REST API’s including tooling for documentation (Swagger), versioning, service discoverer/registration and testing and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.
• Solid knowledge of database design, indexes design, complex queries, and implementation on any Relational database SQL.
• Strong understanding of software development concepts, object-oriented design principles.
• Experience creating products within Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks such as Junit, Selenium, JBehave & BDD.
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, working with tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Groovy, SonarQube, Gradle, or Maven.
• Experience developing Java-based services and implementing observability using Datadog or equivalent.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and managing microservices.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum or eXtreme Programming (XP) work environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript, React, and/or Angular.
• Experience building and operating high‑traffic, distributed systems that support a large volume of transactions, with strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast, or similar.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or similar tools.
• Practical cloud knowledge with technologies such as PCF, AWS, or other cloud technologies and application programming monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team s backlog.
• 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.
• Collaborates with the team to solve problems the right way.
• Practices 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.
• Contribute to the code base and ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed