Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
SquareTrade, a member of the Allstate family, is a rapidly growing company revolutionizing the $30 billion industry through service innovation and customer satisfaction. Headquartered in San Francisco and London, with expansion in Europe and Asia Pacific, SquareTrade partners with major retailers and carriers globally. The engineering group's leading-edge Agile team is seeking a motivated and energetic Senior Software Engineer to contribute to mission-critical applications. This role offers limitless opportunities for achievement as the company continues to rapidly expand and improve its architecture and solution offerings for millions of customers worldwide. The team operates in a fast-paced Agile XP environment, practicing pair programming and Test-Driven Development (TDD) daily. The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering leads, product and design teams, and other developers to deliver scalable, secure, robust, and high-performing applications, leveraging microservices architecture, distributed technologies, latest frontend frameworks, and sophisticated monitoring tools.
Requirements
- Bachelors in Computer Science or related majors is REQUIRED
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a successful track record
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices framework
- Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writes high-quality, testable code
- Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
- Experience with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github
- Familiarity with build pipeline such as Jenkins
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, and on-prem systems
- Familiarity with web related technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, CSS
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps practices
- Experience in the warranty, insurance, fintech, or e-commerce domains
Responsibilities
- Participates in iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input
- Designs, develops, and maintains secure, scalable, and high-performance microservices and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, ElastiCache)
- Performs continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines on AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Monitors in production and improves system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Adopts XP methodology and practices paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) daily
- Participates in daily standups, code reviews and retrospectives
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage with network optionality and the ability to contribute to a savings account (HSA or FSA)
- Up to 4% company match into 401(k) and contributions into your company-sponsored pension
- $75/month budget to help prioritize your physical wellbeing
- $80/month stipend to subsidize connectivity costs
- Mental health resources including free 1:1 therapy, coaching sessions and digital resources
- Supportive leave policies
- Flexible Time Off Policy in addition to 9 Company Holidays
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year to further your personal educational advancement desires
- Hybrid work arrangements with regular investment in gatherings/offsites to spend time together as team
- Various corporate perks and discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
