Software Engineer Lead Consultant

Allstate•McCullom Lake, IL

About The Position

The Product Engineer 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. Product Engineers at Allstate are considered Software Engineers.

Requirements

Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring boot, including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, OpenAPI spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.
Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including MicroServices architectures.
Experience working with Generative AI APIs and/or open-source models.
Experience with AI Agents, LLM orchestration, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.
Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (MongoDB, caching) and Kafka messaging.
Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc ) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools .
Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model.
Experience with Python is a plus.
Experience with the test driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage.
Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks

Nice To Haves

experience using API gateways a plus
Experience with Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

Participate 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.
Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs
Participate in performance improvements and tech review meetings
Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders.
Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations.
Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
Provides support for software products in user environments.

Benefits

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
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