Software Engineer - Senior Consultant II

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

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About The Position

Software Engineer Senior Consultant II implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. They own the full stack of software products, developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. They leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. They actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs.

Requirements

• Great communicator
• Expert in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools)
• Microsoft Stacks knowledge and hands-on experience
• Azure Devops
• AWS Application Integration
• MS Dot Net Core (C#)
• JavaScript
• MS SQL Server
• Azure Cosmos DB
• MongoDB
• Influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality.
• Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members.
• Design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools.
• Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management in partnership with Managing Engineer.
• IT Communication
• Messaging Systems
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Azure Communication Services
• Microsoft Azure Domain Name System (DNS)
• Programming Languages

Nice To Haves

• Identifies opportunities to pivot on stories or technical approach to achieve intended outcomes faster.
• Holds decision rights on timing for what the engineers need to work on and works in partnership with Managing Engineer on ongoing prioritization.
• Influences decisions on Managing Engineering.
• Drives breaking work down for digital product inception ceremonies, ensuring technical approach and meaningful iterations align to targeted outcomes.
• Demonstrates a solid understanding and application of enterprise standards, tools and patterns.
• Has a deep understanding of integration points across upstream and downstream systems.
• Responsible for coaching Product Engineers on systems thinking and design principles.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• 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 iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog.

Benefits

• Total compensation for this role is comprised of several factors, including the base compensation outlined above, plus incentive pay (i.e., commission, bonus, etc.) as applicable for the role.
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What This Job Offers

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