Software Engineer - Expert
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 13, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Allstate is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer Expert to join our dynamic team of java developers in Northbrook, IL to serve as anchor/technical lead for the Life Sales Platform (LSP). LSP is the integration layer that allows Allstate and 3rd party applications to communicate with Life systems. LSP is a java-based microservice architecture, open API platform supporting Life and Property & Casualty Pre-Sales and Sales Products. The team practices agile scrum methodologies and adheres to principles put forth by the lean startup and lean enterprise movements. The team puts the system user at the center of everything they do; ensuring that users receive the most value out of the products being developed. They architect and design their own systems to deliver their products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They are highly focused on test driven development, continuous delivery and innovation. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving the KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Participates in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design
- Leads and 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
- Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product
- Leads 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 multiple business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
- Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test driven development in writing software and building products and enhancements
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
Qualifications/Ability/Experience
- Bachelors or Masters/MBA degree in a field such as Computer Science or Data Architecture
- 10+ years of developing and implementing systems at scale.
- Experience Leading Design and Building Microservice Architecture
- Experience Leading Design, Building and Documenting Open API Platforms
- Strong Technical Leadership with the ability to mentor other developers.
- Strong experience in application design, design patterns and performance tuning.
- Be productive in a fast-paced environment and work well with a diverse team of technical SMEs
- Ability to clearly write technical specifications.
- Java/J2EE software development including Spring Framework using Annotation, JPA2, and Hibernate frameworks
- Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
- Must be able to clearly explain frameworks concepts and design patterns.
- Strong web services development experience using Spring, Spring-Boot, REST Web Services, JSON. Experience on SOAP and XML is plus.
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate 4+)
- Strong insight of Java, J2EE internals and Hibernate
- Ability to lead and earn the respect of fellow developers
Specific Technology Skills
- Java Version 1.8, Java Core and Collections, J2EE internals (Annotations, Classloading, Concurrency, Generics, Lamda, Memory Management, Transaction management etc), JAXP and JAXB, Reflections
- Spring Framework 4.x - Modules, Core - IOC, AOP, Transaction Management, Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring ORM, JPA and Hibernate, Spring Web and JMS
- Web Services: Spring REST / JSON and SOAP XML; Micro Service: CRUD Pattern, Open API Standard, OAuth, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere 9.x IHS and Application Servers
- Hibernate 5.x, JPA Persistence, Query Languages - Criteria, Hql and Named Queries, Caching with EhCacheOracle 12c (JSON Document Storage) - Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA)Microsoft SQL Server
- Developer Tools: Idea IntelliJ, SOAP UI or Post Man, SQL Developer, JIRA, Confluence, GITHub, Gradle, Jenkins, Junit, Mockito, PowerMock
- Front End (Optional): HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React JS, AngularJS, Node.js, NPM and Bootstrap
- Network & Security: Load Balancing, TCP/IP, Cloud Based Architecture Security Concerns
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 thats 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, youll 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.
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- https://www.allstate.com/
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