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Job Description

Allstate is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer Expert to join a dynamic, global team and serve as anchor/technical lead. The teams goal is to build a product that supports Consumer and Agency Servicing of Allstate life insurance products. The team engineers software and drives quality by leveraging test-driven development with continuous integration & continuous delivery.

Job Responsibilities

• Participates in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design
• Help define strategic direction and map out tracks of work to live into short-term and long-term needs
• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product including recovery, security, and audit
• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Identify risk and issues and possible mitigation strategies.
• 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 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 the Life Consumer and Agency Servicing domain and as 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 building prototypes, choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
• Coaches the team (onshore & offshore) and leads daily practices of programming and test driven development in writing software and building products and enhancements
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Life Consumer and Agency Servicing team

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters/MBA degree in a field such as Computer Science or Data Architecture
• 10+ years of developing and implementing systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object oriented design principles
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, networking, databases, security, and analytics
• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems
• Experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience in backend development design, implementation, and optimization
• Experience developing continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines for distributed apps
• Knowledge and advanced experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TravisCI, Concourse, Bamboo, GoCD).
• Knowledge and experience on approaches and tools for automated testing (including performance testing) and monitoring
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Able to lead agile teams and lead collaboration across teams; serving as an anchor or technical lead for complex distributed systems spanning multiple apps, services, APIs, and datastores
• Experience and familiarity with open source software
• Able to learn new technologies, and teach other members of the team/s
• Able to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries

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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