Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Tempe, Arizona
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Sep 29, 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 can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll 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.
The Role
CompoZed is an Allstate developed software delivery methodology with Agile Scrum at its epicenter. In this role, the CompoZed Software Engineer serves as a member of a product team. They practice and are the champions of the CompoZed methodology while possessing a product mindset working within the product team. This is a great opportunity to join Allstate's Product Management Platform team and work on technology critical to core Allstate operations.
CompoZed Software Engineers develop applications following 12-factor principles to build out products through continual enhancements through a full stack of software products; developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. He/she leverages test driven development, CI/CD, and Allstate developed tools and frameworks to ensure of the timely delivery of high quality products. He/she actively participates in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the most appropriate technology and relevant design is chosen to meet user needs with maintainability and reusability.
Responsibilities
- Possess the technical capabilities to quickly integrate with a CompoZed team and become familiar with the technical working environment with minimal supervision
- Evaluate and make recommendations on all technical aspects of the software delivery lifecycle to achieve the desired delivery velocity with high quality outcomes in a self-directed and self-managed manner
- Adhere to and promote principles of 12 factor apps, including key areas of concern such as availability, scalability, maintainability and security
- Drive and own all phases of software engineering work from inception and throughout the CI/CD lifecycle
- Accountable for making sound technical decisions across multiple problem dimensions and be able to articulate the decision throughout the evaluation process
- Recognize, evolve and adapt technical approaches to problem solving as the business and computing landscape changes
- Maintain positive outlook in handling continuous change and bring a sense of urgency in driving positive change at Allstate
- Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
- 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
- Participate in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind
Job Qualifications
- A college degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or STEM field, including a solid understanding of Computer Science and Software Engineering fundamentals
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in structured team settings
- Solid experience in Java and similar OOP languages along with the following: Spring, Javascript, AngularJS or ReactJS, Relational and NoSQL Databases
- Strong understanding and effective implementation experience of design patterns, data structures, data persistence, UI frameworks, software and object-oriented design principles
- Experience in developing software in different programming languages and across various paradigms, and demonstrated ability to quickly evaluate and learn unfamiliar new programming languages
- Possess understanding and experience on approaches and tools for automated testing and monitoring
- Solid understanding on agile development fundamentals along with key development and productivity tools associated with this methodology
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s 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, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
It is the policy of Allstate to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, disability, and citizenship status as a veteran with a disability or veteran of the Vietnam Era.
Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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