Java Software Engineer

AllstateIllinois, United Stateslast year

The Software Engineer Manager 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 become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer Manager plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature. The Software Engineer Manager selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations, and evaluates medium to large teams. Additionally, they confer with and advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget, and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design
Familiarity developing software using TIBCO suite of tools like: Business Works and Business Events
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
Serves as an expert on multiple business domains 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
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 department.

Functional Skills

Hands-on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including microservices architectures and 12-factor principles
Experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages, preferably JavaScript, Java (Spring), Python.
Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, openapi spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus
Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
Knowledge and advanced experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, artifactory, etc) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TravisCI, Concourse, Bamboo, GoCD).
Actual experience working in an eXtreme Programming (XP) or agile environment; experienced working in a paired programming/engineering model
Experience in Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like junit, mockito, jasmine, protractor, cucumber, and other like technologies

Education and Experience

4-year bachelor’s degree (Preferred)
10 years of experience in software development (Preferred)
In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

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Is the Java Software Engineer position at Allstate remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Java Software Engineer job posted?: This listing was posted on May 6, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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