Senior Product Engineer

A Senior Product Engineer (Software/Java) implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. In this role, you will be working to build applications that support Allstate’s Property insurance product lines. Our Product Engineers 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. 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. The internal Allstate job title used for this role is a Software Engineer Senior Consultant II.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Practices test-driven development in writing software and building product.
• Provides input into the architecture and design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way.
• 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 Agile methodology best practices
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• Participates in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog.

Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
• Hands-on experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations,
• Experience on REST API's and familiarity with microservice architecture is required.
• Expertise in database design, indexes design, complex queries, explain plans and implementation on any NOSQL databases like Mongo.
• Experience in Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito
• Experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube etc.
• Contribute to the code base and ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices.
• Performs peer-peer code reviews and team code reviews and give demos on in sprint deliverables.

Desired Skills

• Good to have Experience on using Quality and Security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka
• Practical cloud experience like AWS

Education

• 4-year Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 4 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education&Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.