Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company focused on protecting families and their belongings through innovative insurance, pricing, telematics, and device and identity protection solutions. The Cloud Services Lead Software Engineer architects, designs, implements, tests, and documents digital products using modern technologies, while managing applications in production and driving product success through key performance indicators.
Responsibilities
- Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
- Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
- Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
- 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
- Provides support for software products in user environments
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
Skills
- Architects and designs digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems
- Applies a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software
- Owns and manages running their application in production
- Becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs
- Participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
- Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
- Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
- 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
- Provides support for software products in user environments
- Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
- Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, API Development, API Integration, Back-End Development, Cloud Platform, Code Reviews, Communication, Database Administration, Data Management, Docker Container, Front-End Development, Git, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Leadership, Load Testing, Mentorship, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Monitoring Tools, Problem Solving, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot
- 5 or more years of experience
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
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