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 products and services. The Software Engineer Manager leads the architecture, design, implementation, delivery, and production operation of complex digital products while managing medium to large engineering teams and aligning technical strategy with business goals.
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: Busines 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 domain 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
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
- * 4-year bachelor's degree (Preferred)
- * 10 years of experience in software development (Preferred)
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- 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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