Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. National General, part of The Allstate Corporation, is seeking a .NET Senior Software Engineer to implement applications and enhance software products. The role involves full stack development, collaboration within the team, and ensuring quality through test-driven development and continuous integration.
Responsibilities
- Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
- Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building product
- Participates in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind
- 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 XP practices
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
- Provides support for software products in user environments
- Leads and 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
- Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
Skills
- Great communicator
- Expert in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools)
- Microsoft Stacks knowledge and hands-on experience
- Azure Devops
- Azure Messaging System
- Azure Cloud Storage
- AWS Integration
- MS Dot Net Core (C#)
- JavaScript
- MS SQL Server
- Cosmos DB
- Mongo DB
- Influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality
- Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members
- Design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools
- Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management in partnership with Managing Engineer
- Identifies opportunities to pivot on stories or technical approach to achieve intended outcomes faster
- Holds decision rights on timing for what the engineers need to work on and works in partnership with Managing Engineer on ongoing prioritization
- Influences decisions on Managing Engineering
- Drives breaking work down for digital product inception ceremonies, ensuring technical approach and meaningful iterations align to targeted outcomes
- Demonstrates a solid understanding and application of enterprise standards, tools and patterns
- Has a deep understanding of integration points across upstream and downstream systems
- Responsible for coaching Product Engineers on systems thinking and design principles
- 3 or more years of experience
Benefits
- 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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