Senior Product Engineer (Java/Spring Boot)

Allstate Insurance Company

$100K — $170K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot and related tools for documentation and service discovery.
  • Hands-on experience in architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
  • Knowledge of web and API security practices including OAuth and OWASP.
  • Experience in backend development, database management, and Kafka messaging systems.
  • Familiarity with distributed version control systems (Git) and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
  • Experience in Agile environments and paired programming methodologies.
  • Bonus: familiarity with Python and test-driven development.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in inception and iteration planning with technical input alongside the product manager.
  • Engage in daily standups across teams to ensure effective communication.
  • Facilitate retrospectives, fostering a culture of feedback and collaboration.
  • Collaborate on high-level and low-level designs for components and systems.
  • Contribute to performance enhancement discussions and tech review meetings.
  • Practice daily paired programming and test-driven development to enhance code quality.
  • Establish and support continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive technology setup including laptop, monitors, and peripherals.
  • Monthly reimbursement for home internet costs for remote work.
  • Support for a dedicated home workspace free from distractions.
Full Job Description
The Senior Product Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) 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 becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. Product Engineers at Allstate are considered Software Engineers.

In this role, you will support the Enterprise Payments organization, which is responsible for ensuring Allstate customers can seamlessly process a wide range of payment solutions.

The internal Allstate job title used for this role is Software Engineer Lead Consultant.

Key Responsibilities
  • Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
  • Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
  • Participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
  • Collaborate with team in high-level and low-level component and system designs
  • Collaborate in performance improvements and tech review meetings
  • Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
  • Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
  • Support software products in user environments
  • Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team


Qualifications
  • 5 years or more experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST-docs, Open API spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways and REACT is a plus.
  • Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including Micro Services architectures.
  • Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
  • Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (SQL, caching) and Kafka messaging.
  • Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (Git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, NPM, Artifactory, etc.) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools.
  • Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model.
  • Experience with Python is a plus.
  • Experience with the Test-Driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage.
  • Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks.


Experience
  • 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)


Supervisory Responsibilities
  • This job does not have supervisory duties

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Skills
Collaborative Development, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Continuous Integration Tools, Git, Java (Programming Language), Mentorship, Microservices Architecture, Pair Programming, RESTful APIs, Software Architectures, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter.

Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.

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