
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team backlog
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
Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps
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
Provides support for software products in user environments
Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability in all forums including ECC and SWAT calls
Provides input into the design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices
Hybrid role- 1 day a week in Dallas TX office, and remote 4 days a week
Skills needed
Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
Hands-on experience with developing software in Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot
Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs, database (relational, NoSQL, caching), building complex queries, implementation and optimization
Knowledge and experience utilizing continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Gradle, Maven, etc.
Experience working in an Extreme Programming (XP); experienced working in a paired programming/engineering model
Experience in Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like JUnit, mockito and other like technologies
Experience on API Testing via Postman,Bruno and SoapUI
Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast, or similar
Ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices
Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or similar tools
Cloud knowledge with technologies such as AWS, Azure or other cloud technologies
Education and Experience:
4 years bachelor's degree (Preferred not required)