Software Engineer

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

Software Engineer Senior Consultant II implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. They own the full stack of software products, developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. They leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. They actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
• 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 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
• Provides input into the architecture and design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way

Key Responsibilities (cont.)

• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building product
• Provides technical feedback and performs code reviews for other team members.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Provides support to users for software products in non-production environments
• Coaches more junior team members around the process, different technologies and practices

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Education and Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Back-End Technologies: c#, WebForms, Ajax, NUnit/Moq for testing, micro services and related patterns, Entity Framework 3.1, WinServices, WCF, .Net Core 8, .Net 4.7/4.8, Nuget packages and SDK
• Frontend Technologies: html, css, javascript, JQuery, AngularJS, NG Zoro, Angular, Type Script, Jasmine/Karma for Angular front-end testing, Razor/Blazor Components

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.

Functional Skills:

• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
• Basic understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, networking, databases, security, and analytics
• Experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Actual experience developing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines for distributed apps
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP Top 10, OpenID, and SAML
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (GIT).
• Understanding and experience on Agile – Scrum process and methodology.
• Understanding and experience on Microsoft Azure DevOps, Application Insights

Functional Skills (cont.)

• Ability to write technical details for user stories assigned to self or other developers on the team.
• Ability to write technical notes and hints for quality assurance engineers on user stories that helps them write their test cases.
• Efficiency in writing, troubleshooting and performance tuning of Microsoft SQL and LINQ queries and complex database operations.
• Good knowledge and experience on writing unit tests and integration tests
• Good experience with Json and Xml data types and serializers.
• API Testing via Postman, SoapUI, PowerShell scripts
• Familiarity with SSIS and SSRS is a plus

Notes:

Compensation offered for this role is $70,500.00-$125,625.00 per year and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Good Hands. Greater Together. ℠

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate’s benefits, visit https://www.allstate.jobs/benefits/

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