Software Engineer Lead Consultant

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

As a Product Engineer you will design, build, and support high quality digital products using modern engineering practices and tools. In this role, you will partner closely with product managers and fellow engineers to deliver scalable, cloud native, user-centered solutions. You will be accountable for the success of your digital product(s), from design and implementation through production support and performance management against pre-defined key metrics

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance full stack software products
• Design and implement testing strategies to validate acceptance criteria
• Practice pair programming and test-driven development (TDD) as part of daily engineering work
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, supporting continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
• Collaborate with the team on system and application design, selecting the simplest and most effective technical solutions
• Participate in iteration planning, ensuring a shared understanding of backlog stories and technical requirements
• Actively engage in daily standups, cross-site collaboration, and product team ceremonies
• Contribute to and participate in retrospectives, identifying actionable improvements for the team and product
• Provide production support for software products
• Share knowledge and contribute to the growth of team and organizational engineering practices
• Collaborate with other digital product teams and clearly communicate technical designs

Core Technologies & Frameworks

• Strong proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x+
• [Required for full stack] Experience in frontend engineering – ReactJS/AngularJS/Typescript
• [Required for full stack] Strong state management experience (Redux Toolkit or equivalent)
• [Required for full stack] Experience building responsive, accessible, data-driven User Experiences [ Required for full stack]
• Understanding of JVM and Application Performance Architecture/Management
• [Preferred] Working knowledge of Python
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.

Architecture & System Design

• Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems
• Experience building microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka preferred)
• Understanding of cloud and hybrid environment(s), including Azure, AWS, and various on-premises systems

Data Management

• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with schema standards (OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC)
• [Preferred] Understanding of MongoDB Performance Tuning

DevOps & Infrastructure

• CI/CD experience (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes
• Leverage Datadog or similar tools for application monitoring and troubleshooting

Development Practices

• Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Strong understanding of secure development
• Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
• [Preferred] Understanding and ability to leverage, and or build, generative and agentic AI tooling to build solutions

Experience

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

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Skills

Computer Science, Design, Java, Pair Programming, 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.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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