Product Engineer (Remote - Home Based Worker)

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

The Product Engineer 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs
• Participate in performance improvements and tech review meetings
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using 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

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

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

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including microservices architectures and 12-factor principles
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring boot, including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, openapi spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus
• Experience developing software using front-end frameworks (React.js is a plus) including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model and server-side frameworks (ex: Spring boot, Node.js etc)
• Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new languages, including but not limited to JavaScript, Java (Spring),  Ruby, Python, Golang, and JavaScript
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
• Experience in responsive web front end / single page application development using modular JavaScript including apps targeted for mobile devices
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc ) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TravisCI, Concourse, Bamboo, GoCD).
• Actual experience working in an eXtreme Programming (XP) or agile environment; experienced working in a paired programming/engineering model
• Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks
• Experience with the test driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage

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Skills

Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented

Compensation

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

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