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

The Product Engineer, Lead Consultant contributes to the development of full‑stack applications using modern, AI-augmented engineering practices. This role works collaboratively within a XP agile product team to deliver high‑quality software, support technical decisions, and maintain a stable, scalable codebase. This position does not include supervisory responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance full‑stack features in alignment with established architecture and design guidelines.

• Implement backend services using Java and Spring Boot, and frontend components using React.

• Participate in daily standups, backlog refinement, iteration planning, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering peers to clarify requirements and contribute technical input.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and support reliable deployment practices.

• Write, review, and maintain high‑quality, testable code using TDD, pair programming, and code review practices.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across the application stack.

• Support documentation and knowledge‑sharing activities across the team.

• Participate in discussions that influence technical direction and best practices within the team.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (Preferred)

• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot with React and modern front‑end development practices

• Strong SQL experience with MSSQL, ORACLE, or equivalent (queries, stored procedures, schema design)

• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

• Solid understanding of object‑oriented programming, design principles (SOLID), and Twelve-factor app

• Understanding of secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP Top 10, input validation, authentication/authorization patterns) and the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for security and correctness

• Proven use of paired programming and TDD

• Version control using Git

• Unit and integration testing (e.g., JUnit, Mockito, Jest, React Testing Library)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Familiarity with Docker or containerized environments

• Understanding of cloud environments (Kubernetes, AWS,)

• Frontend fundamentals: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code assistants) for accelerating development workflows

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (e.g., Apache Kafka)

• Ability to independently architect and deliver working features end-to-end with velocity

Desired Skills

• ORM experience (e.g., Hibernate/JPA)

• Experience with frontend state management tools

• Basic performance monitoring and optimization

• Experience working in a microservices or distributed system environment

• Experience leveraging generative AI and LLMs to enhance development productivity, automate workflows, or build intelligent features

• Secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault) and database migration tooling (e.g., Flyway)

• Serverless Functions (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, or similar)

• GitHub Actions (advanced workflows, automation, environment strategies)

• GitOps principles or tooling (e.g., Argo CD, Flux)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No supervisory responsibilities. This role is an individual contributor (IC).

Skills

AWS Lambda, AWS Lambda, Back-End Development, Codebase, Code Reviews, Coding Practices, CSS3, Data Query, Design Principles, Docker (Software), Engineering Practices, Git, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Vault, Hibernate ORM, HTML5, Java, Java Persistence API (JPA), JavaScript, JUnit Testing Framework, Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, Mockito, OWASP Top 10 {+ 14 more}