.NET Senior Software Engineer

National General, part of The Allstate Corporation, is seeking a .NET Senior Software Engineer to implement applications following 12-factor principles. The role involves owning the full stack of software products, developing frontends and backend services, and ensuring quality through test-driven development and continuous integration.

Responsibilities:

• Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building 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
• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Provides support for software products in user environments
• 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 iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog

Requirements:

• Great communicator
• Expert in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools)
• Microsoft Stacks knowledge and hands-on experience
• Azure Devops
• Azure Messaging System
• Azure Cloud Storage
• AWS Integration
• MS Dot Net Core (C#)
• JavaScript
• MS SQL Server
• Cosmos DB
• Mongo DB
• Influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality
• Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members
• Design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools
• Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management in partnership with Managing Engineer
• Identifies opportunities to pivot on stories or technical approach to achieve intended outcomes faster
• Holds decision rights on timing for what the engineers need to work on and works in partnership with Managing Engineer on ongoing prioritization
• Influences decisions on Managing Engineering
• Drives breaking work down for digital product inception ceremonies, ensuring technical approach and meaningful iterations align to targeted outcomes
• Demonstrates a solid understanding and application of enterprise standards, tools and patterns
• Has a deep understanding of integration points across upstream and downstream systems
• Responsible for coaching Product Engineers on systems thinking and design principles
• 3 or more years of experience