Product Engineer - Java Spring Boot

Allstate is a company focused on protecting families and their belongings from uncertainties. They are seeking a Product Engineer to architect and design digital products using modern technologies, ensuring the success of these products through effective management and achieving KPIs.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including MicroServices architectures
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (MongoDB, caching) and Kafka messaging
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc ) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools
• Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model
• Experience with the test driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage
• Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks
• 3-6 years of experience
• Experience using Python is a plus