Software Engineer Lead Consultant

Allstate is a company focused on protecting families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. They are seeking a Software Engineer Lead Consultant to design, build, and support high-quality digital products using modern engineering practices and tools, while collaborating closely with product managers and fellow engineers.

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

Requirements:

• 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]
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems
• Experience building microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka preferred)
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases
• CI/CD experience (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes
• Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Strong understanding of secure development
• 5 or more years of experience
• Understanding of JVM and Application Performance Architecture/Management
• Working knowledge of Python
• Familiarity with schema standards (OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC)
• Understanding of MongoDB Performance Tuning
• Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
• Understanding and ability to leverage, and or build, generative and agentic AI tooling to build solutions