Allstate is a company dedicated to protecting families and their belongings. They are seeking Software Engineers at all levels to build and enhance digital products using modern engineering practices and principles, with responsibilities ranging from hands-on development to technical leadership and strategic partnership.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in iteration planning to ensure shared understanding of stories and backlog items
- Engage in daily stand-ups across site, cross-site, and product teams
- Contribute to retrospectives and implement feedback to improve team performance
- Design, develop, test, and maintain applications across the full stack with guidance as needed
- Practice paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) to deliver high-quality code
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery practices
- Troubleshoot and support software products in user environments
- Collaborate closely with team members and actively participate in knowledge sharing
- Apply foundational engineering principles to solve well-defined problems
- Execute against product and enterprise strategies with a strong customer-centric mindset
- Contribute to technical decision-making, balancing simplicity, scalability, and performance
- Work more independently on complex features and system components
- Mentor and support junior engineers to elevate overall team capability
- Actively contribute to team knowledge and engineering best practices
- Significant contributions to inceptions, injecting technical strategy into backlogs
- Partner with product managers and stakeholders to align engineering and business strategies across products
- Serve as a domain expert and advocate for modern technology stacks and architectural best practices
- Drive cross-product collaboration and influence engineering direction across teams
- Coach engineers in TDD, paired programming, and agile practices
- Lead retrospectives with a focus on continuous improvement and team effectiveness
- Set technical direction and guide complex system design decisions
- Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching (no direct people management required)
Requirements:
- 1+ years of experience for Consultant II
- 3+ years of experience for Sr. Consultant II
- 5+ years of experience with demonstrated technical leadership for Lead
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design
- Must have experience working with Java/Spring, JavaScript, and React
- Backend development experience including APIs, databases (relational/NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems
- Frontend experience building responsive web or mobile applications
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices