Cloud Services Lead Software Engineer

Allstate Foundation; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Software Engineer Lead Consultant to architect and design digital products, own production operations, and drive KPI success across distributed systems. You will lead backend development, ensure secure REST APIs, and guide a team in modern cloud environments.

Experience with Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, microservices, CI/CD, TDD, and container orchestration is preferred. The role emphasizes technical leadership, teamwork with product managers, and delivering scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development or technical leadership.
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Participate in inception and iteration planning with product manager.
• Participate in daily standups across teams.
• Coach the team in paired programming and test-driven development.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
• Provide system design and architecture leadership for team decisions.
• Monitor key systems, analyze logs and traces, and respond to outages.

Skills

AWS

Apache Kafka

API Development

Back-End Development

Cloud Platform

Code Reviews

Git

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Unit Testing

Problem Solving

Java

CI/CD

TDD

Education

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Gradle

Artifactory

Job description

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 Software Engineer Lead Consultant architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
• 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 system design and architecture leadership, collaborating with other members of the team and achieving joint ownership of the team's decisions.
• Participates in observing and monitoring key systems, analyzing logs and traces.
• Manages and leads responses to production outages or errors.

Required Skills

• Designing and developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tooling for documentation, versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management.
• Hands on experience making architectural decisions, designing, and delivering large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments, including microservices architectures.
• Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (SQL NoSQL, caching) and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Deep experience with TDD and writing meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for front to back coverage.
• Experience in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience using distributed version control systems (Git/GitHub), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc.) and Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience working in an XP/Agile environment, including pairing.
• Experience with problem-solving; e.g., analyzing performance bottlenecks, next-level resiliency, messaging pitfalls.
• Experience with production support in a large-scale distributed environment, using tools like Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch; sharing an on-call rotation is likely.

Preferred Skills

• Python, including AWS Lambda.
• Enterprise routing and load balancing, including AWS API Gateway.
• Experience in the insurance domain, or other finance-critical domains.
• Experience with payments or payment gateways.

Experience

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred).
• Demonstrated Technical Leadership.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, API Development, API Integration, Back-End Development, Cloud Platform, Code Reviews, Communication, Docker Container, Front-End Development, Git, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Java Software Development, Kubernetes, Load Testing, Microservices Architecture, Monitoring Tools, Problem Solving, RabbitMQ, Software Development, Spring Boot, Static Analysis, Unit Testing

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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