Remote Java Lead Engineer - Backend & Microservices

Allstate Insurance Company; Illinois; On-site; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop & peripherals provided

Connectivity reimbursement for home/hy

Comprehensive technology setup

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Company seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and maintain modern backend services and APIs for enterprise claims systems. You will own production applications, drive engineering best practices, and shape technical direction to reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.

Join a team that collaborates with product and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, improve customer experiences, and optimize costs with microservices and robust pipelines.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of software development experience with Java/J2EE.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices with Spring stack.
• Strong OO design, patterns, and modern dev practices.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for enterprise solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to architecture of scalable microservices and distributed systems.
• Apply best practices, testing, reviews, and automated testing.

Skills

Java

J2EE

Spring Boot

Spring Data

Spring IoC

Spring Security

Spring AOP

REST APIs

Swagger/OpenAPI

Microservices

CI/CD

DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Datadog

TDD

Testing

Agile

SQL

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

SonarQube

Gradle

Maven

Datadog

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Allstate Insurance Company seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and maintain modern backend services and APIs for enterprise claims systems. You will own production applications, drive engineering best practices, and shape technical direction to reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.

Join a team that collaborates with product and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, improve customer experiences, and optimize costs with microservices and robust pipelines.