Senior Product Engineer (Java/Spring Boot)

Allstate; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is hiring a Senior Product Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) to architect and deliver digital products. You will own production deployments, drive KPI success, and support the Enterprise Payments domain.

Responsibilities include planning with product managers, designing scalable services, and leading continuous delivery practices in a collaborative, Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building REST APIs in Java Spring Boot with API docs (Swagger/OpenAPI).
• Experience designing large-scale distributed cloud applications (microservices).
• Strong web security knowledge: OAuth, OpenID, SAML & OWASP guidelines.
• Backend design, SQL, caching, Kafka messaging, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Participate in inceptions and planning with product manager, providing technical input.
• Design high-level and low-level components and systems for scalable apps.
• Drive performance improvements and tech reviews across teams.
• Practice paired programming and test-driven development.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and production support for software products.
• Collaborate in knowledge sharing to grow the team’s expertise.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

Distributed systems

REST APIs

OAuth

OpenID

SAML

Git

CI/CD

Kafka

Jenkins

React

Swagger/OpenAPI

Maven

Gradle

NPM

Artifactory

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

Maven

Gradle

NPM

Artifactory

Jenkins

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 Senior Product Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) 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. Product Engineers at Allstate are considered Software Engineers. In this role, you will support the Enterprise Payments organization, which is responsible for ensuring Allstate customers can seamlessly process a wide range of payment solutions. The internal Allstate job title used for this role is Software Engineer Lead Consultant.

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.
• Collaborate with team in high-level and low-level component and system designs.
• Collaborate in performance improvements and tech review meetings.
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Support software products in user environments.
• Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team.

Qualifications

• 5 years or more experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST-docs, Open API spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways and REACT is a plus.
• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including Micro Services 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 (SQL, 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 Python is a plus.
• Experience with the Test-Driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage.
• Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks.
• Experience 5 or more years of experience (Preferred).

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

• Collaborative Development
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integrations
• Continuous Integration Tools
• Git
• Java (Programming Language)
• Mentorship
• Microservices Architecture
• Pair Programming
• RESTful APIs
• Software Architectures
• Software Development
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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.

Why join us

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.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs. When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload. To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter. Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.

About Us

At Allstate, we work hard to help people live a good life every day. Allstaters are dedicated to serving clients, customers, and communities, which allows employees to find meaning and value in their work. Allstate offers an environment that fosters innovative thinking where you’ll be able to explore your ideas and feel proud of the work you do. Allstate helps protect nearly 16 million households with auto, home, life, and retirement products. We want every professional connected to Allstate to be committed to giving our customers the best and that means finding the best talent. We want you to be our next great addition.