Cloud Services Lead Software Engineer

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.
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders.
• Serves as an expert on or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations.
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• 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.

Experience

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, API Development, API Integration, Back-End Development, Cloud Platform, Code Reviews, Communication, Database Administration, Data Management, Docker Container, Front-End Development, Git, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Leadership, Load Testing, Mentorship, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Monitoring Tools, Problem Solving, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot {+ 1 more}

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. that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. that encourages you to challenge the status quo. 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.

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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.