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 DescriptionThe Software Engineer Lead Consultant is a hands-on, full-stack developer responsible for the design, development, and delivery of features within our AI-enabled digital product. This role applies a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. Software Engineers develop and support their application in lower environments and support production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.
Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you will implement the strategic vision and architecture for our digital product, which includes cloud-native and Generative AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities- Full Stack Feature Delivery: Design, develop, test, and deploy features across the entire application stack, ensuring a high-quality user experience and robust, high-performance APIs.
- Develop and maintain scalable, cloud-native microservices primarily using Java/Spring Boot (for core APIs), integrating them with messaging queues (Kafka/Azure Service Bus) and Python (for AI).
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
- Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
- Ensure code integrity through unit, integration, and performance testing, rigorous code reviews, and adherence to security best practices.
Key Skills & Qualifications- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Full Stack Developer in an agile environment.
- Proficiency in Java/Spring Boot for developing highly scalable backend microservices.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native development, microservices architecture, 12-factor application principles, REST principles and security best practices.
- Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, open-air spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, caching), messaging (Kafka) and Kubernetes development, implementation, and optimization.
- Experience with relational (MS SQL Server) and/or NoSQL databases (MongoDB/Document DB).
- Working knowledge of LLM integration concepts like Prompt Engineering, RAG or model serving pipelines.
- Familiarity with MLOps concepts, CI/CD, and production monitoring in a cloud environment AWS or Azure.
Our BusinessAllstate Financial Services helps Allstate customers build holistic financial wellbeing for their families with life, retirement and investment solutions to realize their hopes and dreams. By making our sales force more efficient with the help of data driven decision making.
Allstate Financial Services offers a robust portfolio of solutions to help customers build and protect their financial futures. We deliver a seamless customer experience with innovative processes and technologies through a network of best-in-class financial professionals and carriers.
We demonstrate our core values through integrity, accountability, resilience, and perseverance. We are industry leading financial experts who put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We value each other. We seek feedback and take appropriate action. Our collective success is achieved through collaborating across all areas of responsibility within AFS and Allstate, prioritizing the customer experience.
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SkillsAgile Methodology, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Native, Code Reviews, Java, Large Language Models (LLMs), Microservices Architecture, Software Development, Spring Boot
CompensationCompensation offered for this role is 95,700.00 - 170,925.00 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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