Software Engineer-Sr Cons I

at  Allstate

Integon is a part of The Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. It’s how we’ve become industry leaders in property and casualty insurance servicing. We support our insurance company affiliates by offering property and casualty insurance products inclusive of personal auto, homeowners, RV, motorcycle, small business auto insurance and more.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Software Engineer Sr Consultant I implement applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. They own the full stack of software products; developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. They leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. They actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs.

EDUCATION

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

EXPERIENCE

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

• Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
• Experience in responsive web front end / single page application development using modular JavaScript including apps targeted for mobile devices
• Hands on experience on modern JavaScript tools such as Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Gulp, NPM, Bower, Browserify, Grunt and similar technologies
• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
• Experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages, including but not limited to Java (Spring), .NET, Ruby, Python, Golang, and Javascript

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
• Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps
• Participate in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
• Support software products in user environments
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products