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 Sr Full Stack Software Engineer implements 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 AND EXPERIENCE:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• 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
• 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 with modern JavaScript tools such as React, Redux, Webpack, Babel, NPM, and similar technologies.

SKILLS

Caching, Computer Science, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Java, JavaScript, Microsoft .NET, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Pair Programming, Python (Programming Language), Ruby (Programming Language)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in the team’s backlog.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps.
• 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.