Application Developer Consultant I

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
We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Product Engineer to join our dynamic team. The Product Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, and enhancement of our products. The role is pivotal in ensuring product agility, quality, and user satisfaction. In this Agile environment, you'll own the end-to-end development of backend services, following test driven development and XP practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team 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
• Provides support for software products in user environments
• Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability in all forums including ECC and SWAT calls
• Provides input into the design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way
• Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices

• Strong understanding of computer science concepts, object-oriented design principles
• Hands-on experience with developing software in Java and J2EE technologies such as Spring Boot
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs, database (relational, NoSQL, caching), building complex queries, implementation and optimization
• Knowledge and experience utilizing continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, preferred tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Gradle, Maven, etc.
• Experience working in an Extreme Programming (XP); experienced working in a paired programming/engineering model
• Experience in Test Driven Development; including knowledge and experience in testing frameworks like JUnit, mockito and other like technologies
• Experience on API Testing via Postman,Bruno and SoapUI
• Utilize quality and security scan tools such as Sonar, Fortify and Contrast, or similar
• Ensure code and processes adhere to clean code practices and industry/application best practices
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or similar tools
• Cloud knowledge with technologies such as AWS, Azure or other cloud technologies

• 4 years bachelor's degree (Preferred)
• 6 or more years of experience (Preferred)

• This job does not have supervisory duties.