Allstate
Allstate
Allstate provides insurance and protection products across home, auto, device, and identity coverage. Its work centers on helping customers manage risk, protect their finances, and navigate unexpected events with greater confidence. The company also highlights community involvement and sustainability as part of its broader approach to serving customers and contributing to positive social impact.

Lead Software Engineer, Cloud Services - Texas Remote

Lead the architecture and operation of Allstate’s distributed insurance technology platforms in a remote Texas role. Use Java, AWS, microservices, CI/CD, testing, and production operations to deliver reliable cloud services.

Description

  • Architect digital products with modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems
  • Apply scientific and technical expertise to software design, implementation, testing, and documentation
  • Own production applications and drive digital product success against KPIs
  • Contribute technical input to backlogs during inception and iteration planning with the product manager
  • Take part in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
  • Participate in retrospectives and promote empathetic feedback
  • Coach team members and lead paired programming and test-driven development practices
  • Build and maintain continuous integration, delivery, and deployment pipelines
  • Lead system design and architecture while collaborating on shared technical decisions
  • Monitor critical systems and analyze logs and traces
  • Lead responses to production outages and errors

Requirements

  • Design and develop REST APIs with Java Spring Boot, including documentation, versioning, service discovery and registration, testing, and management tools
  • Make architectural decisions and design and deliver large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments, including microservices architectures
  • Design and implement backend services involving SQL and NoSQL databases, caching, and event-driven systems such as Kafka
  • Apply deep test-driven development experience to meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across the full stack
  • Use web and API security practices covering authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
  • Work with Git or GitHub, artifact management, build and packaging tools such as Maven, Gradle, npm, and Artifactory, plus Jenkins or comparable CI/CD tools
  • Use containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
  • Work effectively in an XP or Agile environment that includes pairing
  • Solve technical problems involving performance bottlenecks, resilience, and messaging pitfalls
  • Support production in large-scale distributed environments with tools such as Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch; participation in an on-call rotation is likely
  • Use Python, including AWS Lambda, preferred
  • Work with enterprise routing and load balancing, including AWS API Gateway, preferred
  • Bring experience in insurance or another finance-critical domain, preferred
  • Bring experience with payments or payment gateways, preferred
  • Have five or more years of experience, preferred
  • Demonstrate technical leadership
  • Submit to a background investigation if offered the position
  • Note that Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position
  • Maintain a dedicated private workspace free from distractions with suitable desk and seating
  • Have reliable internet service with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload

Benefits

  • Receive a comprehensive technology setup with a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse
  • Receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs when eligible to work from home

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