Product Engineer Senior Consultant (Hybrid)

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.  Your role in the team As part of Allstate’s future growth plans, we are excited to offer this opportunity to talented individuals looking for a new challenge. In this role, the Engineer serves as a member of the new Allstate Representative Placement Service (ARPS) product team in the PLT area. The team is tasked with creating a new PAAS-based Service for Agent assignments for ASC policies while supporting any Classic policies until migration is complete. The ARPS Service will be a modern Java / Spring Boot / PAAS hosted version of the existing Windows based Agent Assignment Service in production today. The role requires the successful candidates to practice and be the champion of Outcome Based Delivery utilizing Continuous Integration & Deployment practices. The Engineer develops applications following 12-factor principles to build out products through continual enhancements using a full stack of software products. In the role you will leverage test driven development, CI/CD, and Allstate developed tools and frameworks to ensure the timely delivery of the new ARPS Product. The Engineer will actively participate in the decision-making process of the Product Teams helping ensure that the most appropriate technology and relevant design is chosen to meet user needs with maintainability and reusability, while working with other team members to create an environment of continuous learning, and constantly challenging and stretching the knowledge of the team.

Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has  a common understanding  of each story and chores in a team’s   backlog .       Understands   and can implement secure coding practices within products .       Participate in executing the strategy, keeping the   customer   needs and wants in mind .       Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps .       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 .         Support software products in user environments .         Participates in knowledge   sharing, and   contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team .       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 .           Essential Skills :     All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.     A minimum of 3+ years of working with   Java   and   Spring Boot .       Experience designing, implementing, and supporting   Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)   pipelines for distributed applications.       Experience applying   Test-Driven Development (TDD)   practices and using testing frameworks such as   JUnit ,   Mockito , or equivalent testing technologies.       Experience working within Agile product teams and contributing to technical design and architecture discussions.       Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions.             Desirable Skills :     Experience developing applications using   C# .     Experience with backend system