Product Engineers (Java)

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
Software Engineer Senior Consultant II 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.

Job Summary

Software Engineers 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. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

**Please note we have multiple positions across various levels.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team's backlog.

Essential Skills

• A minimum of 3 years' experience developing software in different programming languages, and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages (eg Java/DB/NoSQL/REST/Full Stack)
• Experience in CI/CD for development and deployment aligning with best practices for security.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Experience in Containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in Cloud Native (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Experience in event based/stream processing (e.g. Kafka or similar)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not supervisory duties

Job posting end date: Monday the 10th of February 2025

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Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.

You'll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we've proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.

Good Hands. Greater Together.

What we offer

As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

We encourage a better work life balance and you'll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

Posting End Date:
10 February 2025