ENT-Software Engineer-Sr Cons II

Company: Allstate
Location: Northbrook
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why now is an exciting time to join our team. You'll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.
You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards - a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities. Plus, Allstate is changing how, when, and where we work-to lead us boldly into our future. We're empowering our employees to create better ways of working through more intentional use of communication and collaboration practices, processes and tools.
Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life's uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we've thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever's coming next - to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We've been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don't follow the trends. We set them. Job Summary
Allstate is looking for software engineers to join Agile Scrum development teams in building digital products to support the Allstate Agency Pay strategy. You will develop code all day, every day, on a full stack cloud platform using pivotal cloud foundry, leveraging test-driven development and continuous integration/delivery. You will work in a highly structured, paired programming environment and partner with Product Managers to translate our product strategy into highly functional, modular, and high-performance code. Key Responsibilities
About You

• You love to code and you're willing to fail fast and iterate to success
• You play well with others and have well developed communications skills. This is a paired programming environment so you have to be ready to be part of a team
• You have experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile methodologies
• You are proficient in several programming languages. You will be pairing with developers and need to be able to understand code well enough to ask/answer good questions. Job QualificationsStrong hands-on programming experience in Java development
  Java - Version 1.8, Java Core and Collections
  Spring Framework - Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring Web, Spring ORM, JPA and Hibernate
  Java Spring Batch - Remote chunking, parallel programming, Tasklet
  Web Services - Spring REST / JSON
  Object Oriented Programming and Design, UML, familiarity with Java design patterns
  Working knowledge of backend database integration/SQL querying, JMS, Web Services/APIs desirable
  Experience in Design and Implementing REST Services, Integration messaging systems like JMS MQ
  Exposure to test driven development and writing JUnits, Integration Tests
  Source Control Management (preferably Git/GitHub)
  Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, with the ability to transform documented use cases into prototypes and finished solutions.
  
  Role Expectations:
  Actively participate in the effort defining development best practices, participate in design/code reviews and process improvements
  Ability to break down business problems into solvable components to recommend solutions
  Ability to plan and prioritize requirements
  Collaborate and communicate well with others, strong written and verbal communication, comfortable with varying (and reactive) daily responsibilities
  Communicates effectively with individuals and teams in the organization to ensure high quality and timely completion of projects.
  Good interpersonal, verbal, listening and written communication skills
  Experience
  2 - 5 years
  
  The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
  
  Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands -.
  
  As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary - but that's just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you'll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate's benefits, visit allstate.jobs/benefits/
  
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