Lead Software Engineer – Cloud Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Design and architect digital products utilizing contemporary tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems.

• Leverage scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and expertise for software design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

• Take ownership of applications in production and ensure the success of digital products by meeting KPIs.

• Engage in inception and iteration planning meetings, contributing technical insights to backlogs in collaboration with the product manager.

• Attend daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.

• Participate in retrospectives, fostering a culture of empathetic feedback.

• Mentor the team and facilitate daily paired programming and test-driven development practices.

• Set up and maintain continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.

• Provide leadership in system design and architecture, working closely with team members to achieve shared decision-making.

• Monitor key systems, analyzing logs and traces for performance insights.

• Oversee and lead responses to production outages or errors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in designing and developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tools for documentation, versioning, service discovery/registration, testing, and management.

• Practical experience in making architectural decisions, designing, and delivering large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments, particularly with microservices architectures.

• Proficiency in backend development design and implementation, databases (SQL, NoSQL, caching), and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka).

• Extensive knowledge of TDD and the ability to write significant unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for comprehensive coverage.

• Familiarity with web and API security concepts, including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.

• Experience with distributed version control systems (Git/GitHub), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, npm, Artifactory, etc.), and Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Experience working in an XP/Agile environment, including pairing methodologies.

• Strong problem-solving skills, including analyzing performance bottlenecks, enhancing resiliency, and addressing messaging challenges.

• Background in production support within a large-scale distributed environment, utilizing tools like Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch; sharing an on-call rotation is likely.

• Proficiency in Python, including AWS Lambda (preferred).

• Knowledge of enterprise routing and load balancing, including AWS API Gateway (preferred).

• Experience in the insurance sector or other finance-critical domains (preferred).

• Familiarity with payment systems or payment gateways (preferred).

• A minimum of 5 years of experience (preferred).

• Proven Technical Leadership abilities.

• Candidates selected for this position will be required to undergo a background investigation.

• Allstate typically does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this role.

• A dedicated, private workspace that is free from distractions, with suitable desk and seating arrangements.

• Reliable internet connection with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

• Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs for employees eligible to work from home.