Senior Software Engineer

Our leading-edge Agile team in the engineering group is looking for a motivated and energetic Senior Software Engineer who is eager to learn and make big changes to our mission critical applications. This is an exciting time to join, as we continue to rapidly expand and look for new ways to improve our architecture and solution offerings to serve the millions of customers around the globe. Your opportunities for achievement are limitless with SquareTrade/Allstate. We embrace a fast-paced Agile XP environment where we practice pair programming and TDD. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the engineering leads, product and design teams, as well as other developers to deliver applications which are scalable, secure, robust and highly performing. We adopt microservices architecture, distributed technologies, latest frontend frameworks and sophisticated monitoring tools.
Key responsibilities
Participates in iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input
Designs, develops, and maintains secure, scalable, and high-performance microservices and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, ElastiCache)
Performs continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines on AWS and Microsoft Azure
Monitors in production and improves system performance, reliability, and scalability
Adopts XP methodology and practices paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) daily
Participates in daily standups, code reviews and retrospectives
Bachelors in Computer Science or related majors is REQUIRED
5+ years of professional software development experience with a successful track record
Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices framework
Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writes high-quality, testable code
Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
Experience with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github
Familiarity with build pipeline such as Jenkins
Nice to have
Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, and on-prem systems
Familiarity with web related technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, CSS
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps practices
Experience in the warranty, insurance, fintech, or e-commerce domains

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No