Senior Product Engineer, Java Spring Boot

Role Overview

• The Product Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems.
• They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software.
• They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.
• Product Engineers at Allstate are considered Software Engineers.
• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
• Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs.
• Participate in performance improvements and tech review meetings.
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders.
• Serves as an expert on one or more business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations.
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.

Requirements

• 7+ Years
• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot
• Hands-on experience architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud
• Experience working with Generative AI APIs and/or open-source models
• Experience with AI Agents, LLM orchestration, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (MongoDB, caching) and Kafka messaging
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc.) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools
• Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model
• Experience with Python is a plus
• Experience with the test driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage
• Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Gradle
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Maven
• MongoDB
• Python
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities