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
This position will be focused on modernizing and maintaining .NET and ReactJS applications that have been developed at Allstate for the automation of various systems management and software delivery workflows for Microsoft platforms (known internally as APAD, Alchemist, Connect Anywhere).
The Product Engineer will 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.
Key responsibilities
Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog
Participate in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind
Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps
Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product
Support software products in user environments
Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
Essential Skills
All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Full Stack Developer, with a primary focus on C# and .NET technologies.
Proficiency in Visual Studio, including ASP.NET, C#, and JavaScript.
Experience with Visual Studio for .NET Core development.
Strong knowledge of ReactJS for front-end development.
Desirable Skills
Strong experience in system integration using REST APIs and Microsoft Graph API.
Ability to serialize and deserialize JSON data in C#, and parse JSON REST API responses in C# and Go (Golang).
Proficiency in Go (Golang) and familiarity with the Electron framework for desktop application development.
Solid understanding of CI/CD processes and tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Configuration Manager, Intune, and Microsoft Graph API for enterprise device and application management.
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