Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

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State Farm is hiring a full-stack Lead Software Engineer to support and enhance customer-facing applications used during the claims process. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product and business stakeholders to deliver product-led improvements—owning features end-to-end across the stack, from Angular/TypeScript frontends to Java and Go backends—and helping ensure reliable application performance in production. These are customer-facing applications in the digital channel for Repair, Photo Estimating, and Digital Payment Enrollment. You’ll join a high-performing, fast-paced team supporting a variety of technologies on AWS (native) and ROSA.

Qualifications

• Full-stack engineering experience with strong front-end and back-end capabilities
• Experience building and supporting customer-facing applications and delivering features end-to-end
• Proficiency with AWS Native/ROSA environments
• Strong skills in TypeScript and Angular for front-end development
• Strong skills in Java and Go (GoLang) for back-end services and APIs
• Ability to apply advanced engineering practices to design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using industry-adopted languages and frameworks
• Experience diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex technical issues
• Strong command of software engineering concepts including: security, containers, version control, CI/CD, unit testing, and core programming principles (classes/functions, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of programming and databases (e.g., SQL and NoSQL) and how data is modeled, moved, and validated
• Advanced understanding of compute environments such as Linux and public cloud (including containers)
• Demonstrated ability to stay current on technology trends and apply best practices to influence product solution direction
• Experience working in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum/Kanban), collaborating cross-functionally and delivering iteratively
• Strong product and quality orientation—understands product design and testing strategies to ensure reliable outcomes
• Ability to navigate the broader organization effectively and collaborate with stakeholders across teams
• Demonstrated leadership through mentorship, technical guidance, training, and/or delegating work as needed
• Capable of managing multiple simultaneous stories and/or leading a single complex initiative
• Demonstrated commitment to exceptional user experience in design and delivery
• Experience engaging with internal technical communities (e.g., dev guilds) and participating in knowledge-sharing
• Familiarity with and ability to leverage inner source practices to improve code discoverability, reuse, and cross-enterprise collaboration

Benefits

Potential starting salary range: $110,000 - $142,000
Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary
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