Product Engineer – Java Spring Boot w/ Full Stack Option
About the role
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. As a Product Engineer you will design, build, and support high quality digital products using modern engineering practices and tools. In this role, you will partner closely with product managers and fellow engineers to deliver scalable, cloud native, user-centered solutions. You will be accountable for the success of your digital product(s), from design and implementation through production support and performance management against pre-defined key metrics.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and enhance full stack software products
- Design and implement testing strategies to validate acceptance criteria
- Practice pair programming and test-driven development (TDD) as part of daily engineering work
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, supporting continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
- Collaborate with the team on system and application design, selecting the simplest and most effective technical solutions
- Participate in iteration planning, ensuring a shared understanding of backlog stories and technical requirements
- Actively engage in daily standups, cross-site collaboration, and product team ceremonies
- Contribute to and participate in retrospectives, identifying actionable improvements for the team and product
- Provide production support for software products
- Share knowledge and contribute to the growth of team and organizational engineering practices
- Collaborate with other digital product teams and clearly communicate technical designs
Requirements
3+ years experience in the following technologies:
- Strong proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x+ (Required for full stack)
- Experience in frontend engineering – ReactJS/AngularJS/Typescript (Required for full stack)
- Strong state management experience (Redux Toolkit or equivalent) (Required for full stack)
- Experience building responsive, accessible, data-driven User Experiences (Required for full stack)
- Working knowledge of Python (Preferred)
- Understanding of JVM and Application Performance Architecture/Management
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems
- Experience building microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka preferred) (Preferred)
- Understanding of cloud and hybrid environment(s), including Azure, AWS, and various on-premises systems
- Experience with relational/NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with schema standards (OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC) (Preferred)
- Understanding of MongoDB Performance Tuning
- DevOps & Infrastructure: CI/CD experience (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes
- Leverage Datadog or similar tools for application monitoring and troubleshooting
- Development Practices: Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Strong understanding of secure development
- Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment (Preferred)
- Understanding and ability to leverage, and or build, generative and agentic AI tooling to build solutions
Skills
- AngularJS
- Communication
- Docker (Software)
- Java (Programming Language)
- Java Spring
- Kubernetes
- Microservices Architecture