Full Stack Java Developer Allstate
Irving, TX

Job Description

Where good people build rewarding careers.

Think that working in the insurance field can't be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You'll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers' lives. We'll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you'll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you'll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.

Short Description

Allstate is starting an enterprise transformation of products, processes and technology that will drive consumer-centricity and accelerate our growth. The Enterprise Payments team vision is to provide a secure enterprise payment utility to support Allstate's evolving product portfolio, enabling customers to pay when, where and how they want. Our team is building an API-focused, simple-to-consume platform to transact payments for any product or service from entry through capture, settlement and reconciliation. We are looking for a full stack developer to join a dynamic team focused on creating innovative solutions.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

* Participate in executing the strategy, keeping the customer experience in mind
* Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps
* 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
* Provides support for software products in user environments
* Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
* Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team's backlog
* 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

Job Qualifications

Required:

* 2-4 years of software development (core languages: Java and JavaScript); preferably in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development (TDD)
* Strong verbal communication skills
* Ability to develop clean, well-designed code
* Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD); (Jenkins, Concourse CI and/or Gradle)
* Developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP) and APIs
* Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON)
* JavaScript framework (React.js)
* JavaSpring framework (Spring and Spring Boot)
* Front-end experience (HTML5, CSS3) developing responsive designed applications
* Source Control Management (preferably GitHub)
* Experience in working in IDE (Intellij)
* Strong understanding of testing patterns to support functional and performance tests

Preferred:

* Experience with Behavior Driven Development tools (Cucumber)
* Experience with unit test frameworks (Jest)
* Experience with Code Analyzer and scanning tools (Compliance Buddy, Veracode, Sonar Cube)
* Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments
* Experience designing applications in an iterative manner
* MS SQL Server database knowledge/experience
* Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Cloud Foundry