Managing Engineer_Java Backend Developer

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.

Job Description

The Managing Engineer (Associate Manager) puts the system user at the center of everything they do; ensuring that users receive the most value out of the products being developed. The Managing Engineer develops test driven code all day and every day. They own and manage running their application in production and is accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance indicators. The Managing Engineer selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates small to medium teams. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. This person assists in defining, implementing and prioritizing IT policies, procedures, and best practices. The Managing Engineer influences team and business results.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups
• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager
• Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day to day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities
• Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
• Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product
• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behavior and coaching of all lab roles.
• Managing Engineer develops code for intermediate to complex modules, participates in design reviews, conducts code reviews, creates automated test scripts and participates in testing reviews, and resolves moderate to complex defects.
• Evaluate detailed business, functional, and high-level technical requirements including recovery, security, and audit.
• Design and build detailed technical components with high-level architecture
• Recognize and understand use of design patterns for intermediate to complex applications.
• Apply reusability and future state architectures.
• Participates and provides feedback in design reviews.
• Complete component design documents on assigned projects.
• Participate and provide feedback in design reviews.
• Develop code for intermediate to complex modules, following documentation and development standards.
• Create enhanced technical documentation and implement changes.
• Conduct timely structured code reviews to ensure standards and systems interoperability.
• Review and critique team members’ code.
• Create accurate test plans, conditions, and data. Participate in testing reviews.
• Conduct basic levels of module and integration testing according to process standards. Track and resolve defects.
• Assists Quality Control (QC) personnel with functional tests.
• Identify support issues and initiate action to resolve the problem.
• Provide technical assistance. Analyze and resolve problems.
• Execute change management activities supporting production deployment, Quality Control, and Environment Management.
  
  

Primary Skills

11+ years Java development with hand-on coding experience using Java 17+ and higher versions.

Good experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Spring boot, JPA, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring batch, Kafka and RESTful Web Services.

J2EE Design Patterns, Algorithms and Optimizations, Object-Oriented design.

Experience working in Agile product teams.

Experience with pair programming will be an added advantage.

Experience with Test Driven Development.

Provide technical expertise in delivering/supporting solutions for moderate to complex business requirements.

Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, DB2, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), ability to write SQL statements & scripts.

Should be able to perform & accept code reviews, code linting & formatting, code debugging, error handling and build activities.

Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, Jenkins etc.

Should know the techniques and concepts (like code coverage and security scans), security design / testing etc.

Knowledge around API gateways / proxies etc.

Good experience in Splunk debugging and analyzing production issues.

Experience using APM tools.

Good understanding into Memory profiling, Garbage Collection Systems and Multi-threading.

Good understanding of the working of Kubernetes and Docker containers.

Experience

11+ years Java development with hand-on coding experience using Java 8+ and higher versions.

Good experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Spring boot, JPA, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring batch, Kafka and RESTful Web Services.

J2EE Design Patterns, Algorithms and Optimizations, Object-Oriented design.

Experience working in Agile product teams.

Experience with pair programming will be an added advantage.

Experience with Test Driven Development.

Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, DB2, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), ability to write SQL statements & scripts.

Shift Timing

11:30 AM to 8:00 PM, or

1:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.
  
  

Primary Skills

Apache Kafka, Backend Design, Back-End Development, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Java, Java Frameworks, Java Multithreading, JavaScript, Java Spring, Microservice Framework, Spring Boot

Shift Time

General Shift (India)

Recruiter Info

Diksha Prasad

dprbd@allstate.com

About Allstate

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.